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Mirro Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.0MHealth$93kArts & Culture$63kEducation$23kCommunity Improvement$6kYouth Development$6kInternational$3kReligion$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $6k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mirro Family Donor Advised Fund$1,014,110
University of Saint Francis$5,000
HonorHealth Foundation$726
Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HonorHealth Foundation: $5k → 11%Navajo Nation: $500 → 32%Threshold Repertory Theatre: $500 → 12%CARE: $2k → 13%Northeast Indiana Innovation Center: $1k → 12%Honeywell Foundation: $1k → 12%Huntington County Community Foundation: $1k → 13%IU Foundation: $6k → 16%HonorHealth Foundation: $726 → 11%CARE: $1k → 13%University of Saint Francis: $6k → 12%IU Foundation: $3k → 16%ASU Foundation: $1k → 11%University of Saint Francis: $5k → 12%16 Tech Innovation District: $1k → 16%University of Saint Francis: $1k → 12%Elevate Ventures Inc: $5k → 16%Boys & Girls Club: $6k → 12%Mirro Family Donor Advised Fund: $1.0M → 12%Parkview Foundation: $69k → 12%Parkview Foundation: $13k → 12%Super Shot Inc: $3k → 12%Super Shot Inc: $1k → 12%Super Shot Inc: $1k → 12%Indiana Musical Theatre Foundation: $500 → 12%Parkview Foundation: $500 → 12%The Carriage House: $500 → 12%Fort Wayne Clubhouse Inc: $200 → 12%Fort Wayne Ballet: $26k → 12%Arts United: $21k → 12%Fort Wayne Ballet: $6k → 12%Arts United: $6k → 12%Fort Wayne Museum of Art: $1k → 12%Fort Wayne Youtheatre: $1k → 12%St Marys Soup Kitchen: $500 → 12%Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend: $500 → 12%Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend: $500 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

15%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$177k · 10 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
12

Total granted

$177k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+34%

Still filing today

70%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementInternationalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • FW
    FORT WAYNE BALLET INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $32k · revenue +14%
  • Indiana University Foundation
    3× · 2021–2023 · $10k · revenue +65%
  • HF
    HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • BG
    Boys & Girls Club
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
  • EV
    Elevate Ventures Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +41%
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +53%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Indiana Repertory Theatre Inc

Rooted in the heart of Indiana, Indiana Repertory Theatre is committed to building a vital, vibrant, and informed community through the transformational power of live theatre. The Indiana Repertory Theatre produces inclusive, top-quality,…

Arts & Culture
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
4
Indiana University Health Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
5
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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6
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
7
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

Benefit, perform, and carry out the charitable, educational, and other exempt purposes of indiana university health ball memorial hospital, inc. ("iu health ball memorial hospital") and related organizations, and to support activities…

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8
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.

Health
9
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…

Health
10
The Indianapolis Foundation Inc

To mobilize people, ideas, and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity.

Community Improvement
11
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
12
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Wayne Museum of Art Inc; the most unlike its peers is Threshold Repertory Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Mirro Family Donor Advised Fund: $1,014,110 · OtherMirro Family Donor Advised FundPARKVIEW FOUNDATION INC: $82,296 · OtherPARKVIEW FOUNDATION INC+7 more: $47,000 · OtherFORT WAYNE BALLET INC: $31,850 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $3,000 · Arts & CultureIndiana University Foundation: $10,000 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,726 · HealthSuper Shot Inc: $4,500 · HealthFORT WAYNE CLUBHOUSE INC: $700 · HealthElevate Ventures Inc: $5,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHEAST INDIANA INNOVATION CENTER INC: $1,000 · Community ImprovementCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $2,500 · InternationalHUNTINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FDTN INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHE HONEYWELL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,143,406Arts & Culture$34,850Education$11,000Health$10,926Community Improvement$6,000International$2,500Philanthropy$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPARKVIEW FOUNDATION INC: $82,296 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetFORT WAYNE BALLET INC: $31,850 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,726 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetElevate Ventures Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSuper Shot Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HONEYWELL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORT WAYNE YOUTHEATRE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHEAST INDIANA INNOVATION CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORT WAYNE CLUBHOUSE INC: $700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIndiana Musical Theatre Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

English-Bonter-Mitche…Surack Family Foundat…Dr Louis a and Anne B…Aws Foundation IncEdward D & Ione Auer …Edward M Wilson Found…Lincoln Financial Fou…The Robert Carrie and…Sledd Fdn Discretiona…Howard P Arnold Found…Natl Christian Charit…The Blackbaud Giving …
English-Bonter-Mitchell FdnPA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Surack Family Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Aws Foundation Inc · Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Robert Carrie and Bobbie Steck Family · Sledd Fdn Discretionary · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mirro Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mirro Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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