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Olive B Cole Foundation Inc at a glance

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Olive B Cole Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2026still arriving
48
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$226k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$2.7MHuman Services$1.0MHealth$612kRecreation & Sports$537kArts & Culture$512kAnimals$478kYouth Development$390kEnvironment$364kOther$0
02FY2026 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k12 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $445k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $971k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$226,250
YMCA of Steuben County$98,650
Cole Center Family YMCA$70,000
Questa Foundation for Education$66,000
Trine University$60,000
Ivy Tech Foundation$50,279
Cameron Hospital Foundation$50,000
LaGrange Communities Youth Center$50,000
Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum$50,000
Purdue University Fort Wayne$50,000
Noble County Council on Aging$50,000
Inspiration Ministries$50,000
Black Pine Animal Sanctuary$50,000
YMCA of Dekalb County$50,000
Fort Wayne Children's Zoo$40,000
02The need
03

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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–26, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%YMCA of Steuben County: $99k → 9%Judy A Morrill Recreation Center: $25k → 9%Judy A Morrill Recreation Center: $25k → 9%Jam Center: $25k → 9%Ruth Stulz Preschool: $10k → 10%JAM Center: $25k → 9%Cole Center Family YMCA: $150k → 10%Judy A Morrill Recreation Center: $20k → 9%Cole Center Family YMCA: $100k → 10%Jam Center: $20k → 9%Cole Center Family YMCA: $100k → 10%Jam Center: $20k → 9%Cole Center Family YMCA: $100k → 10%Cole Center Family YMCA: $100k → 10%Early Childhood Alliance: $20k → 12%Cole Center Family YMCA: $70k → 10%Early Childhood Alliance: $10k → 12%Early Childhood Alliance: $10k → 12%Early Childhood Alliance: $10k → 12%Cole Center Family YMCA: $25k → 10%Kendallville Daycare Center: $10k → 10%YWCA Northeast Indiana: $5k → 12%YWCA Northeast Indiana: $5k → 12%YWCA Northeast Indiana: $5k → 12%Kate's Kart: $9k → 12%Boomerang Backpacks: $3k → 12%Crew Youth Center: $3k → 10%Early Childhood Alliance: $10k → 12%Community Transportation Network: $10k → 12%YWCA Northeast Indiana: $10k → 12%Kate's Kart: $9k → 12%YWCA of Northeast Indiana: $8k → 12%Kate's Kart: $6k → 12%Kate's Kart: $5k → 12%Kate's Kart: $4k → 12%Kate's Kart: $4k → 12%SCAN: $25k → 12%SCAN: $25k → 12%SCAN: $20k → 12%SCAN: $15k → 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 60 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

60 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2026, 27 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
61

Total granted

$6.5M
$995k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
0%

Still filing today

50%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther
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

  • CC
    Cole Center Family YMCA
    6× · 2021–2026 · $645k · revenue +41%
  • TU
    Trine University
    5× · 2020–2026 · $413k · revenue +106%
  • FW
    FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2020–2026 · $351k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • II
    Impact Institute
    one grant, 2025 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $55k
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
Noblesville Creates

Noblesville Creates cultivates arts resources to enrich the lives of everyone who experiences our community. We serve as the regional arts partner for the Indiana Arts Commission, serving seven counties in Central Indiana.

Arts & Culture
2
Indianapolis Private Industry Council

The indianapolis private industry council, inc., doing business as employindy, the workforce investment board for marion county, is a not-for-profit corporation responsible for the development of the marion county workforce. employindy…

Employment
3
New Hope of Indiana Inc

New hope of indiana, inc. is a leader in providing holistic services and resources to persons with disabilities and their families while advocating to advance the opportunities for those in need of support.

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4
Goodwill Industries of Northeast Indiana Inc

Goodwill industries of northeast indiana, inc. empowers and prepares people for independence through training, personal growth and work.

Employment
5
Cardinal Services Inc of Indiana

The mission of cardinal services, inc. of indiana is to assist and advocate for people with disabilities and challenges to live lives full of dignity, growth, and opportunity.

Education
6
Centerstone of Indiana Inc

Our mission is "delivering care that changes people's lives"

Health
7
Indiana Guardianship Services

At indiana guardianship services, inc., we are dedicated to providing our clients with the same compassion, attention, and patience as our own family. through competence, service, and dignity, we uphold the values of the national…

Human Services
8
Indiana University Health North Hospital Inc

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

Health
9
The Arc of Northwest Indiana Inc

Mission is to provide necessary resources to persons with disabilities in order to assist them in enhancing their daily lives. we provide pre-vocational training, habilitation services, individual support, and employment services based on…

Human Services
10
North Central Indiana Regional Planning Council Inc

To provide impactful services and programs that support sustainable and competitive communities throughout north central indiana.

Community Improvement
11
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
12
Greater Fort Wayne Metro Chamber Alliance Inc

Greater fort wayne (gfw) inc. is the chamber of commerce and economic development organization for fort wayne & allen county, indiana. at gfw inc., we focus on supporting local business, attracting new business, and improving our…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Noble County Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ruth Stultz Nursery School Inc. 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

72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 141 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/72
Grantees still filing
42/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $467,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPurdue University Fort Wayne: $330,000 · OtherPurdue University Fort WayneAuburn Cord Duesenberg Museum: $265,000 · OtherAuburn Cord Duesenberg MuseumTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $192,000 · OtherSCIENCE CENTRAL INC: $175,538 · Other+101 more: $3,289,470 · Other+101 moreCole Center Family YMCA: $645,000 · Human ServicesCole Center Fam…GARRETT COMMUNITY CENTER: $160,000 · Human ServicesGARRETT COMMUNI…YMCA OF STEUBEN COUNTY INC: $98,650 · Human ServicesYMCA OF STEUBEN…IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesIRIS FAMILY SUP…EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 · Human Services+7 more: $104,999 · Human Services+7 moreTrine University: $412,602 · EducationTrine Univer…Questa Education Foundation Inc: $272,000 · EducationQuesta Educa…IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $84,697 · EducationIVY TECH FOU…ALBION COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $80,000 · EducationALBION COMMU…+1 more: $20,000 · EducationFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $351,000 · AnimalsHUMANE FORT WAYNE INC: $60,000 · AnimalsPROFESSIONAL ANIMAL RETIREMENT CENTER INC: $50,000 · AnimalsDEKALB HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $25,000 · AnimalsST MARTINS HEALTHCARE INC: $205,000 · HealthHEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC: $40,000 · HealthHEARCARE CONNECTION INC: $35,400 · HealthCENTRAL NOBLE FOOD PANTRY: $20,000 · Health+4 more: $35,000 · HealthJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC: $334,300 · InternationalTHE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC: $142,633 · Community ImprovementSTEUBEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 · Community ImprovementKENDALLVILLE RESTORATIONS INC: $30,000 · Community ImprovementElevate Ventures Inc: $20,000 · Community ImprovementNOBLE COUNTY CONVENTION AND VISITOR BUREAU INC: $15,000 · Community Improvement
Other$4,719,508Human Services$1,143,649Education$869,299Animals$486,000Health$335,400International$334,300Community Improvement$257,633

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCole Center Family YMCA: $645,000 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetTrine University: $412,602 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $351,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC: $334,300 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetQuesta Education Foundation Inc: $272,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetST MARTINS HEALTHCARE INC: $205,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $192,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE CENTRAL INC: $175,538 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetGARRETT COMMUNITY CENTER: $160,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetINSPIRATION MINISTRIES INC: $150,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC: $148,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetNOBLE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $144,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC: $142,633 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetSOULMEDIC MEDIA GROUP INC: $125,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetACRES Inc: $123,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetIRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $84,697 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALBION COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $80,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetHUMANE FORT WAYNE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $55,475 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSTEUBEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA: $47,500 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetHOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC: $45,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetHEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAUDIENCES UNLIMITED INC: $39,630 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetKATE'S KART INC: $36,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetHEARCARE CONNECTION INC: $35,400 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetYWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $32,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM ACADEMY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetKENDALLVILLE RESTORATIONS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSTEUBEN COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDEKALB HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetALLIANCE INDUSTRIES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetCENTRAL NOBLE FOOD PANTRY: $20,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetCORE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetElevate Ventures Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNOBLE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNOBLE HOUSEINC: $19,092 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetBE NOBLE INC: $16,666 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSTEUBEN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRUTH STULTZ NURSERY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKENDALLVILLE DAY CARE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLAGRANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD BASEBALL ACADEMY INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFort Wayne Park Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEAST NOBLE BAND BOOSTERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.0% 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.

  • Who funds Cole Center Family YMCA ↗
  • Who funds Trine University ↗
  • Who funds FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
  • Who funds Questa Education Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST MARTINS HEALTHCARE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE CENTRAL INC ↗
  • Who funds GARRETT COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds INSPIRATION MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds NOBLE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SOULMEDIC MEDIA GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds ACRES Inc ↗
  • Who funds CAMERON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF STEUBEN COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALBION COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE FORT WAYNE INC ↗
  • Who funds DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds STEUBEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds LAGRANGE COMMUNITIES YOUTH CENTERS ↗

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.

The James Foundation …Community Foundation …English-Bonter-Mitche…Aws Foundation IncEdward M Wilson Found…Dekko Foundation IncZollner FoundationNoble County Communit…Surack Family Foundat…Howard P Arnold Found…M E Raker Foundation …Dr Louis a and Anne B…
The James Foundation IncIN73.7× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The James Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Aws Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Dekko Foundation Inc · Zollner Foundation · Noble County Community Foundation Inc · Surack Family Foundation Inc · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn

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 Olive B Cole Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Olive B Cole Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Olive B Cole Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 141 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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