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Penny Pitch Incorporated

PENNY PITCH INCORPORATED provides grants to qualified not-for-profit organizations that serve disadvantaged people in the fort wayne, allen county, and northeast indiana region.

$120k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$447kPublic Benefit$207kFood & Nutrition$170kEmployment$168kHousing & Shelter$120kYouth Development$103kHuman Services$86kInternational$54k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$120,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE$120,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HONOR FLIGHT NORTHEAST INDIANA: $207k → 12%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA: $52k → 12%CROSSWINDS COUNSELING OF FORT WAYNE: $86k → 12%ERIN'S HOUSE FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $52k → 12%SHEPHERD'S HOUSE: $173k → 12%SHEPHERD'S HOUSE: $4k → 12%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $120k → 12%GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE OF FORT WAYNE: $168k → 12%CANCER SERVICES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA: $100k → 12%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NOTHERN INDIANA: $54k → 12%SUPER SHOT: $170k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
2
Northeastern Indiana Casa Inc

Casa volunteers provide a voice for powerless children involved in judicial proceedings, advocate for the child's best interest, and strive to improve their circumstances and quality of life.

Crime & Legal
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.

4
Turning Point Inc

Our mission is to provide professional counseling with the highest level of ethical standards to individuals in the community . We believe in health, healing, hope, growth, recovery and transformation as foundational goals for everyone and…

Health
5
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
6
Hoosier Outreach Inc the Hoosier Outreach Project
7
Northwest Indiana Realtors Association Inc

The mission of nira is to help our members be productive in their business and achieve ongoing profitability through targeted education and ethical and professional standards. we are the visible voice for the real estate interests of the…

Community Improvement
8
Our Hospice of South Central Indiana Inc

Our hospice of south central indiana, inc. (ohsci) is an independent, not-for-profit organization providing services to the terminally ill in a 22-county service area. since its inception 44 years ago, hospice has expanded to meet the…

Human Services
9
Habitat for Humanity International Wabash County Hfh

Wabash county habitat for humanity, inc. is a non-profit organization working in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to build decent, affordable housing.

10
The Jewish Federation of Nwi Inc

Enriching jewish life in northwest indiana, in israel and around the world through service, programming, advocacy and fundraising.

11
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
12
Aging and in-Home Services of Northeast Indiana Inc

To promote dignity, independence, and advocacy for all older adults and persons with disabilities.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Indiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Honor Flight Northeast Indiana 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

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GIGIS PLAYHOUSE INC — $168,000 · OtherGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INCCANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC — $100,371 · OtherCANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY I…CROSSWINDS COUNSELING OF FORT WAYNE — $85,688 · OtherCROSSWINDS COUNSELING OF FORT WAY…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $51,572 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTH…THE SHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC — $176,507 · HealthTHE SHEPHERD'S HOUSE INCSuper Shot Inc — $170,204 · HealthSuper Shot IncHonor Flight Northeast Indiana Inc — $207,083 · Public BenefitHonor Flight Nort…COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $170,104 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY HARV…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC — $120,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FO…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC — $53,577 · InternationalErins House for Grieving Children Inc — $51,572 · Youth Development
Other$405,631Health$346,711Public Benefit$207,083Food & Nutrition$170,104Housing & Shelter$120,000International$53,577Youth Development$51,572

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHonor Flight Northeast Indiana Inc — $207,083 over 1y, 23% of budgetTHE SHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC — $176,507 over 2y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $170,104 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC — $120,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC — $100,371 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC — $53,577 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetErins House for Grieving Children Inc — $51,572 over 1y, 5.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne IncIN22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Kuhne Charles Char Fdn T-W Main · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · McMillen Foundation Inc · Zollner Foundation · Charlie Tippmann Foundation Charitable Trust · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Aws Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Parrot Charitable Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Penny Pitch Incorporated funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Penny Pitch Incorporated?

    Find your warmest path to Penny Pitch Incorporated 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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