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Peoples Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $144k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| JAM CENTER | $25,000 |
| COLE CENTER FAMILY YMCA | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $23,659 |
| ST MARTINS HEALTHCARE INC | $15,000 |
| AUBURN CORD DUESENBERG AUTO MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| NATMUS | $15,000 |
| ALLIANCE INDUSTRIES | $8,000 |
| HEARTEN HOUSE | $6,000 |
| HOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY | $5,000 |
| SHELTER MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| SERENITY HOUSE INC | $5,000 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE | $3,000 |
| KATE'S KART INC | $3,000 |
| DEKALB COUNTY COUNCIL OF AGING | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $307k) 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. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CCCole Center Family YMCA9× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +123%
- GCGARRETT COMMUNITY CENTER7× · 2019–2025 · $110k · revenue +22%
- AIALLIANCE INDUSTRIES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $59k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $25k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NOBLE CTYone grant, 2024 · $25k
- AEAUBURN ELKS LODGE 1978one grant, 2018 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
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…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Defiance College graduates students to lead distinctive lives in their chosen professions through a spirit of service by preparing them to Know, To Understand, To Lead, and To Serve.
The mission of calvin university is to equip students to think deeply, to act justly, and to live wholeheartedly as christ's agents of renewal in the world.
Indiana united way is the leading voice to advocate, engage, and partner with a strong united way network and key stakeholders to advance human well-being throughout indiana.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dekalb County Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Loyal Order of Moose. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 53 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARTINS HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds Cole Center Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds GARRETT COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
- Who funds DEKALB HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DEKALB COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRATION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SERENITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds KATE'S KART INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAINT FRANCIS OF FORT WAYNE INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds WARM A HEART COMMUNITY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 437 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The James Foundation Inc · Dekalb County Community Foundation Inc · Olive B Cole Foundation Inc · United Way of Dekalb County Inc · Surack Family Foundation Inc · Dekko Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Rieke Corporation Foundation · 8020 Foundation Trust · Noble County Community Foundation Inc · Steuben County Community Foundation · Aws Foundation Inc
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 Peoples Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
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.
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