· Private foundation
Robert J Parrish Harriet a Parrish and David
Its FY2022 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 FY2018–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $450,000 |
| PEARL ARTS INC | $367,857 |
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 (FY18–21, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $368k 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
- TCTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC4× · 2018–2021 · $40k · revenue +63%
- CSCANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC4× · 2018–2021 · $40k · revenue +92%
- LFLEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC4× · 2018–2021 · $40k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- FWFORT WAYNE AIR SHOW INCone grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue -55% · 29% of their budget
- CHCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INCone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +21%
- SISTARBASE INDIANA INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +75%
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.
Pbs fort wayne engages our community through content and collaborations that educate, inform, inspire, and entertain.
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…
To feed the spirit and spark the imagination through the highest caliber professional and academy performances, dance training, and community engagement.
The mission of insource is to provide parents, families, individuals and service providers in the state of indiana the information and training necessary to help assure effective educational programs and appropriate services for…
To perform services and other responsibilities associated with developing, maintaining, and improving headwaters park in fort wayne, indiana, for the benefit of the public, including, but not limited to, providing and managing programs and…
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…
Improving the health status of the community at large with special emphasis on those who, because of their poverty, location in rural areas, or for other reasons, have health needs which are not being properly addressed.
The fort wayne museum of art will collect, preserve and present american and related art to engage and educate broad and diverse audiences throughout the region and add value to their lives.
The indy art center's mission is to provide accessible and inclusive art experiences that inspire creativity, educate, engage, and enrich our community.
To stimulate, educate, and entertain audiences in east central indiana and to provide a meaningful musical experience for professional, community, and student musicians through the performance of quality music, education, and community…
To provide compassionate, patient-centered care for mind and body that improves the quality of life for our communities.
To educate, promote vaccination and increase avenues for immunizations for all children and adults in Allen County and surrounding communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turnstone Center for Children & Adults With Disabilities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pearl Arts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 14 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 FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Pearl Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE AIR SHOW INC ↗
- Who funds TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK OF FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds The Allen County Courthouse Preservation Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds STARBASE INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
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: Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · O'Rourke Schof Family Foundation · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Surack Family Foundation Inc · Owen & Jean Pritchard Fdn · Eric a Baae and Mary C Baade Charitable · Zollner Foundation · M E Raker Foundation Inc · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne 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 Robert J Parrish Harriet a Parrish and David 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.