· Private foundation
Smyser Benjamin H Fdn Ta
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOMEBOUND MEALS INC | $5,000 |
| HEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC | $5,000 |
| FORT WAYNE CHILDRENS CHOIR INC | $5,000 |
| LEAGUE FOR THE BLIND & DISABLED INC | $5,000 |
| MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK OF FORT WAYN | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $15k) 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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; $5k 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
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC4× · 2020–2023 · $22k · revenue +76%
- SSSuper Shot Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +47%
- HMHEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC3× · 2023–2025 · $17k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- QEQuesta Education Foundation Incone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +5%
- YNYWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -17%
- EHErins House for Grieving Children Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +65%
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.
Provide services in response to individual need
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.
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.
The University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
To promote dignity, independence, and advocacy for all older adults and persons with disabilities.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
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.
The indiana immunization coalition exists to reduce the spread of vaccine-preventable diseases through immunization education, advocacy, promotion, and statewide collaborative partnerships.
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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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cancer Services of Allen County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ywca 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.
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 13 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 JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
- Who funds Super Shot Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC ↗
- Who funds VINCENT VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK OF FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Questa Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Homebound Meals Inc ↗
- Who funds Erins House for Grieving Children 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: Eric a Baae and Mary C Baade Charitable · Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee · Kuhne Charles Char Fdn T-W Main · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Ian & Miriam Rolland Foundation · Zollner Foundation · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Parkview Health System 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 Smyser Benjamin H Fdn Ta 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.