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Steuben County Community Foundation
The STEUBEN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION improves the quality of life in steuben county by connecting people who care with needs that matter to the community through endowment fund building and grantmaking
- $3.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 53
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $3.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $945,179
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 60
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $65M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Steuben County Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $349k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 51 | $3.3M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $995k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $846k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 60 | $1.1M | 28% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $763k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $812k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $1.1M | 54% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $1.7M | 59% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| YMCA of Steuben County Inc | $1,438,673 | 7 | 20% |
| Clear Lake Yacht Club Sailing School Inc | $955,683 | 2 | n/a |
| Trine University | $491,976 | 9 | 0% |
| The Arc of Northeast Indiana Inc | $481,856 | 6 | 0% |
| Our Savior Lutheran Church | $355,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Steuben County Council on Aging Inc | $340,189 | 6 | 9% |
| Pleasant Lake Mennonite Church | $300,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Indiana University School of Medicine | $196,200 | 6 | n/a |
| Cameron Memorial Community Hospital | $189,164 | 6 | 0% |
| Clear Lake Township Land Conservancy Inc | $181,843 | 7 | 10% |
Show all 99 grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Steuben County Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · The James Foundation Inc · Aws Foundation Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Olive B Cole Foundation Inc · Surack Family Foundation Inc · Dekko Foundation Inc · Kosciusko County Community Foundation Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee · Edward M Wilson Foundation
How this is measured
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About Steuben County Community Foundation
- How much does Steuben County Community Foundation give?
- Steuben County Community Foundation reported 53 itemized grants totaling $3,269,614, out of $3,669,546 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 60 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Steuben County Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Recreation & Sports (20%), Human Services (17%).
- Who are Steuben County Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: YMCA of Steuben County Inc ($1.4M), Clear Lake Yacht Club Sailing School Inc ($956k), Trine University ($492k).
- Does Steuben County Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Steuben County Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc, The James Foundation Inc, Aws Foundation Inc.
- Where is Steuben County Community Foundation based?
- Steuben County Community Foundation is based in IN.
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