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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
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.
The 53 grants below total $3,269,614 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,669,546 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $399,932 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $632k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $396k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEAR LAKE YACHT CLUB SAILING SCHOO | $945,179 |
| YMCA OF STEUBEN COUNTY INC | $876,093 |
| OUR SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH SCHOOL | $355,000 |
| EASTERSEALS NORTHEAST INDIANA | $129,567 |
| PLEASANT LAKE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $100,000 |
| CAMERON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $59,484 |
| YMCA OF STEUBEN COUNTY INC | $54,750 |
| STEUBEN COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC | $52,146 |
| BSA- ANTHONY WAYNE AREA COUNCIL | $43,693 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| STEUBEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | $27,962 |
| STEUBEN ARTS SCENE | $25,500 |
| HAMILTON COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORP | $24,797 |
| CLEAR LAKE TOWNSHIP LAND CONSERV | $24,656 |
| ANGOLA BALLOONS ALOFT | $24,016 |
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, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 15% 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 +18% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
85 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 13 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $545k 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
- YOYMCA OF STEUBEN COUNTY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +373%
- TUTrine University9× · 2017–2025 · $492k · revenue +135%
- TATHE ARC OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $482k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- MUMANCHESTER UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2019 · $60k · revenue +21%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $53k
- MPMOAKE PARK GROUP INCone grant, 2023 · $49k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana Special Olympics Inc and the most unlike its peers is Steuben County Humane Society Inc. 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 36 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 147 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 YMCA OF STEUBEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Trine University ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds STEUBEN COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds CAMERON MEMORIAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CLEAR LAKE TOWNSHIP LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds STEUBEN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT OF STEUBEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RISE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds STEUBEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds STEUBEN COUNTY LITERACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds STEUBEN COUNTY LAKES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds STEUBEN COUNTY CANCER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TLC-STEUBEN ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
- Who funds FREMONT YOUTH & COMMUNITY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds STEUBEN ARTS SCENE CORP ↗
- Who funds BETHEL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAINT FRANCIS OF FORT WAYNE INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds LAND OF LAKES FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE ↗
- Who funds CAMERON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN ANGOLA COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VINE EARLY LEARNING 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: 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
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 Steuben County Community Foundation 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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