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Surack Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Surack Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
114
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$22MEducation$14MPhilanthropy$3.9MHuman Services$3.8MReligion$1.9MHousing & Shelter$1.6MHealth$1.5MYouth Development$1.4MOther$0
02FY2025 · 114 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k58 grants · $239k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $443k
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+9 grants · $4.7M
$8,057
Median grant
8
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE$1,000,000
CANTERBURY SCHOOL$840,654
PEARL ARTS INC$670,342
PEARL ARTS INC$500,000
INDIANA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC$500,000
PEARL ARTS INC$400,000
MARIAN UNIVERSITY$300,000
LEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED I$250,000
BRIDGE OF GRACE$250,000
PROJECTUSORGIN$200,000
SOULMEDIC MEDIA GROUP INC$175,000
SOULMEDIC MEDIA GROUP INC$175,000
BRIDGE OF GRACE$100,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF FORT WAYNE$100,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION GREATER FORT W$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $3.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOMENS CARE CENTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%OUT OF A JAM INC: $20k → 12%A MOTHER'S HOPE: $1k → 12%A MOTHER'S HOPE: $1k → 12%ALIVE COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $15k → 12%ALIVE COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $10k → 12%YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA: $50k → 12%OUT OF A JAM INC: $10k → 12%YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA: $50k → 12%EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC: $100k → 12%EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC: $100k → 12%FORT WAYNE URBAN LEAGUE INC: $25k → 12%FORT WAYNE URBAN LEAGUE INC: $25k → 12%FORT WAYNE URBAN LEAGUE INC: $5k → 12%FORT WAYNE URBAN LEAGUE INC: $5k → 12%FORT WAYNE URBAN LEAGUE INC: $5k → 12%FORT WAYNE URBAN LEAGUE INC: $5k → 12%THE SHEPHERD'S HAND COMMUNITY OUTRE: $1k → 12%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE: $1k → 12%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE: $1k → 12%BRIDGE OF GRACE: $1.0M → 12%BRIDGE OF GRACE: $250k → 12%BRIDGE OF GRACE: $100k → 12%BRIDGE OF GRACE: $100k → 12%BRIDGE OF GRACE: $100k → 12%BRIDGE OF GRACE: $75k → 12%THE POWER HOUSE ALLIANCE INC: $1k → 12%THE POWER HOUSE ALLIANCE INC: $1k → 12%KATE'S KART INC: $3k → 12%KATE'S KART INC: $3k → 12%KATE'S KART INC: $3k → 12%KATE'S KART INC: $3k → 12%A MOTHER'S HOPE: $1k → 12%BOOMERANG BACKPACKS INC: $1k → 12%CROSSWINDS INC: $500k → 12%PROJECTUSORGIN: $200k → 12%PROJECTUSORGIN: $200k → 12%PROJECTUSORG INC: $200k → 12%WE CARRY KEVAN: $1k → 12%MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK: $2k → 12%SCAN INC: $8k → 12%SCAN INC: $7k → 12%SCAN INC: $2k → 12%SCAN INC: $2k → 12%SCAN INC: $2k → 12%SCAN INC: $2k → 12%SCAN INC: $2k → 12%SCAN INC: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
AZ
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$38M · 93 repeat orgs$7.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

93 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

93
80

Total granted

$38M
$4.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
0%

Still filing today

68%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PA
    Pearl Arts Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $20M · revenue +886% · 97% of their budget
  • VV
    VINCENT VILLAGE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +530%
  • SM
    SOULMEDIC MEDIA GROUP INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • SA
    SMITH ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue -69% · 31% of their budget
  • T
    TRINE
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • MU
    MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +18%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of Indianapolis

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.

Education
2
Indianapolis Private Industry Council

The indianapolis private industry council, inc., doing business as employindy, the workforce investment board for marion county, is a not-for-profit corporation responsible for the development of the marion county workforce. employindy…

Employment
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
4
New Hope of Indiana Inc

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.

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5
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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6
Greater Fort Wayne Metro Chamber Alliance Inc

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…

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7
Enroll Indy Inc

Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…

Education
8
Indiana Resource Center for Families With Special Needs Inc

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…

Education
9
Indiana University Health Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
10
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.

Health
11
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
12
Indiana Afterschool Network Inc

Mission: we advance learning beyond the school day by actively supporting providers with resources, training, and advocacy, while mobilizing a strong network of community partners. together, we build access to high-quality out-of-school…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wefam Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

119 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 119 of the 207 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
115/119
Grantees still filing
55/119
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Pearl Arts Inc: $19,614,598 · Arts & CulturePearl Arts Inc+15 more: $1,685,600 · Arts & Culture+15 moreTaylor University: $6,002,000 · EducationTaylor UniversityCANTERBURY SCHOOL INC: $2,802,690 · EducationCANTERBURY SCHOOL INCMANCHESTER UNIVERSITY INC: $500,000 · EducationINDIANA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $500,000 · Education+12 more: $742,900 · Education+12 morePURDUE FORT WAYNE: $3,005,000 · OtherPURDUE FORT WAYNESMITH ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE: $1,000,000 · OtherSMITH ACADEMY FOR EXCELLEN…PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE: $1,000,000 · OtherPURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAY…TRINE: $1,000,000 · OtherTRINECOMMUNITY FOUNDATION GREATER FORT W: $570,200 · OtherFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $440,700 · Other+127 more: $5,327,848 · Other+127 moreBRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC: $1,625,000 · Human ServicesPROJECTUSORG INC: $600,000 · Human ServicesCrosswinds Inc: $500,000 · Human ServicesEARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC: $200,000 · Human Services+14 more: $279,750 · Human ServicesSOULMEDIC MEDIA GROUP INC: $1,060,000 · ReligionTHE ST JOSEPH COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · ReligionLove Fort Wayne Inc: $343,919 · ReligionBE THE EDGE FORT WAYNE INC: $75,000 · Religion+2 more: $50,000 · ReligionVINCENT VILLAGE INC: $1,245,500 · Housing & ShelterFORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterJoshuas Hand Inc: $50,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND: $1,006,500 · Youth DevelopmentCOVENANT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC: $120,000 · Youth Development+3 more: $19,500 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$21,300,198Education$10,547,590Other$12,343,748Human Services$3,204,750Religion$2,028,919Housing & Shelter$1,385,500Youth Development$1,346,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPearl Arts Inc: $19,614,598 over 4y, 97% of budgetTaylor University: $6,002,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCANTERBURY SCHOOL INC: $2,802,690 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetBRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC: $1,625,000 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetVINCENT VILLAGE INC: $1,245,500 over 4y, 16% of budgetSOULMEDIC MEDIA GROUP INC: $1,060,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND: $1,006,500 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetSMITH ACADEMY FOR EXCELLENCE: $1,000,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetUNITY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 over 3y, 82% of budgetPROJECTUSORG INC: $600,000 over 3y, 97% of budgetARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC: $510,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetMANCHESTER UNIVERSITY INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINDIANA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCrosswinds Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $440,700 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetLove Fort Wayne Inc: $343,919 over 5y, 22% of budgetLEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC: $300,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetMarian University: $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE FORT WAYNE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetThe Dream Center FW Inc: $200,000 over 3y, 89% of budgetADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCOVENANT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $200,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetNeighborhood Health Clinics Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC: $200,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetThe Musical Arts Institute: $175,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetSPECIALTY TUTORING INC: $150,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetAMANI FAMILY SERVICES: $125,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetEMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC: $120,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC: $120,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHUNTINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FDTN INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetYWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPOWER TO INSPIRE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetThe One Question Foundation Inc: $93,738 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetBelieve in a Dream Inc: $85,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetBLUE JACKET INC: $78,440 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetFORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBE THE EDGE FORT WAYNE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetGROW ALLEN INC: $75,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetFORT WAYNE URBAN LEAGUE INC: $70,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC: $70,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAUBURN AUTOMOTIVE HERITAGE INC: $70,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC: $69,250 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLife Restoration Services Inc: $57,500 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetHOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetElevate Ventures Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGrace Schools: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Community Foundation …English-Bonter-Mitche…Edward M Wilson Found…The James Foundation …Dr Louis a and Anne B…The Waterfield Founda…Parkview Health Syste…Aws Foundation IncHoward P Arnold Found…M E Raker Foundation …McMillen Foundation I…Do It Best Foundation…
Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne IncIN127.3× affinity64 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Edward M Wilson Foundation · The James Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Parkview Health System Inc · Aws Foundation Inc · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · McMillen Foundation Inc · Do It Best Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Surack Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Surack Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 207 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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