· Private foundation
The Better Way Foundation Ltd
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROMISE POINTE | $63,070 |
| NORTH CHURCH OF CHRIST | $16,583 |
| 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY | $7,800 |
| FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC | $3,000 |
| FORT WAYNE ANIMAL CARE | $1,000 |
| HUMANE FORT WAYNE | $1,000 |
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, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 38% 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 +65% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 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, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
SHELTERING WINGS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC4× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +18%- AHASSISTING HANDS FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2022 · $9k · revenue +69%
- HFHUMANE FORT WAYNE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $29k
- GFGREENCROFT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $7k
- AHAPPLE HOUSE PRESCHOOL COOPERATIVE INCone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +2%
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.
The paws of muskingum county mission is to achieve a smaller, healthier pet population through affordable spay/neuter program
Wayne county paws is a charitable organization whose core mission is to provide support to the wayne county dog shelter & adoption center.
To lead the community in the humane treatment of animals.
Animal shelter
Provide services in response to individual need
our mission is to improve the conditions for pit bull type dogs in northern indiana through education public awareness and by providing resources for pit bulls in need.
Assist with homeless pet overpopulation in ohio by providing education and financial support for spay and neuter efforts, financing shelter rescue fees, organizing basic veterinary care, facilitating transportation for companion animals…
Incorporated in 1980 afa inc is an all volunteer, non-profit organization dedicated to helping the stray animals of delaware county indiana. we take in stray cats of the county, provide medical care, spay/neuter surgery, and placement into…
To promote animal welfare in hancock county through humane education and pet population control by: developing and providing humane education programs that teach kindness to and respect for all living things. helping animals housed in…
The lawrence humane society nurtures the human-animal bond by providing shelter, care and advocacy for homeless and abused animals, as well as resource for the pets and people in our community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Wayne Zoological Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Assisting Hands Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 35 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 SHELTERING WINGS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds ASSISTING HANDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds FAYETTE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds APPLE HOUSE PRESCHOOL COOPERATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE PREGNANCY CENTER DBA HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE BALLET 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: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Better Way Foundation Ltd 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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