· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SHELTERING WINGS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds ASSISTING HANDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Better Way Foundation Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Better Way Foundation Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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