· Private foundation
The Carson and Rosemary Noecker Family Fnd
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $83k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $300,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $100,000 |
| HUMANE FORT WAYNE INC | $75,000 |
| COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK | $40,000 |
| LEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED | $18,000 |
| AUDIENCES UNLIMITED INC | $15,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER FORT WAYNE | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $621k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +27% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $418k 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
- FWFORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC4× · 2019–2022 · $700k · revenue +27%
- CTCOMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC7× · 2019–2025 · $395k · revenue +29%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches4× · 2020–2024 · $183k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- AUARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INCone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%
- PAPearl Arts Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +35%
- STSPECIALTY TUTORING INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -47%
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.
Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.
The mission of the fort wayne youtheatre is to educate, engage, and entertain area youth and families through theatre arts. founded by mrs. chan ray and mrs. lester jacobs in 1934 as part of old fort players (now the civic theatre), the…
Our mission: create and discover beauty to foster a community empowered by the arts. this reflects our highest aspirations for our organization as we strive for artistic excellence and represents the pedagogical principal in all our…
To feed the spirit and spark the imagination through the highest caliber professional and academy performances, dance training, and community engagement.
Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.
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.
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…
Pbs fort wayne engages our community through content and collaborations that educate, inform, inspire, and entertain.
Potential engages children and adults with autism in personalized programs that help them realize their full potential.
Our mission is to build the self-worth of individuals by restoring their hearing potential and providing them with opportunities to engage with their communities through service to others.
Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…
United memorial medical center is the only acute care hospital in genesee county, with 131 licensed acute care beds that provide the necessary healthcare services to a regional population of approximately 138,000 residents and operates the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is League for the Blind and Disabled Inc and the most unlike its peers is Specialty Tutoring Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 16 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 FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds Pearl Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HUMANE FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds AUDIENCES UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIALTY TUTORING INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED 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: English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · O'Rourke Schof Family Foundation · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Surack Family Foundation Inc · Aws Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Ardelle and Theresa Glaze Foundation · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · McMillen Foundation Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc
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 Carson and Rosemary Noecker Family Fnd 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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