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The Carson and Rosemary Noecker Family Fnd at a glance

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The Carson and Rosemary Noecker Family Fnd

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$558k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$1.5MArts & Culture$1.3MHuman Services$818kPublic Safety & Disaster$283kAnimals$150kFood & Nutrition$75kEducation$50k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $83k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE AMERICAN RED CROSS: $60k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $45k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $40k → 14%THE AMERICAN RED CROSS: $38k → 14%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $130k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $80k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $55k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $40k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $30k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $30k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $30k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $14k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $10k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $10k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $9k → 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.
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 10 repeat orgs$918k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
3

Total granted

$3.2M
$500k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
0%

Still filing today

70%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $418k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • FW
    FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $700k · revenue +27%
  • CT
    COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $395k · revenue +29%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    4× · 2020–2024 · $183k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • AU
    ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%
  • PA
    Pearl Arts Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +35%
  • ST
    SPECIALTY TUTORING INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -47%
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
Teamability Inc

Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.

Education
2
Fort Wayne Youtheatre Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
3
The Fine Arts Association

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Fort Wayne Ballet Inc

To feed the spirit and spark the imagination through the highest caliber professional and academy performances, dance training, and community engagement.

Arts & Culture
5
Ability Kc

Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.

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6
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
7
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
8
Fort Wayne Public Television Inc

Pbs fort wayne engages our community through content and collaborations that educate, inform, inspire, and entertain.

Arts & Culture
9
Potential Inc

Potential engages children and adults with autism in personalized programs that help them realize their full potential.

Human Services
10
Hearcare Connection Inc

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.

Health
11
Highmark Health Group

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…

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12
United Memorial Medical Center

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is League for the Blind and Disabled Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TURNSTONE CENTER FOR DISABLED: $1,375,000 · OtherTURNSTONE CENTER FOR DISABLEDTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $300,000 · OtherTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDRENAUDIENCES UNLIMITED INC: $105,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS: $100,000 · OtherEASTER SEALS ARC OF NE INDIANA: $80,000 · Other+1 more: $66,000 · OtherFORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $700,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHEST…ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAY…Pearl Arts Inc: $200,000 · Arts & CulturePearl Arts IncCOMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC: $395,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY TRANSPO…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $182,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National…METROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $43,064 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN YOUN…HUMANE FORT WAYNE INC: $150,000 · AnimalsCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $75,000 · Food & NutritionSPECIALTY TUTORING INC: $50,000 · EducationLEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC: $18,000 · Health
Other$2,026,000Arts & Culture$1,150,000Human Services$620,564Animals$150,000Food & Nutrition$75,000Education$50,000Health$18,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $700,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC: $395,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPearl Arts Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $182,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE FORT WAYNE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAUDIENCES UNLIMITED INC: $105,000 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIALTY TUTORING INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMETROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $43,064 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

English-Bonter-Mitche…O'Rourke Schof Family…Edward M Wilson Found…Surack Family Foundat…Aws Foundation IncLincoln Financial Fou…Howard P Arnold Found…Ardelle and Theresa G…The Waterfield Founda…Community Foundation …McMillen Foundation I…M E Raker Foundation …
English-Bonter-Mitchell FdnPA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Carson and Rosemary Noecker Family Fnd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carson and Rosemary Noecker Family Fnd. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Carson and Rosemary Noecker Family Fnd?

    Find your warmest path to The Carson and Rosemary Noecker Family Fnd through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 16 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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