· Private foundation
The Cartwright Foundation
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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAURICE MATHYS LITTLE LEAGUE | $65,000 |
| WOMEN'S CARE CENTER | $40,000 |
| LA CASA DE AMISTAD | $10,000 |
| REINS FOR LIFE | $10,000 |
| PORTAGE TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRYTRUSTE | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF GRANGER PATHS INC | $5,000 |
| KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL 4263 | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–22, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of The Cartwright Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in IN; by stated purpose, 83%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 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, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YSYOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC5× · 2017–2022 · $73k · revenue +46%
- ROREINS OF LIFE INC3× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +92%
- LCLA CASA DE AMISTAD INC3× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +829%
Funded once
- CWCHET WAGGONER LITTLE LEAGUEone grant, 2024 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2021–2022 · $10k
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INCone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +14%
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.
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…
To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…
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.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of arc of wabash county, inc. is to challenge, empower, and support individuals with disabilities to reach their highest level of independence. arc of wabash is dedicated to: 1) preserve, protect, and promote the dignity of…
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 63 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 HARRIS BASEBALL SOFTBALL INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REINS OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds HARVARD GLEE GLUB ALUMNI INC ↗
- Who funds LA CASA DE AMISTAD INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds MISHAWAKA LIONS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GRANGER PATHS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MENNINGER CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds ALCOHOL & ADDICTIONS RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM ↗
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: Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · Carroll F V Char Tr-Main · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Vera Z Dwyer Charitable Trust Uad 121920 · Asante Foundation Inc · The Pokagon Fund Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Bowsher the Booher Foundation · Radiology Inc Foundation · Memorial Hospital of South Bend Inc · Muessel Ellison Mem Irr Tua
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Cartwright Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cartwright Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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