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The Chapman Charitable Trust Dtd 3-3-17
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $225k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,400,000 |
| Babe of Whitley County | $125,000 |
| Fort Wayne Civic Theater | $100,000 |
| Stillwater Hospice | $25,000 |
| Hemphill-Smith Art Foundation Inc | $10,000 |
| Allen County Public Library Fdn | $10,000 |
| Turnstone Center for Children-Adult | $6,095 |
| Audiences Unlimited | $5,000 |
| Alive Comm OUtreach Inc | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Vera Bradley Foundation | $5,000 |
| Japanese American Association of | $1,000 |
| NE Indiana Boys and Girls Club | $500 |
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 (FY23–24, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 11% 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 +51% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $257k 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
- CHCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC2× · 2018–2020 · $35k · revenue +21%
- AUAUDIENCES UNLIMITED INC5× · 2019–2024 · $25k · revenue +53%
- SCSCIENCE CENTRAL INC3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- PUPurdue Univ at Ft Wayne-Chapman Schone grant, 2023 · $500k
- CFCommunity Fdn-FW-ChapmanExchStudentone grant, 2020 · $300k
- CFCommunity Fdn-FW-Chapman Arts Fundone grant, 2020 · $200k
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 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 united mobilizes resources to develop, coordinate, and support arts and culture, enhancing the quality of life and the economic viability of northeast indiana.
The indy art center's mission is to provide accessible and inclusive art experiences that inspire creativity, educate, engage, and enrich our community.
The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…
The indiana museum of art was founded with the vision of fostering community engagement with the arts by bringing the richness of international contemporary art directly to north central indiana. through this dynamic initiative, the museum…
The mission of the haan museum of indiana art is to preserve and share the best of indiana arts and the historic museum property; to broaden public awareness of indiana arts, american furniture, and classical architecture through…
The organization's mission is to create extraordinary learning experiences across the arts, sciences and humanities that have the power to transform the lives of children and families. (Continued in Schedule O)
Cinema center, fort wayne's center for film, provides unique opportunities to explore our world through the art of film.
Visit fort wayne promotes the community as an exceptional destination, and advocates for the growth and development of the visitor industry.
To educate, promote, collect, preserve, and interpret the rich heritage of wayne county, indiana, and illustrate the county's role in american and world culture.
To feed the spirit and spark the imagination through the highest caliber professional and academy performances, dance training, and community engagement.
America's river roots' mission is a quest to forge deeper connections to america's inland river waterways, aiming to highlight the pivotal role the ohio river played in shaping our nation. sparked by america's 250th anniversary, this…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Wayne Public Television Inc and the most unlike its peers is Babe Whitley County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 51 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 BABE WHITLEY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds VERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION FOR BREAST CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds Heartland Sings Inc ↗
- Who funds AUDIENCES UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds EMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE RIVER WETLANDS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee · Journal Gazette Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Aws Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Magee-O'Connor Foundation Inc I/C/O Mr Douglas E Miller · Flora Dale Krouse Foundation · 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 Chapman Charitable Trust Dtd 3-3-17 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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