· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Alive Comm OUtreach Inc | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Vera Bradley Foundation | $5,000 |
| Audiences Unlimited | $5,000 |
| Japanese American Association of | $1,000 |
| NE Indiana Boys and Girls Club | $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 (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. 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 +51% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- ETEMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC2× · 2018–2019 · $15k · revenue +99%
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
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 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…
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
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 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 MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
- Who funds AUDIENCES UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds EMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE RIVER WETLANDS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Fort Wayne Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Chapman Charitable Trust Dtd 3-3-17 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chapman Charitable Trust Dtd 3-3-17. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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