· Private foundation
The Happy Way 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $6,165 |
| GLOBAL GIVING | $4,000 |
| VOLMOED YOUTH LEADERSHIP TRAINING PROGRAM | $4,000 |
| ALS ASSOCIATION INDIANA CHAPTER | $3,000 |
| SACRED HEART CHURCH | $2,000 |
| FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF BLOOMINGTON | $1,000 |
| HOTELS FOR HOMELESS | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF TENT OF NATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $3k) 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 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
28 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 6 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, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- ICINDIANA CENTER FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE8× · 2017–2024 · $169k · revenue +80%
- NCNEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN LEGAL CLINIC INC7× · 2017–2023 · $11k · revenue +88%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARENTS CIRCLE - FAMILIES FORUM6× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +211%
Funded once
- EREMMAUS ROAD MENNONITE FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2024 · $5k
- TCTZEDEK CHICAGOone grant, 2020 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The alliance for middle east peace (allmep) leads a network of 200+ civil society organizations working to create the conditions for security, peace, and freedom for both israelis and palestinians. our member ngos build trust,…
(part iii, line 1) american friends of combatants for peace is a diverse community working in solidarity with combatants for peace. afcfp raises awareness and resources, builds community, and takes direct action to advance the goal of a…
The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…
Bridging religious considerations with global peacebuilding policy and practice
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
The mission of the institute for climate and peace is to advance effective and inclusive processes to build peaceful and climate-conscious futures for the most vulnerable.
Building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers. a leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the fund for peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing…
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
Peace learning center of indianapolis facilitates community learning that acts as a catalyst for peace, equity and justice and the implementation of innovative practices. the organization's vision is a healed world where strong and caring…
Peace direct is an international organization working with local peacebuilders and other allies to shift power and resources for sustainable peace. we believe that local people should be at the center of defining and driving peacebuilding…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Families for Children Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Fort Wayne for Refugeesinc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
18 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. 18 of the 56 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 INDIANA CENTER FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN LEGAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARENTS CIRCLE - FAMILIES FORUM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AL-ROWWAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Dorset Charitable Trust · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · The James Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Happy Way Foundation 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.