· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
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 (FY17–19, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 56 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 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 A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Happy Way Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Happy Way Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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