· Private foundation
The James Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $155k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $193k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+6 grants · $6.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION | $3,000,000 |
| TRINE UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| CANTERBURY SCHOOL | $1,000,000 |
| VINCENT VILLAGE | $500,000 |
| DEKALB CENTRAL FOUNDATION | $425,000 |
| TRINE UNIVERSITY | $300,000 |
| DEKALB COUNTY COURTHOUSE | $246,600 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH | $200,000 |
| FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC | $200,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $200,000 |
| NATIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| GROWING LIVES FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| THE ARC OF NORTHEAST INDIANA (EASTERSEALS RISE) | $120,000 |
| QUESTA FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| KENDALLVILLE RESTORATION INC | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 12% of The James Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
79 repeat relationships: 55 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 9 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $492k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NPNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2025 · $13M · revenue +117%
- TUTrine University5× · 2017–2025 · $7.2M · revenue +135%
- TBTHE BRANDON FOUNDATION INCORPORATED4× · 2022–2025 · $551k · revenue +298% · 53% of their budget
Funded once
- MAMad Anthonys Foundationone grant, 2022 · $3.0M
- LMLighthouse Montessori Educationone grant, 2022 · $2.0M
- UPUNITY PERFORMING ARTSone grant, 2023 · $750k
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.
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How this is measured
143 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. 143 of the 468 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Trine University ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRANDON FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds VINCENT VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND ↗
- Who funds Questa Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Health Clinics Inc ↗
- Who funds KENDALLVILLE RESTORATIONS INC ↗
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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 · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Aws Foundation Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Surack Family Foundation Inc · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Parkview Health System Inc · Do It Best Foundation Inc · Olive B Cole Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The James Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- See Turtles: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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