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The Keith Busse Automotive and Classic Art Foundat

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$89k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
67%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$5.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations The Keith Busse Automotive and Classic Art Foundat funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$89k79%
FY20249$81k67%
FY202312$130k58%
FY20228$44k100%
FY20214$42k100%
FY20194$23k100%
FY20182$25kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$146kYouth Development$101kHealth$55kEnvironment$50kHousing & Shelter$20kArts & Culture$16kPhilanthropy$15kHuman Services$12kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($252k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Keith Busse Automotive and Classic Art Foundat supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrine University: $105,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Of Indiana Inc: $13,433 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetJunior Achievement of Northern in Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArts United of Greater Fort Wayne Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLift Them Up International: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetInternational House Inc: $9,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBelieve in a Dream Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetRolling Into Roanoke Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Fort Wayne: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetC2G Music Hall Corporation dba Baker Street Centre: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

The Waterfield Foundation IncIN15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Aws Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · McMillen Foundation Inc · Ardelle and Theresa Glaze Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Keith Busse Automotive and Classic Art Foundat

How much does The Keith Busse Automotive and Classic Art Foundat give?
The Keith Busse Automotive and Classic Art Foundat reported 14 grants totaling $89,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Keith Busse Automotive and Classic Art Foundat fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Youth Development (23%), Health (12%).
Who are The Keith Busse Automotive and Classic Art Foundat's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Trine University ($105k), National Kidney Foundation Of Indiana Inc ($13k), Junior Achievement of Northern in Inc ($10k).
Does The Keith Busse Automotive and Classic Art Foundat fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Keith Busse Automotive and Classic Art Foundat accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Keith Busse Automotive and Classic Art Foundat?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Waterfield Foundation Inc, Edward M Wilson Foundation, Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn.
Where is The Keith Busse Automotive and Classic Art Foundat based?
The Keith Busse Automotive and Classic Art Foundat is based in IN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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