Skip to content
Plinth

· Private foundation

The Keith Busse Automotive and Classic Art Foundat

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$89k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Education$146kYouth Development$101kHealth$55kEnvironment$50kHousing & Shelter$20kArts & Culture$16kPhilanthropy$15kHuman Services$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $63k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Indiana Kidney Foundation$20,000
Lilly Center for Lakes and Streams$12,500
Trine University$10,000
Wawasee Property Owners Ass$10,000
Lift Them Up International$10,000
Purdue Fort Wayne Basketball$5,000
Boys and Girls Club of Fort Wayne$5,000
Believe in a Dream$5,000
Big Brothers and Big Sisters$5,000
International House Inc$2,500
YMCA of Greater Fort Wayne$1,500
American Conerstone Inst$1,000
Sabrina Donovan Memorial Scholorshi$1,000
American Cancer Society$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%International House: $3k → 12%International House Inc: $3k → 12%International House: $2k → 12%International House: $3k → 12%YMCA of Greater Fort Wayne: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$201k · 7 repeat orgs$233k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
24

Total granted

$201k
$161k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
0%

Still filing today

43%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TU
    Trine University
    4× · 2021–2025 · $105k · revenue +91%
  • NK
    National Kidney Foundation Of Indiana Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $13k · revenue +14%
  • IH
    INTERNATIONAL HOUSE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $10k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • W
    WACF
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • AB
    Allen Bankcroft
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • BA
    Boys and Girls Club of FW
    one grant, 2021 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

2
Northern Illinois University Foundation

The niu foundation's mission is to energize and connect the private sector with the niu community to secure and steward resources that support the future and growth of niu.

Education
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
5
Indiana Sports Corporation

To perform charitable, educational and similar exempt purposes by fostering amateur sports competitions in central indiana. see schedule o.

Recreation & Sports
6
Indianapolis Private Industry Council

The indianapolis private industry council, inc., doing business as employindy, the workforce investment board for marion county, is a not-for-profit corporation responsible for the development of the marion county workforce. employindy…

Employment
7
Girls Incorporated of Greater Indianapolis

Girls inc.'s mission is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. in partnership with schools and community organizations, we focus on the development of the whole girl. she learns to value herself, take risks, and discover and…

Youth Development
8
Indianapolis Art Center Inc

The indy art center's mission is to provide accessible and inclusive art experiences that inspire creativity, educate, engage, and enrich our community.

Arts & Culture
9
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
10
America's River Roots Experience

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Indiana University Health North Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
12
American National Standards Institute

To enhance both the global competitiveness of u.s. business and the u.s. quality of life by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment systems, and safeguarding their integrity.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Fort Wayne and the most unlike its peers is Lift Them Up International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 43 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
7/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Boys and Girls Club — $35,000 · OtherBoys and Girls ClubWACF — $25,000 · OtherWACFAllen Bankcroft — $20,498 · OtherAllen BankcroftIndiana Kidney Foundation — $20,000 · OtherIndiana Kidney FoundationBig Brothers and Big Sisters — $15,000 · OtherBig Brothers and Big SistersBoys and Girls Club of FW — $15,000 · OtherBoys and Girls Club of FWBig Brothers Big Sisters of Northea — $15,000 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters of NortheaUniversity of Saint Francis — $15,000 · OtherUniversity of Saint FrancisLilly Center for Lakes and Streams — $12,500 · OtherNational Kidney Association — $11,000 · OtherLily Center for Lakes and Streams — $10,000 · OtherSaint Francis University — $10,000 · OtherSt Francis University — $10,000 · OtherWawasee Property Owners Ass — $10,000 · Other+16 more — $37,950 · Other+16 moreTrine University — $105,000 · EducationTrine UniversityBelieve in a Dream Inc — $5,000 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC — $10,000 · InternationalLift Them Up International — $10,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL HOUSE INC — $9,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE — $1,500 · Human ServicesSTEUBEN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · PhilanthropyNational Kidney Foundation Of Indiana Inc — $13,433 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $500 · HealthARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureC2G Music Hall Corporation dba Baker Street Centre — $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$261,948Education$111,000International$20,000Human Services$16,000Philanthropy$15,000Health$13,933Arts & Culture$11,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTrine University — $105,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEUBEN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetLift Them Up International — $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL HOUSE INC — $9,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBelieve in a Dream Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROLLING INTO ROANOKE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 2.5% 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
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 Trine University
  • Who funds STEUBEN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds National Kidney Foundation Of Indiana Inc
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC
  • Who funds Lift Them Up International
  • Who funds ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL HOUSE INC
  • Who funds Believe in a Dream Inc
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ROLLING INTO ROANOKE INC
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE
  • Who funds AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds C2G Music Hall Corporation dba Baker Street Centre

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.

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

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 Keith Busse Automotive and Classic Art Foundat 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

    Source object · view filing

    More from the funding graph