· Private foundation
The Robert Carrie and Bobbie Steck Family
Its FY2023 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 FY2018–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k1 grant · $29k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $330k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEARL ARTS INC | $850,000 |
| FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART | $610,000 |
| FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC | $300,000 |
| COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK | $100,000 |
| VISITING NURSE | $90,000 |
| TURNSTONE CENTER | $90,000 |
| MATTHEW 25 HEALTH AND CARE | $50,000 |
| THE CARRIAGE HOUSE | $29,403 |
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 (FY18–23, $375k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PAPearl Arts Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +886%
- FWFORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC6× · 2018–2023 · $898k · revenue +169%
- CTCOMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC6× · 2018–2023 · $270k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- HHHOSPICE HOMEone grant, 2022 · $75k
- SMST MARY'S SOUP KITCHENone grant, 2020 · $50k
- CHCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +12%
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.
Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.
Pbs fort wayne engages our community through content and collaborations that educate, inform, inspire, and entertain.
New hope of indiana, inc. is a leader in providing holistic services and resources to persons with disabilities and their families while advocating to advance the opportunities for those in need of support.
Mission is to provide necessary resources to persons with disabilities in order to assist them in enhancing their daily lives. we provide pre-vocational training, habilitation services, individual support, and employment services based on…
Arts united mobilizes resources to develop, coordinate, and support arts and culture, enhancing the quality of life and the economic viability of northeast indiana.
The mission of cardinal services, inc. of indiana is to assist and advocate for people with disabilities and challenges to live lives full of dignity, growth, and opportunity.
Easterseals crossroads purpose is to change the way the world defines and views disability by making profound and positive differences in people's lives every day.
To provide compassionate, patient-centered care for mind and body that improves the quality of life for our communities.
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…
The indy art center's mission is to provide accessible and inclusive art experiences that inspire creativity, educate, engage, and enrich our community.
The University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.
Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turnstone Center for Children & Adults With Disabilities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pearl Arts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 21 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 Pearl Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Super Shot Inc ↗
- Who funds IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE CLUBHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds AUDIENCES UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds HEADWATERS PARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST INDIANA PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
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: English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Surack Family Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Aws Foundation Inc · The Donald F Wood and Darlene M Richardson Foundation Inc · Magee-O'Connor Foundation Inc I/C/O Mr Douglas E Miller · Ian & Miriam Rolland Foundation · Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee
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 Robert Carrie and Bobbie Steck Family 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.
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