· Public charity
United Way of Allen County Inc
To boldly impact critical community issues with a vision of effectively transforming our community through measurable impact.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $785,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $806,851 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $21,851 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k15 grants · $360k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $425k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIGHTPOINT | $180,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF IN | $125,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $70,000 |
| LEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED | $50,000 |
| ST JOSEPH MISSIONS INC | $30,000 |
| HEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES | $30,000 |
| HEADWATERS COUNSELING | $30,000 |
| YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| AMANI FAMILY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| A MOTHER'S HOPE | $25,000 |
| FORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION | $20,000 |
| INNER CITY HOPE CORP | $20,000 |
| WELLSPRING INTERFAITH SOCIAL SVCS | $20,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINICS INC | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $5.3M) 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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +72%
- LSLutheran Social Services Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +65%
- TCTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC6× · 2017–2022 · $766k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- TVTO VAR ORGANIZATIONS & UNITED WAYSone grant, 2017 · $748k
- IHINTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INCone grant, 2022 · $188k · revenue -43%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $162k
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.
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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 Human Agricultural Cooperative Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
63 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. 63 of the 99 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 COMMUNITY ACTION OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Social Services Inc ↗
- Who funds TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC D/B/A HEADWATERS COUNSELING ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Health Clinics Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE JACKET INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE ↗
- Who funds VINCENT VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds COURAGEOUS HEALING INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fort Wayne - South Bend Inc ↗
- Who funds IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds AGING AND IN-HOME SERVICES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST YOUTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR NONVIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds AMANI FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds COME AS YOU ARE COMMUNITY CHUR ↗
- Who funds HUMAN AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE 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: Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Edward M Wilson Foundation · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Surack Family Foundation Inc · The James Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Parkview Health System Inc · Zollner Foundation
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 United Way of Allen County Inc 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.