· Public charity
United Way of Dekalb County Inc
United way of dekalb county, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $328,330 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $342,996 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $14,666 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
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $212k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| GARRETT KEYSER BUTER COMMUNITY SCHO | $44,455 |
| YMCA OF DEKALB COUNTY | $25,000 |
| GARRETT COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| ST MARTIN'S HEALTHCARE | $25,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $20,000 |
| SERENITY HOUSE INC | $18,000 |
| YWCA NORTHEAST IN | $15,675 |
| INSPIRATION MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| CANCER SERVICES OF NORTHEAST IN | $13,000 |
| DEKALB CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $11,000 |
| DEKALB COUNTY EASTERN COMMUNITY SCH | $9,800 |
| HAROLD W MCMILLEN CENTER FOR HEALTH | $6,400 |
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 (FY18–25, $760k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 23% 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 +84% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k 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
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DEKALB COUNTY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $378k · revenue +155%
- SHSERENITY HOUSE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $242k · revenue +69%
- DCDEKALB COUNTY PARENT GROUP FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN INC6× · 2018–2023 · $182k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- LFLAGRANGE FIRST CHURCH OF GODone grant, 2020 · $26k
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHEAST INDIANA INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue +70%
- HIHAMILTON IMPROVEMENT TEAMone grant, 2021 · $21k
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 Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Indiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jason and Joann Sweitzer Family Foundation 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 35 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 53 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 YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARTINS HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds SERENITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DEKALB COUNTY PARENT GROUP FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fort Wayne - South Bend Inc ↗
- Who funds GARRETT COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRATION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds DEKALB COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds BUTLER YOUTH EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RISE INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds WARM A HEART COMMUNITY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds DEKALB COMMUNITY IMPACT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN INDIANA CASA INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN INDIANA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANTHONY WAYNE AREA COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds DEKALB COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGE OF HOPE RANCH ↗
- Who funds JASON AND JOANN SWEITZER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Super Shot Inc ↗
- Who funds PARKVIEW DEKALB HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER MINISTRIES 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: Dekalb County Community Foundation Inc · Aws Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · The James Foundation Inc · Olive B Cole Foundation Inc · Dekko Foundation Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Peoples Charitable Foundation Inc · Noble County Community Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Parkview Health System Inc · United Way of Allen County Inc
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 Dekalb 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.