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United Way of Dekalb County Inc

United way of dekalb county, inc.

$343k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$1.5MEducation$582kHealth$517kYouth Development$214kCrime & Legal$170kFood & Nutrition$167kReligion$133kArts & Culture$92kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $328,330, the rows itemized in this filing. The $342,996 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $14,666 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $212k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$18,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EASTERSEALS RISE: $10k → 9%YWCA NORTHEAST IN: $20k → 12%YWCA NORTHEAST IN: $16k → 12%YWCA NORTHEAST IN: $13k → 12%YWCA NORTHEAST IN: $9k → 12%JAM CENTER: $25k → 9%YWCA NORTHEAST IN: $7k → 12%GARRETT COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25k → 9%JUDY A MORRILL RECREATION CENTER: $21k → 9%YWCA NORTHEAST IN: $6k → 12%JAM CENTER: $20k → 9%JUDY A MORRILL RECREATION CENTER: $20k → 9%JUDY A MORRILL RECREATION CENTER: $20k → 9%YWCA OF NE INDIANA: $23k → 12%YWCA OF NE INDIANA: $20k → 12%YWCA OF NE INDIANA: $13k → 12%YWCA OF NE INDIANA: $13k → 12%JUDY A MORRILL RECREATION CENTER: $15k → 9%YWCA OF NE INDIANA: $13k → 12%JAM CENTER: $15k → 9%YWCA OF NE INDIANA: $8k → 12%WARM A HEART: $30k → 9%WARM A HEART: $25k → 9%WARM A HEART COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $14k → 9%WARM A HEART COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $12k → 9%BOOMERANG BACKPACKS INC: $6k → 12%SERENITY HOUSE INC: $35k → 9%SERENITY HOUSE INC: $35k → 9%SERENITY HOUSE: $35k → 9%SERENITY HOUSE: $35k → 9%SERENITY HOUSE: $34k → 9%SERENITY HOUSE: $32k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $30k → 9%RSVP: $22k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $20k → 9%SERENITY HOUSE INC: $18k → 9%SERENITY HOUSE INC: $18k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $15k → 9%RSVP: $15k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 26 repeat orgs$439k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against -13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
24

Total granted

$3.1M
$323k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
-13%

Still filing today

73%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DEKALB COUNTY INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $378k · revenue +155%
  • SH
    SERENITY HOUSE INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $242k · revenue +69%
  • DC
    DEKALB COUNTY PARENT GROUP FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $182k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • LF
    LAGRANGE FIRST CHURCH OF GOD
    one grant, 2020 · $26k
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHEAST INDIANA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue +70%
  • HI
    HAMILTON IMPROVEMENT TEAM
    one grant, 2021 · $21k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Southern Indiana Mentoring Academy 100 Inc

Provide mentoring activities to empower at-risk youth in our community to make positive life choices, enabling them to maximize their personal potential.

Youth Development
2
Judson Center Inc

To provide expert, comprehensive services that strengthen children, adults and families impacted by abuse and neglect, autism, developmental, behavioral and physical health challenges so they can achieve whole health, well-being and…

Human Services
3
Iris Family Support Center Inc

Iris family support center, formerly known as scan, protects children, prepares parents, strengthens families and educates our community to stop child abuse and neglect.

Human Services
4
Cardinal Services Inc of 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.

Education
5
Indiana Guardianship Services

At indiana guardianship services, inc., we are dedicated to providing our clients with the same compassion, attention, and patience as our own family. through competence, service, and dignity, we uphold the values of the national…

Human Services
6
Children's Bureau Inc

Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.

Human Services
7
The Arc of Northwest Indiana Inc

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…

Human Services
8
New Hope of Indiana Inc

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.

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9
Jefferson Community Counseling Cent Dba Discovery Behavioral Healthcare

Discovery behavioral healthcare is a community based health treatment center dedicated to providing state of the art services to foster recovery and resilience in an accessible, respective and caring environment.

Youth Development
10
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
11
The Arc of Indiana County

Our mission is to work to include all children and adults with developmental delays or other disabilities in every community by identifying barriers, building partnerships, and realizing solutions.

Education
12
Northeastern Center Inc

With five outpatient office locations in northeast indiana, northeastern center helps individuals achieve emotional and mental wholeness through accessible, affordable, and quality behavioral health services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rise Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
17/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DEKALB COUNTY INC: $378,140 · OtherYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DEKALB COUNTY INCGARRETT KEYSER BUTER COMMUNITY SCHO: $222,407 · OtherGARRETT KEYSER BUTER COMMUNITY SCHODEKALB COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $122,750 · OtherDEKALB COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INCRISE INC: $105,000 · OtherRISE INCCANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC: $101,400 · OtherCANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INCIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $98,750 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INCDEKALB COUNTY CENTRAL UNITED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $64,868 · OtherALLIANCE INDUSTRIES INC: $70,500 · Other+27 more: $515,766 · Other+27 moreSERENITY HOUSE INC: $241,500 · Human ServicesSERENITY HOUSE INCCatholic Charities of the Diocese of Fort Wayne - South Bend Inc: $161,750 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of the …GARRETT COMMUNITY CENTER: $161,000 · Human ServicesGARRETT COMMUNITY CENTERYWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $159,175 · Human ServicesYWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INCWARM A HEART COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $81,000 · Human ServicesWARM A HEART COMMUNITY OUT…+2 more: $16,000 · Human ServicesST MARTINS HEALTHCARE INC: $296,000 · HealthST MARTINS…IMAGE OF HOPE RANCH: $18,690 · HealthIMAGE OF H…Super Shot Inc: $15,000 · Health+1 more: $6,400 · HealthINSPIRATION MINISTRIES INC: $123,714 · Crime & LegalNORTHEASTERN INDIANA CASA INC: $66,000 · Crime & LegalDEKALB COUNTY PARENT GROUP FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN INC: $181,835 · Education+1 more: $6,250 · EducationBUTLER YOUTH EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC: $110,000 · ReligionDEKALB COMMUNITY IMPACT CORPORATION: $73,762 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,779,581Human Services$820,425Health$336,090Crime & Legal$189,714Education$188,085Religion$110,000Recreation & Sports$73,762

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DEKALB COUNTY INC: $378,140 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetST MARTINS HEALTHCARE INC: $296,000 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetSERENITY HOUSE INC: $241,500 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetDEKALB COUNTY PARENT GROUP FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN INC: $181,835 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Diocese of Fort Wayne - South Bend Inc: $161,750 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetGARRETT COMMUNITY CENTER: $161,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetYWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $159,175 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetINSPIRATION MINISTRIES INC: $123,714 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetDEKALB COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $122,750 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetBUTLER YOUTH EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC: $110,000 over 7y, 31% of budgetRISE INC: $105,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC: $101,400 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $98,750 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetWARM A HEART COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $81,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetDEKALB COMMUNITY IMPACT CORPORATION: $73,762 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetALLIANCE INDUSTRIES INC: $70,500 over 4y, 10% of budgetNORTHEASTERN INDIANA CASA INC: $66,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN INDIANA FOUNDATION INC: $59,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetANTHONY WAYNE AREA COUNCIL INC: $32,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHEAST INDIANA INC: $22,500 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetDEKALB COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP INC: $20,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetIMAGE OF HOPE RANCH: $18,690 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetJASON AND JOANN SWEITZER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $15,551 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPARKVIEW DEKALB HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetSuper Shot Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSHELTER MINISTRIES INC: $12,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MONSTER TRUCK MUSEUM & HALL OF FAME: $10,500 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTHE ARC OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAROLD W MCMILLEN CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION INC: $6,400 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA IN ALLEN COUNTY INC: $6,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJ KRUSE EDUCATION CENTER INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOOMERANG BACKPACKS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 PARKVIEW DEKALB HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Super Shot Inc ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER MINISTRIES INC ↗

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.

Dekalb County Communi…Aws Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …The James Foundation …Olive B Cole Foundati…Dekko Foundation IncEnglish-Bonter-Mitche…Peoples Charitable Fo…Noble County Communit…Edward M Wilson Found…Parkview Health Syste…United Way of Allen C…
Dekalb County Community Foundation IncIN49.5× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of Dekalb County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Dekalb County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 53 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 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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