· Private foundation
Valiant Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $141k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Fort Wayne Jewish Federation | $33,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $31,000 |
| Fort Schuyler Maritime Alumni Assoc | $30,000 |
| Florida Holocaust Museum | $20,000 |
| Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne | $15,000 |
| Parkview Foundation | $12,000 |
| Maritime Industry Museum | $9,500 |
| Community Harvest Food Bank | $8,500 |
| NE Indiana Public Radio | $7,000 |
| Turnstone Center for Disabled Children and Adults | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Planned Parenthood | $5,000 |
| Center for Excellence in Education | $5,000 |
| St Mary's Church Soup Kitchen | $4,000 |
| Jewish Federation of Indianapolis | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +28% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 2 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- FSFORT SCHUYLER MARITIME ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +97%
FLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM INC8× · 2018–2025 · $54k · revenue +166%- CHCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- SMST MARYS SOUP KITCHENone grant, 2024 · $4k
- EHErins House for Grieving Children Incone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
- FWFORT WAYNE COMMUNITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
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.
Benefit, perform, and carry out the charitable, educational, and other exempt purposes of indiana university health ball memorial hospital, inc. ("iu health ball memorial hospital") and related organizations, and to support activities…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Pbs fort wayne engages our community through content and collaborations that educate, inform, inspire, and entertain.
The fort wayne museum of art will collect, preserve and present american and related art to engage and educate broad and diverse audiences throughout the region and add value to their lives.
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…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
The mission of the indiana dental association is to support dentists, to promote professionalism, and to improve oral health.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana Special Olympics Inc and the most unlike its peers is Maritime Industry Museum At Fort Schulyer. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 54 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 FORT WAYNE JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORT SCHUYLER MARITIME ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds PARKVIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH GLASER PEDIATRIC AIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MARITIME INDUSTRY MUSEUM AT FORT SCHULYER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Excellence in Education ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MACULAR DEGENERATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST INDIANA PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds NEUROFIBROMATOSIS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds EMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA SPECIAL OLYMPICS 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: The Waterfield Foundation Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Journal Gazette Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Surack Family Foundation Inc · The Donald F Wood and Darlene M Richardson Foundation Inc · Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee · McMillen Foundation Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Magee-O'Connor Foundation Inc I/C/O Mr Douglas E Miller
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 Valiant Foundation 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.
- Florida Holocaust Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
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.