· Private foundation
Vera Z Dwyer Charitable Trust Uad 121920
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $58k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $991k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| A ROSIE PLACE FOR CHILDREN | $550,000 |
| OAKLAWN FOUNDATION | $176,666 |
| CULTIVATE FOOD RESCUE | $167,000 |
| DUSTINS PLACE | $150,000 |
| HOPE MINISTRIES | $150,000 |
| LOGAN | $125,000 |
| HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $122,543 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF | $50,000 |
| UNITY FOUNDATION OF LAPORTE COUNTY | $50,000 |
| LoveWay Inc | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY | $15,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $13,000 |
| FOREVER LEARNING INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $325k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +80% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 4 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, 99% 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
Indiana University Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $5.7M · revenue +162%- OHO'HANA HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $775k · revenue +80%
- LCLogan Community Resources Inc3× · 2020–2025 · $535k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -11%
- ROREINS OF LIFE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +210%
- HCHONORING CHOICES INDIANA - NORTH CENTRALone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
With a 150+ year history, Saint Joe's is a place where people with developmental disabilities and complex support needs find connection, dignity and joy. Our community is built on compassion and possibility where every person is seen,…
Provide services in response to individual need
Joseph's house for women, inc. promotes the sanctity of life and the dignity of women by providing a nurturing home for pregnant and parenting women who are facing homelessness. joseph's house provides residential, long term care for women…
Hoosier Families is a non-profit organization that provides Community Based programs for Indiana children and families. Hoosier Families is committed to utilizing evidence-based practices to strengthen, rebuild and reunite the individuals…
Day spring provides a path forward for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through services that cultivate hope, belonging, and community.we envision every person being valued and having a path forward regardless of…
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.
To provide emergency shelter and resources for single homeless women, regardless of their faith, in an environment that respects their dignity as human persons, affords them the opportunity to live indivdiually and collectively with others…
St. Elizabeth Catholic Charities exists to affirm the dignity of and respect for all human life by assisting individuals and families in need to achieve empowerment and self-sufficiency.
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…
Operation of an eighty-two bed residential health care facility committed to the total care of the person, including spiritual care, affirming the catholic belief in the dignity of human life, and dedicated to personal care of those it…
MISSION - ST. JUDE HOUSE, Inc. (St. Jude House) IS a family violence prevention center and shelter; our mission is TO CELEBRATE LIFE AND SERVE WITH JOY. Vision - St. Jude House is a catalyst in Northwest Indiana for the prevention,…
Lifespring's mission is to improve and sustain the quality of life in our communities by providing comprehensive behavioral health, addiction and related services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of St Joseph County Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Margarets House. 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 44 years old; the field is 20. 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 11% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 30 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 Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds O'HANA HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Logan Community Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DUSTINS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITY FOUNDATION OF LA PORTE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds St Margarets House ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA CORRIDOR INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SOCIETY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY RIVERBEND CANCER SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LOVEWAY INC ↗
- Who funds FOREVER LEARNING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds REINS OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF SOUTH BEND INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds REAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CLUBHOUSE OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HANNAH'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE HAS NO BOUNDARIES CO ↗
- Who funds YWCA NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds LA CASA DE AMISTAD 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: University of Notre Dame du Lac · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · Carroll F V Char Tr-Main · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · Asante Foundation Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · United Way of St Joseph County Inc · Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Radiology Inc Foundation · Fields Foundation Irr Tua · Klockow Harvey R and Doris Fdn
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 Vera Z Dwyer Charitable Trust Uad 121920 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.