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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.

$2.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$125,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 21
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$4.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Vera Z Dwyer Charitable Trust Uad 121920 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EmploymentHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$2.5M8%
FY202412$2.8M25%
FY20239$1.4M11%
FY20227$1.4M14%
FY20218$1.3M25%
FY202021$1.5Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$5.7MHealth$3.0MPhilanthropy$485kHuman Services$468kHousing & Shelter$465kYouth Development$400kFood & Nutrition$384kReligion$215kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Vera Z Dwyer Charitable Trust Uad 121920 supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIndiana University Foundation: $5,660,750 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetO'Hana Heritage Foundation Inc: $775,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetLogan Community Resources Inc: $535,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCultivate Culinary School and Catering Inc: $374,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetYouth Service Bureau of St Joseph County Inc: $305,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetDustins Place Inc: $160,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetSt Margarets House: $105,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetUnited Way of St Joseph County Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of the Northern Indiana Corridor Inc: $95,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCancer Society of St Joseph County Riverbend Cancer Services: $40,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetForever Learning Institute Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetReins of Life Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetThe Christ Child Society of South Bend Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Indiana Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReal Services Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetClubhouse of St Joseph County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHannah's House Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLife Has No Boundaries Co: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetYWCA North Central Indiana Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLa Casa de Amistad Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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.

University of Notre Dame du LacIN42× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Vera Z Dwyer Charitable Trust Uad 121920

How much does Vera Z Dwyer Charitable Trust Uad 121920 give?
Vera Z Dwyer Charitable Trust Uad 121920 reported 14 grants totaling $2,599,209 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Vera Z Dwyer Charitable Trust Uad 121920 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (51%), Health (27%), Philanthropy (4%).
Who are Vera Z Dwyer Charitable Trust Uad 121920's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Indiana University Foundation ($5.7M), O'Hana Heritage Foundation Inc ($775k), Logan Community Resources Inc ($535k).
Does Vera Z Dwyer Charitable Trust Uad 121920 fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Vera Z Dwyer Charitable Trust Uad 121920 accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Vera Z Dwyer Charitable Trust Uad 121920?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include University of Notre Dame du Lac, Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc, Carroll F V Char Tr-Main.
Where is Vera Z Dwyer Charitable Trust Uad 121920 based?
Vera Z Dwyer Charitable Trust Uad 121920 is based in IN.

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 30 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-PF 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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