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Vera Z Dwyer Charitable Trust Uad 121920 at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.0M
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$5.7MHealth$3.0MPhilanthropy$485kHuman Services$468kHousing & Shelter$465kYouth Development$400kFood & Nutrition$384kReligion$215kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $58k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $991k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
$125,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
UNITY FOUNDATION OF LAPORTE COUNTY$50,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF$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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LIFE HAS NO BOUNDARIES CO: $5k → 19%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU ST JOSEPH COUNTY: $150k → 13%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU ST JOSEPH COUNTY: $150k → 13%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU ST JOSEPH COUNTY: $5k → 13%THE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF SOUTH BEND: $10k → 13%THE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF SOUTH BEND: $5k → 13%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 16 repeat orgs$200k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
12

Total granted

$11M
$180k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+15%

Still filing today

69%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • Indiana University Foundation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $5.7M · revenue +162%
  • OH
    O'HANA HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $775k · revenue +80%
  • LC
    Logan Community Resources Inc
    3× · 2020–2025 · $535k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -11%
  • RO
    REINS OF LIFE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +210%
  • HC
    HONORING CHOICES INDIANA - NORTH CENTRAL
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
St Joseph Infant and Maternity Home

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,…

Human Services
2
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
3
Joseph's House for Women Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
4
Hoosier Families Inc

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…

Human Services
5
Day Spring Inc

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…

Human Services
6
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.

—
7
St Joseph Missions Inc

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…

Philanthropy
8
St Elizabeth Catholic Charities Inc

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.

—
9
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
10
St Joseph's Home

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…

—
11
St Jude House Inc

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,…

Housing & Shelter
12
Lifespring Inc

Lifespring's mission is to improve and sustain the quality of life in our communities by providing comprehensive behavioral health, addiction and related services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of St Joseph County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Indiana University Foundation: $5,660,750 · EducationIndiana University Foundation+1 more: $20,000 · EducationHOSPICE FOUNDATION: $1,565,086 · OtherHOSPICE FOUNDATIONLogan Community Resources Inc: $535,000 · OtherLogan Community Resources IncHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF: $460,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OFOAKLAWN FOUNDATION: $260,000 · OtherOAKLAWN FOUNDATIONHOPE MINISTRIES: $210,000 · OtherHOPE MINISTRIESRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $163,000 · Other+9 more: $190,000 · Other+9 moreO'HANA HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $775,000 · HealthO'HANA HE…DUSTINS PLACE INC: $160,000 · HealthDUSTINS P…+2 more: $25,000 · HealthCULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC: $374,000 · EmploymentYOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $305,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF SOUTH BEND INC: $15,000 · Human Services+3 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesUNITY FOUNDATION OF LA PORTE COUNTY: $125,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropySt Margarets House: $105,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$5,680,750Other$3,383,086Health$960,000Employment$374,000Human Services$340,000Philanthropy$225,000Recreation & Sports$105,000

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

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 budgetUNITY FOUNDATION OF LA PORTE COUNTY: $125,000 over 3y, 1.3% 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
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.

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 D…Community Foundation …Carroll F V Char Tr-M…Judd Leighton Foundat…Asante Foundation Inc1st Source Bank Found…United Way of St Jose…Community Foundation …Nisource Charitable F…Radiology Inc Foundat…Fields Foundation Irr…Klockow Harvey R and …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Vera Z Dwyer Charitable Trust Uad 121920 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vera Z Dwyer Charitable Trust Uad 121920. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 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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