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Whitley County Community Foundation Inc
It is the mission of the community foundation of whitley county to inspire philanthropy, enrich community, and serve donors by creating an enduring source of charitable assets.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of WHITLEY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 47 grants below total $1,608,043 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,936,013 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,327,970 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $508k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $360k
- $250k+1 grant · $640k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSION 25 | $640,410 |
| WHITKO CAREER ACADEMY | $106,694 |
| THE CENTER | $79,503 |
| GIVING GARDENS OF INDIANA INC | $68,446 |
| WHITLEY COUNTY YMCA | $54,899 |
| WHITLEY COUNTY TREASURER | $50,000 |
| COLUMBIA CITY HIGH SCHOOL | $47,136 |
| EASTERSEALS PASSAGES | $41,954 |
| CENTER FOR WOMEN'S MINISTRIES | $37,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF WHITLEY COUNTY | $35,911 |
| CAMP WHITLEY | $35,167 |
| BABE | $28,751 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $21,283 |
| FAITH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $21,122 |
| TROY CENTER | $19,329 |
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, $609k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +39% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- IMINTERFAITH MISSION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue ×16 · 44% of their budget
- PHPARKVIEW HOSPITAL INC5× · 2017–2022 · $692k · revenue +96%
- MYMETROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE8× · 2017–2024 · $334k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- CCCHURUBUSCO COMMUNITY COALITIONone grant, 2023 · $200k · 46% of their budget
- PWPARKVIEW WHITLEY HOSPITALone grant, 2022 · $48k
- TOTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $36k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Churubusco Community Coalition. 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 38 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 100 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 INTERFAITH MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds PARKVIEW HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WHITLEY COUNTY I ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WHITLEY COUNTY YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Passages Inc ↗
- Who funds CHURUBUSCO COMMUNITY COALITION ↗
- Who funds RIGHT SIDE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP WHITLEY INC ↗
- Who funds BABE WHITLEY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Giving Gardens of Indiana Inc ↗
- Who funds WHITLEY COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGINGINC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
- Who funds WHITLEY COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WHITLEY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WOMENS MINISTRIES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Questa Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds Taylor University ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds WHITLEY COUNTY 4-H CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA CITY CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
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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: Dekko Foundation Inc · Kosciusko County Community Foundation Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Aws Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Surack Family Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Kosciusko 21st Century Foundation Inc Aka K21 Health Foundation · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Parkview Health System Inc · McMillen Foundation Inc
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 Whitley County Community 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.
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.
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