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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.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
62
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$309k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$1.8MEducation$1.7MRecreation & Sports$1.4MHealth$1.2MCommunity Improvement$783kYouth Development$625kReligion$598kHuman Services$523kOther$0
02FY2025 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 62 grants below total $1,420,822, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,692,564 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,271,742 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $143k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $831k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $138k
  • $250k+1 grant · $309k
$13,597
Median grant
7
States reached
$48M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSION 25$308,770
WHITLEY COUNTY YMCA$82,151
HUMANE SOCIETY OF WHITLEY COUNTY$56,014
THE CENTER$45,726
PARKVIEW WHITLEY EMS$43,906
TROY SCHOOL$43,130
COLUMBIA CITY HIGH SCHOOL FFA$40,211
MERCY CHEFS$35,000
FAITH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$34,817
CHURUBUSCO CHILDCARE CENTER$32,749
CAMP WHITLEY$31,449
LIFEWISE WHITLEY COUNTY$29,783
CITY OF COLUMBIA CITY$28,902
YOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN IN$26,745
GIVING GARDENS OF INDIANA INC$26,248
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $789k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHURUBUSCO CHILDCARE CENTER: $33k → 9%A HOPE CENTER: $15k → 12%MERCY CHEFS: $35k → 20%A HOPE CENTER: $10k → 12%A HOPE CENTER: $8k → 12%CHURUBUSCO CHILDCARE: $9k → 9%YWCA OF FORT WAYNE: $10k → 12%CHURUBUSCO CHILDCARE: $7k → 9%YWCA OF FORT WAYNE: $10k → 12%CHURUBUSCO CHILDCARE CENTER: $7k → 9%CHURUBUSCO CHILDCARE CENTER: $6k → 9%YWCA OF FORT WAYNE: $10k → 12%YWCA OF FORT WAYNE: $10k → 12%CROSSWINDS: $6k → 12%EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE: $7k → 12%WHITLEY COUNTY YMCA: $82k → 9%WHITLEY COUNTY YMCA: $66k → 9%BOOMERAGE BACKPACKS: $11k → 12%BABE: $66k → 9%WHITLEY COUNTY YMCA: $63k → 9%BOOMERANG BACKPACKS: $8k → 12%WHITLEY COUNTY YMCA: $57k → 9%YWCA OF FORT WAYNE: $7k → 12%WHITLEY COUNTY YMCA: $55k → 9%BOOMERANG BACKPACKS: $5k → 12%WHITLEY COUNTY YMCA: $37k → 9%BABE: $29k → 9%WHITLEY COUNTY YMCA: $28k → 9%BABE OF WHITLEY COUNTY: $23k → 9%WHITLEY COUNTY YMCA: $21k → 9%BABE: $17k → 9%BABE: $16k → 9%BABE: $7k → 9%WHITLEY COUNTY YMCA: $7k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
IN
OH
CO
VA
NC
GA
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 63 repeat orgs$709k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
35

Total granted

$11M
$524k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+23%

Still filing today

59%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthReligionYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
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

  • IM
    INTERFAITH MISSION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue ×16 · 44% of their budget
  • PH
    PARKVIEW HOSPITAL INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $736k · revenue +96%
  • MY
    METROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $416k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHURUBUSCO COMMUNITY COALITION
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · 46% of their budget
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $36k
  • TS
    TROY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $19k
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
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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2
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
3
Indiana University Health White Memorial Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
4
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
5
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
6
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
7
Enroll Indy Inc

Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…

Education
8
Indiana University Health North Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
9
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.

Health
10
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
11
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…

Health
12
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 114 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/67
Grantees still filing
49/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF COLUMBIA CITY: $1,198,380 · OtherCITY OF COLUMBIA CITYTROY CENTER: $594,088 · OtherTROY CENTERSOUTH WHITLEY COMMUNITY PUBLIC: $542,507 · OtherSOUTH WHITLEY COMMUNITY PUBLICWHITLEY COUNTY CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS: $341,553 · OtherWHITLEY COUNTY CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLSWHITKO COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $328,393 · OtherPassages Inc: $263,083 · OtherCOLUMBIA CITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $247,397 · Other+71 more: $2,643,398 · Other+71 moreINTERFAITH MISSION INC: $2,078,476 · Housing & ShelterINTERFAITH MISSION I…METROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $416,171 · Human ServicesBABE WHITLEY COUNTY INC: $157,627 · Human ServicesCHURUBUSCO COMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $61,299 · Human ServicesYWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $48,367 · Human ServicesMERCY CHEFS INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST INDIANA CHRISTIAN ACTION COUNCIL EDUCATIONAL & CHARITABLE FU: $33,514 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $31,500 · Human Services+3 more: $37,007 · Human ServicesPARKVIEW HOSPITAL INC: $735,510 · HealthJoe's Kids Inc: $27,500 · Health+5 more: $42,877 · HealthCENTER FOR WHITLEY COUNTY YOUTH INC: $339,183 · EducationRIGHT SIDE FOUNDATION INC: $209,163 · EducationQuesta Education Foundation Inc: $82,500 · EducationTaylor University: $51,091 · EducationTROY Center Inc: $48,379 · Education+7 more: $69,939 · EducationHUMANE SOCIETY OF WHITLEY COUNTY I: $367,667 · AnimalsFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $55,802 · Animals+1 more: $6,000 · AnimalsCAMP WHITLEY INC: $179,006 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC: $106,427 · Youth DevelopmentLIFEWISE INC: $29,783 · Youth Development
Other$6,158,799Housing & Shelter$2,078,476Human Services$820,485Health$805,887Education$800,255Animals$429,469Youth Development$315,216

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERFAITH MISSION INC: $2,078,476 over 9y, 44% of budgetPARKVIEW HOSPITAL INC: $735,510 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $416,171 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF WHITLEY COUNTY I: $367,667 over 8y, 29% of budgetCENTER FOR WHITLEY COUNTY YOUTH INC: $339,183 over 8y, 24% of budgetPassages Inc: $263,083 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetRIGHT SIDE FOUNDATION INC: $209,163 over 8y, 17% of budgetCHURUBUSCO COMMUNITY COALITION: $200,100 over 1y, 46% of budgetCAMP WHITLEY INC: $179,006 over 6y, 39% of budgetBABE WHITLEY COUNTY INC: $157,627 over 6y, 80% of budgetGiving Gardens of Indiana Inc: $135,709 over 6y, 28% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC: $111,338 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetWHITLEY COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGINGINC: $110,599 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC: $106,427 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WHITLEY COUNTY INC: $90,514 over 6y, 11% of budgetWHITLEY COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $88,159 over 3y, 13% of budgetQuesta Education Foundation Inc: $82,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMENS MINISTRIES INCORPORATED: $77,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $72,479 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $70,718 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCHURUBUSCO COMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $61,299 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCOLUMBIA CITY CONNECT INC: $60,798 over 4y, 54% of budgetFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $55,802 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWHITLEY COUNTY 4-H CLUBS INC: $54,320 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetCANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC: $51,681 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTaylor University: $51,091 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $50,122 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTROY Center Inc: $48,379 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetYWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $48,367 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $41,113 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST INDIANA CHRISTIAN ACTION COUNCIL EDUCATIONAL & CHARITABLE FU: $33,514 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $31,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEWISE INC: $29,783 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJoe's Kids Inc: $27,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBOOMERANG BACKPACKS INC: $24,607 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE HOME INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBEAR LAKE CAMP INC: $20,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetHAND IN HAND: $20,176 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDEKALB COUNTY PARENT GROUP FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $18,125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHonor Flight Northeast Indiana Inc: $17,203 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION INC: $16,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM ACADEMY INC: $16,020 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWHITLEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $13,695 over 1y, 58% of budgetFOR THE CHILDREN: $13,050 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFEED ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 RIGHT SIDE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHURUBUSCO COMMUNITY COALITION ↗
  • Who funds CAMP WHITLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds BABE WHITLEY COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Giving Gardens of Indiana Inc ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
  • Who funds WHITLEY COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGINGINC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF WHITLEY COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds WHITLEY COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Questa Education Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR WOMENS MINISTRIES INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds CHURUBUSCO COMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIA CITY CONNECT INC ↗
  • Who funds FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds WHITLEY COUNTY 4-H CLUBS INC ↗
  • Who funds CANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Taylor University ↗

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.

Dekko Foundation IncKosciusko County Comm…English-Bonter-Mitche…Aws Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …Edward M Wilson Found…Surack Family Foundat…Lincoln Financial Fou…Kosciusko 21st Centur…Dr Louis a and Anne B…Parkview Health Syste…McMillen Foundation I…
Dekko Foundation IncIN46.4× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Whitley County Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Whitley County Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Whitley County Community Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Whitley County Community Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 114 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 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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