· Private foundation
Zollner Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $510k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINE UNIVERSITY INC | $35,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER FORT WAYNE | $30,000 |
| STILLWATER HOSPICE | $30,000 |
| YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC | $30,000 |
| ANTHONY WAYNE AREA COUNCIL INC | $25,000 |
| YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF | $25,000 |
| SUPER SHOT INC | $20,000 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC | $20,000 |
| HEARCARE CONNECTION INC | $20,000 |
| IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAY | $20,000 |
| FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUT FLORID IN | $15,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH INDIANA MICHIANA IN | $15,000 |
| WORLD BASEBALL ACADEMY INC | $15,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $796k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 27% 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 +56% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 5 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- TUTrine University9× · 2017–2025 · $317k · revenue +135%
- YNYWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +169%
- MYMETROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE7× · 2017–2025 · $210k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- THTHE HISTORY CENTERone grant, 2023 · $70k
- YYMCAone grant, 2023 · $30k
- PUPURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNEone grant, 2023 · $30k
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.
Provide services in response to individual need
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 compassionate, patient-centered care for mind and body that improves the quality of life for our communities.
To meet the special needs of each child and family served in order to help improve their quality of life. the board of trustees and staff members of the home are committed to bringing the highest quality resources available to the…
Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.
The mission of the ymca is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.
Improving the health status of the community at large with special emphasis on those who, because of their poverty, location in rural areas, or for other reasons, have health needs which are not being properly addressed.
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,…
Founded in 1883, brightpoint (formerly known as children's home & aid) is a leading statewide organization supporting families so children can thrive.
Indiana family to family (inf2f) is a unique statewide family-led organization that provides information, training, and peer support to caregivers of children and youth with special health care needs (cyshcn) and the professionals who…
Promote, develop and empower individuals, families, and communities to have healthy relationships and make positive life choices.
The decatur shelby county ymca is a charitable, community service organization that includes men, women, and children of all ages, abilities, income, races and religions. our mission is to put christian principles into practice through…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turnstone Center for Children & Adults With Disabilities Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Society Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% 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 17% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 99 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 Trine University ↗
- Who funds YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Super Shot Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HEARCARE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds ANTHONY WAYNE AREA COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN INDIANA MICHIANA INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORLINK FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Erins House for Grieving Children Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND ↗
- Who funds IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE JACKET INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK OF FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds KATE'S KART INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds WORLD BASEBALL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 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: Edward M Wilson Foundation · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Kuhne Charles Char Fdn T-W Main · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The James Foundation Inc · McMillen Foundation Inc · Do It Best 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 Zollner Foundation 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.
- Parent to Parent of Miami Inc — 13% of income from government
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.