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BE THE EDGE FORT WAYNE INC

BE THE EDGE FORT WAYNE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,365 to it, the largest being SURACK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$210k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$136k
Net assets
$42k
2/5 repeat funders
01What it does

What Be the Edge Fort Wayne Inc does

Mission

We believe business leaders have the skills and drive to grow in their fields. We devote our efforts entirely toward helping them align their leadership, company culture, and business practices with the values and purpose to which jesus calls us all. This gives leaders a foundation to operate from ethical integrity, lead with moral courage, and ingrain their companies with meaning - actually elevating business success over the long term.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

While "the edge" is not a formula or a program, we do offer resources to help you on your journey. The ultimate goal is connection: to enhance your ability to be "the edge" in your environment and provide positive accountability. Resources offered include individual coaching and mentoring, biblical worldview training, iron sharpening small group, the edge "challenge breakfast", chaplaincy service, and the edge partner company program. This year the organization completed 1,250 appointments, held 26 small group sessions, sponsored 1 golf outing, and facilitated 1 the edge challenge breakfast.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of BE THE EDGE FORT WAYNE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

BE THE EDGE FORT WAYNE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

45% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BE THE EDGE FORT WAYNE INC.

55%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of BE THE EDGE FORT WAYNE INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

IN

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BE THE EDGE FORT WAYNE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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In Indiana

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 23%Fundraising 8%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds BE THE EDGE FORT WAYNE INC?
BE THE EDGE FORT WAYNE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,365 to it, the largest being SURACK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BE THE EDGE FORT WAYNE INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $136,365 in grants to BE THE EDGE FORT WAYNE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BE THE EDGE FORT WAYNE INC?
SURACK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BE THE EDGE FORT WAYNE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing