Indiana · Nonprofit
BE THE EDGE FORT WAYNE INC
BE THE EDGE FORT WAYNE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,365 to it, the largest being SURACK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BE THE EDGE FORT WAYNE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,796 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,796 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdnshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Edward M Wilson Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Mary Cross Tippmann Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
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) — 42% 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 58% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
42% 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.
“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.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdnshared funderslocalportfolio matchPA · backs 104 organizations that share your funders · funds 112 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Edward M Wilson Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchPA · backs 90 organizations that share your funders · funds 100 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mary Cross Tippmann Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchIN · backs 54 organizations that share your funders · funds 77 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- M E Raker Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchIN · backs 69 organizations that share your funders · funds 75 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Flora Dale Krouse Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchPA · backs 54 organizations that share your funders · funds 61 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Waterfield Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchIN · funds 95 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Sledd Fdn Discretionarylocalportfolio matchPA · funds 39 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Leadership Foundationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William M McGlaughlin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ardelle and Theresa Glaze Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trusteeshared funderslocalIN · backs 50 organizations that share your funders · funds 57 organizations near you
- The St Joseph Community Health Foundation Incshared funderslocalIN · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · funds 35 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BE THE EDGE FORT WAYNE INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BE THE EDGE FORT WAYNE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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 $130,365 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 $130,365 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.
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 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing