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FORT WAYNE-ALLEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC

FORT WAYNE-ALLEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $313,100 to it, the largest being AWS FOUNDATION INC ($205,600). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.2M
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$313k
Net assets
$1.9M
2/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%
01What it does

What Fort Wayne-Allen County Economic Development Alliance Inc does

Mission

Creation and retention of quality jobs for the city of fort wayne and allen county residents through the attraction of new employers and the strengthening of existing employers.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Creation and retention of quality jobs for the city of fort wayne and allen county residents through the attraction of new employers and the strengthening of existing employers.

    $1,003,907 spentof which $18,000 as grants$800,000 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,003,907.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($838k) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 103 ($863k) Expenses 95 ($987k) Net assets 89 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 125 ($1.0M) Expenses 76 ($788k) Net assets 111 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 103 ($866k) Expenses 70 ($732k) Net assets 123 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 100 ($837k) Expenses 78 ($813k) Net assets 125 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 130 ($1.1M) Expenses 101 ($1.0M) Net assets 128 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 212 ($1.8M) Expenses 158 ($1.6M) Net assets 139 ($1.6M)2024 Revenue 148 ($1.2M) Expenses 97 ($1.0M) Net assets 159 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (148)Expenses (97)Net assets (159)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $1.1M to $1.4M (+28%).

$1.2M
$1.1M
$1.4M
$1.6M
$1.8M
$1.7M
$1.9M
$2.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 12% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

33% of FORT WAYNE-ALLEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$201k
’17
−$124k
’18
$258k
’19
$134k
’20
$24k
’21
$42k
’22
$133k
’23
$230k
’24
21
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

James E Cook

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed44444444
Joined·+0+2+0+1+0+0+0
No longer listed·0201000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $18k → $22k.

1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $271k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FORT WAYNE-ALLEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC raised.

From the IRS filings of FORT WAYNE-ALLEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE 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

FORT WAYNE-ALLEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

93% 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 FORT WAYNE-ALLEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC.

66%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 91% · 2019 68% · 2020 100% · 2021 94% · 2022 53% · 2023 49% — diversifying over time.

“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

97% of FORT WAYNE-ALLEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

IN
PA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

FORT WAYNE-ALLEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · above the median
Months of reserve20.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
33%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

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Questions and answers

Who funds FORT WAYNE-ALLEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC?
FORT WAYNE-ALLEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $313,100 to it, the largest being AWS FOUNDATION INC ($205,600). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FORT WAYNE-ALLEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $313,100 in grants to FORT WAYNE-ALLEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FORT WAYNE-ALLEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC?
AWS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $205,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FORT WAYNE-ALLEN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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