Indiana · Nonprofit
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,149,870 to it, the largest being ENGLISH-BONTER-MITCHELL FDN ($405,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.0M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Habitat for Humanity of Greater Fort Wayne Inc does
Mission
Habitat for humanity of greater fort wayne builds simple, decent affordable homes in partnership with those in need of adequate shelter. The organization is an affliate of habitat for humanity international and is dedicated to eliminating substandard housing worldwide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Fourteen (14) homes were completed during the year ended june 30, 2025, and sold at cost to low-income families under interest-free contracts.
$3,521,119 spent$2,284,617 earned by the program51% of program spendingRetail sale of building materials and home furnishings that are donated to the restore and sold to the general public. The proceeds from these sales help to support the mission of the agency to build homes in the greater fort wayne area.
$3,422,967 spent$2,035,843 earned by the program49% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,944,086.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $13M to $11M (−14%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 2% · 2022 3% · 2023 9% · 2024 2% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Dr Karl Einolf
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $211k → $427k.
8 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. 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
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
56% 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 35% · 2019 24% · 2020 21% · 2021 16% · 2022 22% · 2023 15% — 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.
How long its funders stay
46% of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $769k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC
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In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC?
- HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC (Indiana) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,149,870 to it, the largest being ENGLISH-BONTER-MITCHELL FDN ($405,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $3,149,870 in grants to HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC?
- ENGLISH-BONTER-MITCHELL FDN is the largest funder on record, with $405,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 40 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