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NORTHEAST INDIANA FOUNDATION INC

NORTHEAST INDIANA FOUNDATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,077,375 to it, the largest being ENGLISH-BONTER-MITCHELL FDN ($285,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.1M
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$630k
8/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
01What it does

What Northeast Indiana Foundation Inc does

Mission

The northeast indiana foundation's mission is support the partnership through sustained leadership, collaboration, transformative initiatives and the alignment of resources toward shared regional goals.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. In 2025, northeast indiana regional partnership had a very productive and busy year in business attraction. Major activities included assisting with 7 new project announcements in the region totaling 2,354 new projected jobs. Nei sourced 67 new projects; issuing 37 projects to our network local economic development organizations; engaging with 306 site selectors and national brokers which generated 225 new leads both domestically and internationally. The nei team executed 40 total sales missions throughout the year, 35 domestic and 5 international with sales missions including outreach efforts to italy, the united kingdom, germany and japan; conducted 13 targeted digital engagement campaigns; and connected with 306 site consultants and national brokers throughout the year. A robust pipeline of 90 active projects is helping carry momentum into 2026.the business attraction team topped past records by hosting 3 familiarization (fam) tours which brought experienced site consultants and economic developers to the fort wayne area and across the region for unique activities and an exploration of the downtown core.

    $2,253,331 spentof which $308,385 as grants$1,787,194 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,253,331.

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 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2018 Revenue 45 ($522k) Expenses 57 ($852k) Net assets 57 ($572k)2019 Revenue 73 ($840k) Expenses 53 ($800k) Net assets 61 ($612k)2020 Revenue 40 ($464k) Expenses 43 ($652k) Net assets 42 ($423k)2021 Revenue 31 ($352k) Expenses 31 ($472k) Net assets 30 ($303k)2022 Revenue 26 ($297k) Expenses 22 ($325k) Net assets 27 ($275k)2023 Revenue 40 ($455k) Expenses 21 ($313k) Net assets 42 ($417k)2024 Revenue 189 ($2.2M) Expenses 121 ($1.8M) Net assets 76 ($766k)2025 Revenue 184 ($2.1M) Expenses 149 ($2.3M) Net assets 63 ($630k)
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Revenue (184)Expenses (149)Net assets (63)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 2017 to 2018, from $1.3M to $752k (−40%).

$1.3M
$752k
$1.2M
$1.0M
$535k
$512k
$700k
$1.1M
$818k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

15% of NORTHEAST INDIANA FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,444 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$356k
’17
−$330k
’18
$40k
’19
−$189k
’20
−$120k
’21
−$28k
’22
$141k
’23
$349k
’24
−$136k
’25
3.0
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.

Chief executive

Stephane Frijia

President & CEO

Board chair

David Findlay

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed78887561111
Joined·+3+1+0+2+4+1+6+1
No longer listed·21036011
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $190k → $100k.

4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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: $323k from 4 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 NORTHEAST INDIANA FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of NORTHEAST INDIANA FOUNDATION 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

NORTHEAST INDIANA FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

26%
largest funder
57%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 82% · 2019 32% · 2020 61% · 2021 33% · 2022 46% · 2023 45% — growing more concentrated.

“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

0% of NORTHEAST INDIANA FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

NORTHEAST INDIANA FOUNDATION INC draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 6 states in all.

NY
IN
OH
PA
CT
NC

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

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’21
’22
’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $104k 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

NORTHEAST INDIANA FOUNDATION INC's revenue grew 84% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−6% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
83%
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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds NORTHEAST INDIANA FOUNDATION INC?
NORTHEAST INDIANA FOUNDATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,077,375 to it, the largest being ENGLISH-BONTER-MITCHELL FDN ($285,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NORTHEAST INDIANA FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,077,375 in grants to NORTHEAST INDIANA FOUNDATION INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NORTHEAST INDIANA FOUNDATION INC?
ENGLISH-BONTER-MITCHELL FDN is the largest funder on record, with $285,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NORTHEAST INDIANA FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing