Indiana · Nonprofit
VISIT FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION INC
VISIT FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being SLEDD FDN DISCRETIONARY ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
VISIT FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,946 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,946 community improvement 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.
- Parkview Health System Inclocalportfolio match
- English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdnshared funderslocal
- James R Shields Private Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
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.
100% of VISIT FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $5k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $381k 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 VISIT FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of VISIT FORT WAYNE 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
VISIT FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% — broadly stable.
“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
VISIT FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 2 funders put you under-funded among the 128 organizations that share them.
- Parkview Health System Inclocalportfolio matchIN · funds 115 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdnshared funderslocalPA · backs 97 organizations that share your funders · funds 112 organizations near you
- James R Shields Private Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rifkin Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brickley Harry Dr Farm Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Saint Michael Archangel Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mirro Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Niel C & Karen M Ellerbrook Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- River City Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lake City Bank Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- City on a Hill Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trusteeshared funderslocalIN · backs 42 organizations that share your funders · funds 57 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 VISIT FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION 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
16% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Fort Wayneallen County Convention · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VISIT FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION 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 VISIT FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION INC?
- VISIT FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being SLEDD FDN DISCRETIONARY ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VISIT FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,000 in grants to VISIT FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of VISIT FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION INC?
- SLEDD FDN DISCRETIONARY is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VISIT FORT WAYNE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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