Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne, IN · EIN 35-0992067. Reported 83 grants totalling $1,910,001 to 35 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A260) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 35 distinct organizations, with 13% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 71% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $19,612; the smallest was $6,215 and the largest $103,891. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $241,676 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fort Wayne Ballet Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $148,637 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Unity Performing Arts Foundation Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $127,862 | 4 | 2 | 2022 |
| Fort Wayne Dance Collective Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $122,201 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fort Wayne Childrens Choir Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $119,238 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Heartland Sings Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $110,623 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Science Central Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $103,896 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Fort Wayne Cinema Center Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $92,872 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Fort Wayne Youtheatre Incorporated | Fort Wayne, IN | $82,770 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Audiences Unlimited | Fort Wayne, IN | $81,290 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Neighborhood Christian Legal Clinic Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $78,990 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Artlink Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $76,678 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Downtown Angola Coalition Inc | Angola, IN | $60,393 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fort Wayne Trails Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $52,505 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Fort Wayne Museum of Art Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $43,882 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Arch Inc | Ft Wayne, IN | $42,605 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Foundation for Art and Music in Elementary Education Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $42,255 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Fort Wayne Civic Theatre Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $39,612 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Allen Co Ft Wayne Historical Society Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $33,555 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Indiana Institute of Technology Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $25,200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Embassy Theatre Foundation Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $21,533 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Believe in a Dream | Fort Wayne, IN | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Wagon Wheel Theatre Inc | Warsaw, IN | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Fire & Light Productions Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $16,350 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Three Rivers Music Theatre Co | Fort Wayne, IN | $15,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| African-African American Historical Society | Fort Wayne, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| All for One Productions Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Start Fort Wayne Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Saint Francis of Fort Wayne Indiana Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Downtown Fort Wayne | Fort Wayne, IN | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fort Wayne Parks & Recreation | Fort Wayne, IN | $8,628 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Creative Women of the World | Fort Wayne, IN | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fort Wayne Public Television Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Honeywell Foundation Inc | Wabash, IN | $7,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
20 of 35 (57%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 25 of 35 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 17 | $1,176,112 | $75,675 |
| 2022 | 33 | $435,200 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 14 | $133,033 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 19 | $165,656 | $8,628 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Indiana.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 18 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 300 East Main Street, Fort Wayne, IN, 46802.
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