Dekalb County Community Foundation
Auburn, IN · EIN 35-1992897. Reported 108 grants totalling $2,844,549 to 56 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 Dekalb County Community Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 56 distinct organizations, with 45% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 62% 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 $10,111. Half of what it reported fell between $6,900 and $20,000; the smallest was $5,059 and the largest $1,220,761. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Auburn | Auburn, IN | $1,271,506 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Auburn Automotive Heritage Inc | Auburn, IN | $119,320 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Auburn Presbyterian Church | Auburn, IN | $105,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Dekalb County Outdoor Theater Inc | Auburn, IN | $82,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Auburn Chamber of Commerce Inc | Auburn, IN | $71,552 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Dekalb Humane Society Inc | Auburn, IN | $67,930 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| United Way of Dekalb County Inc | Auburn, IN | $63,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $61,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lifesong for Orphans Inc | Gridley, IL | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Martins Healthcare | Garrett, IN | $55,400 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Young Mens Christian Assoc | Auburn, IN | $51,743 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Garrett Community Center Inc | Garrett, IN | $50,763 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Dekalb County Council on Aging Inc | Auburn, IN | $50,199 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alliance Industries Inc | Garrett, IN | $49,596 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Sonshine Ministries Shelter Ministries | Auburn, IN | $48,960 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ball State University | Muncie, IN | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Junior Achievement of Northern Indiana | Fort Wayne, IN | $39,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Youth for Christ | Fort Wayne, IN | $30,339 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Eckhart Public Library Incorporated | Auburn, IN | $29,300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jackson Township Trustee Grange Hall | Auburn, IN | $29,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Butler Youth Evangelistic Association Inc | Butler, IN | $24,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Southbend United Methodist Church | Gainesville, GA | $24,385 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Dekalb Memorial Hospital Inc | Auburn, IN | $23,586 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Inspiration Ministries Inc | Butler, IN | $23,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $23,150 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry Inc | Garrett, IN | $22,673 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Womens Care Center-Northeast Indiana | Auburn, IN | $21,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Northeastern Center Inc | Kendallville, IN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Warm a Heart Community Outreach | Waterloo, IN | $19,050 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Junior Achievement USA | Colorado Spgs, CO | $18,544 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Image of Hope Ranch Inc | Auburn, IN | $15,950 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Garrett-Keyser-Butler Community School Corporation | Kendallville, IN | $15,800 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Garrett Public Library | Garrett, IN | $13,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dekalb County Horsemens Association | Auburn, IN | $13,311 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Humane Fort Wayne Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Harold W Mcmillen Center for Health Education | Fort Wayne, IN | $12,460 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Fifth House Ensemble | Chicago, IL | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City of Garrett | Garrett, IN | $11,748 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Dekalb County Community Foundation Inc | Auburn, IN | $10,222 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Auburn, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dekalb County Eastern Csd | Butler, IN | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dekalb County Parent Group for Handicapped Children Inc | Auburn, IN | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Town of Saint Joe | St Joe, IN | $8,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Acres Inc | Huntertown, IN | $7,652 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Anthony Wayne Rehabilitation Center for Handicapped & Blind | Fort Wayne, IN | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne | Fort Wayne, IN | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| YWCA Northeast Indiana Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ivy Tech Foundation Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $7,180 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Honor Flight Northeast Indiana Inc | Huntertown, IN | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Automotive and Truck Museum of the United States Inc | Auburn, IN | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Purdue University | Auburn, IN | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Transportation Network Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $6,665 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cancer Services of Allen County Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hearten House | Auburn, IN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Joseph School | Garrett, IN | $5,615 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Waterloo-Grant Township Public Library | Waterloo, IN | $5,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
27 of 56 (48%) 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 33 of 56 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 | 24 | $391,037 | $11,750 |
| 2022 | 29 | $414,084 | $9,000 |
| 2023 | 29 | $445,125 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 26 | $1,594,303 | $10,797 |
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
96% of its giving went to organizations in Indiana. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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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 $10,111 -- 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 Dekalb County Community Foundation'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 26 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: Po Box 111 700 S Main Street, Auburn, IN, 46706.
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