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COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC

EIN 35-1119450 FORT WAYNE, IN

Revenue 2025
$49,647,700
Expenses 2025
$18,941,771

Program services were 84.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T310
Classification
1000
Street
555 E WAYNE ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • R BRADLEY LITTLE

    PRESIDENT &

    Total calculated
    $262,123
    From this org
    $235,815
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,308
    Hours/week
    40 + 3 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $235,815
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $7,357
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,951
    Filer's total
    $262,123

  • HEIDI LUDWIG

    COO

    Total calculated
    $205,237
    From this org
    $179,366
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,871
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $179,366
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $5,706
    Nontaxable benefits
    $20,165
    Filer's total
    $205,237

  • ALISON GERARDOT

    CHIEF IMPACT

    Total calculated
    $159,111
    From this org
    $133,095
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,016
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $133,095
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $4,285
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,731
    Filer's total
    $159,111

  • SARAH KNOCH

    CONTROLLER

    Total calculated
    $112,665
    From this org
    $101,967
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,698
    Hours/week
    40

  • SHERRY EARLY

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 3 related

  • SUSAN WESNER

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 3 related

  • CHRISTINE BOLES

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 3 related

  • ROBERT SLUSSER

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 3 related

  • PAUL O SAUERTEIG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GARY SHEARER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DENITA WASHINGTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHELLEY WALKER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEPHANIE CRANDALL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEPHANIE CARPER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 3 related

  • JASON KNOTHE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 3 related

  • NIKKI QUINTANA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 3 related

  • ZACH BENEDICT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HALLIE CUSTER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAN SWARTZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SARAH SCHENKEL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KODY TINNEL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RONALD MENZE

    CHAIR PART Y

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 3 related

  • EDMOND O'NEAL

    DIRECTOR PAR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAMIAN GOSHEFF

    DIRECTOR PAR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 3 related

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $49,647,700
    Expenses
    $18,941,771
    Contributions
    $25,373,309
    Grants paid
    $14,164,532
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $22,701,309
    Expenses
    $13,600,228
    Contributions
    $13,962,221
    Grants paid
    $10,640,300
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $13,465,182
    Expenses
    $12,123,516
    Contributions
    $8,042,177
    Grants paid
    $9,273,220

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.