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CANI S CENTER FOR COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

EIN 45-3914271 FORT WAYNE, IN

Revenue 2024
$2,413,446
Expenses 2024
$1,450,082

Program services were 92.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
L80
Classification
1200
Street
227 EAST WASHINGTON BOULEVARD

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

CANI'S CENTER FOR COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, INC. D/B/A BRIGHTPOINT DEVELOPMENT FUND WAS ORGANIZED AS A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL INSTITUTION TO HELP COMMUNITIES IN NEED ACHIEVE ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE FEDERAL LAW REGARDING THE ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATIONS OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PERFORM THE FUNCTIONS OF, OR TO CARRY OUT THE PURPOSES PRIMARILY OF COMMUNITY ACTION OF NORTHEAST INDIANA, INC. ("CANI").

  • BRIGHTPOINT DEVELOPMENT FUND PROMOTES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AS A FINANCING ENTITY SERVING DISTRESSED COMMUNITIES OR THOSE UNDERSERVED BY FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND PROVIDING, AT NO COST OR BELOW MARKET, DEVELOPMENT SERVICES IN CONJUNCTION WITH ITS FINANCING ACTIVITIES AS DETERMINED WITH ACCOUNTABILITY TO ITS SERVICE MARKET.

    Expenses $1,339,447 · Grants $50 · Revenue $124,383

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Stephen Hoffman

    BOARD PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $256,595
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $214,146
    Other
    $42,449
    Hours/week
    2 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $214,021 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $125 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $5,350 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $37,099 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $256,595 related
  • Veronica Mertz

    BOARD TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $180,801
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $147,764
    Other
    $33,037
    Hours/week
    2 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $145,518 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $2,246 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $9,150 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $23,887 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $180,801 related
  • Pamela Brookshire

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $171,464
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $148,820
    Other
    $22,644
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $146,598 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $2,222 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $3,790 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $18,854 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $171,464 related
  • Matthew Crouch

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $180,959
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $150,583
    Other
    $30,376
    Hours/week
    2 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $150,583 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $1,577 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $28,799 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $180,959 related
  • Jesse Beasley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Stephen Blevins

    DIRECTOR (TERMED)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rohli Booker

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lajuana Dunbar

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Shad Edwards

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Andrea Ehresman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dawn Gallaway

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Kessler

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tim Kuhnen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Justin Libey

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joe Martin

    DIRECTOR (TERMED)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mitch Sheppard

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Cecile Weir

    DIRECTOR (TERMED)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,413,446
    Expenses
    $1,450,082
    Contributions
    $1,963,634
    Grants paid
    $50
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $719,520
    Expenses
    $816,385
    Contributions
    $592,322
    Grants paid
    $259

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $817,071
    Expenses
    $791,492
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,436,369
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $458,705
    Expenses
    $471,883
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,416,148
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $111,318
    Expenses
    $92,530
    Assets (EOY)
    $964,078
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $98,666
    Expenses
    $215,542
    Assets (EOY)
    $932,300
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $508,844
    Expenses
    $113,203
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,027,910
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $543,926
    Expenses
    $249,413
    Assets (EOY)
    $668,276
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $312,814
    Expenses
    $183,161
    Assets (EOY)
    $507,491
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $235,724
    Expenses
    $248,306
    Assets (EOY)
    $221,663
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $212,486
    Expenses
    $226,889
    Assets (EOY)
    $205,796
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $202,944
    Assets (EOY)
    $217,050

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. 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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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 2024 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 13 October 2026, under deductibility SO.

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.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.