- Revenue 2025
- $3,709,383
- Expenses 2025
- $3,648,631
Program services were 0.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 06
- Classification
- 3000
- Street
- 200 EAST MAIN ST 8TH FLOOR
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).
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
GREATER FORT WAYNE (GFW) INC. IS THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION FOR FORT WAYNE & ALLEN COUNTY, INDIANA. AT GFW INC., WE FOCUS ON SUPPORTING LOCAL BUSINESS, ATTRACTING NEW BUSINESS, AND IMPROVING OUR COMMUNITY'S QUALITY OF PLACE TO GROW JOBS, WAGES, AND THE ECONOMY. WE ARE BUILDING A NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED ECONOMY.
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FOR ITS MEMBER/INVESTOR BUSINESSES AND INDIVIDUALS, GFW INC. PROVIDES NETWORKING, EDUCATIONAL, AND PROMOTIONAL OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH A VARIETY OF EVENTS AND PROGRAMS. AT THE END OF 2025, GFW INC. HAD 1400 MEMBERS/INVESTORS. GFW INC.'S SIGNATURE PROGRAMS INCLUDE LEADERSHIP FORT WAYNE, ONBOARD FORT WAYNE, MADEBYME, WOMEN'S NETWORK, AND INTER-CITY VISITS. GFW INC. ADVOCATES FOR BUSINESS AT ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT ON BEHALF OF ITS MEMBERS/INVESTORS. GFW INC. ALSO PROVIDES PROFESSIONAL SERVICES TO THE FORT WAYNE -ALLEN COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITY IN IMPLEMENTING THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR SMITH FIELD AIRPORT AND THE FORT WAYNE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. FORT WAYNE-ALLEN COUNTY IS A COMMUNITY ON THE RISE. OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TEAM ASSISTS WITH BUSINESSES THAT ARE EXPANDING AND/OR LOCATING IN OUR AREA. RESULTS FOR 2025 INCLUDE: 17 PROJECTS, 550+ NEW JOBS, 44 MILLION IN NEW ANNUAL PAYROLL, AND 120.3 BILLION IN PRIVATE INVESTMENT. WE ARE BUILDING A NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED ECONOMY, THANKS TO OUR BUSINESS-FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT, COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP, AND UNDENIABLE MOMENTUM.
As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
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.
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Ramadan Abdul-AzeezRAMADAN ABDUL-AZEEZ
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Andrew BakerANDREW BAKER
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Steve BakerSTEVE BAKER
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Bill BeanBILL BEAN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Dana BerkesDANA BERKES
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Jill BoggsJILL BOGGS
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Matthew BookerMATTHEW BOOKER
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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John BowenJOHN BOWEN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Ian Broad-WhiteIAN BROAD-WHITE
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Therese BrownTHERESE BROWN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Randy BrownRANDY BROWN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Justin BruggerJUSTIN BRUGGER
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
John BurdaJOHN BURDA
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Jeremy CarnahanJEREMY CARNAHAN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Greg ClarkGREG CLARK
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Clifford ClarkeCLIFFORD CLARKE
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Jim CookJIM COOK
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Mark DanielMARK DANIEL
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Jane DehavenJANE DEHAVEN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Eric DoodenERIC DOODEN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Karl EinolfKARL EINOLF
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Ron ElsenbaumerRON ELSENBAUMER
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Tom FreistrofferTOM FREISTROFFER
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Beth GoldsmithBETH GOLDSMITH
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Patti HaysPATTI HAYS
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
The first 25 listed. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2025
- Revenue
- $3,709,383
- Expenses
- $3,648,631
- Contributions
- $373,853
- Grants paid
- $0
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2024
- Revenue
- $3,762,239
- Expenses
- $3,547,960
- Contributions
- $358,973
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $3,524,426
- Expenses
- $3,415,166
- Contributions
- $221,402
- Grants paid
- $102,199
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2022
- Revenue
- $3,043,711
- Expenses
- $3,018,349
- Contributions
- $216,366
- Grants paid
- $0
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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,744,074
- Expenses
- $3,183,589
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,247,547
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,977,796
- Expenses
- $2,828,615
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,869,173
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,271,959
- Expenses
- $3,101,159
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,607,585
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,412,822
- Expenses
- $3,587,041
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,499,223
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.
Grants made
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2023 GRANT FOR FUTURE ECO
Grants received
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$56,280
2023 PROGRAMMING
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$12,500
2022 MATCHING SUB-GRANT TO GATEWAYS 4 GROWTH ROUND V COMMUNITY RECIPIENT
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2024 GENERAL
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$9,000
2023 Sponsorship of three-event series of Legislative forums
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$9,000
2022 Sponsorship of the three Legislative forums
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$9,000
2024 Sponsorship of various events
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2023 CHARITABLE SUPPORT
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
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FW-ALLEN CTY ECONOMIC DEV ALLIANCE
501C3 · CHARITABLE · IN
Taxable family
From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.
Disregarded entities on its 2023 return
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DRAVA LLC
ECONOMIC · IN
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
Not present in the most recent drop.
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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.