· Private foundation
Barbara and John Phair Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of BARBARA AND JOHN PHAIR FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $116k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Barbara & John Phair Foundation Inc | $34,000 |
| Lourdes Academy of OshKosh | $20,000 |
| South Bend Parks Foundation Inc | $20,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY | $12,000 |
| Mokena Educational Foundation | $10,000 |
| The Villages of Indiana | $10,000 |
| The Children's Center of Cicero-Berwyn | $10,000 |
| SOUTH BEND COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORP | $8,400 |
| Downtown South Bend Foundation | $6,500 |
| Michiana Public Broadcasting Corp | $5,500 |
| POTAWATOMI ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| The History Museum | $5,000 |
| US Soccer Development Fund | $5,000 |
| Friends of the Raclin Murphy Museum | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- PZPOTAWATOMI ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC2× · 2020–2024 · $172k · revenue +53%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA CORRIDOR INC3× · 2020–2023 · $72k · revenue +423%
- VPVENUES PARKS & ARTS FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2024 · $66k · revenue ×15
Funded once
- BHBeacon Health Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +301%
- IWIndiana Wildlife Federationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +26%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE STUDEBAKER FOUNTAINone grant, 2021 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote the education and advancement of art in the city of south bend, st. joseph county, and surrounding areas.
We inspire, entertain, and connect people with the transformative power of orchestral music. as michiana's premiere professional orchestra, the south bend symphony engages the community in the exploration of orchestral music in all its…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Downtown south bend, inc. is committed to the advancement and vitality of downtown through offering business resources, support, initiatives, and incentives; presenting marketing and events to attract visitors; and highlighting downtown as…
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
To become a leading independent research institute in the discovery and development of innovative solutions to improve human health.
We, saint joseph regional medical center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.sjrmc-south bend is a member of saint joseph regional…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Indiana Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trustees of Boston College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds POTAWATOMI ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA CORRIDOR INC ↗
- Who funds VENUES PARKS & ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Villages of Indiana Inc ↗
- Who funds The Children's Center of Cicero-Berwyn ↗
- Who funds Beacon Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN SOUTH BEND INC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Indiana Wildlife Federation ↗
- Who funds O'HANA HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation Of Indiana Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · Carroll F V Char Tr-Main · American Electric Power Foundation · The Rafat and Zoreen Ansari Charitable Foundation Inc · Fields Foundation Irr Tua · Hayes Family Foundation Inc · Clark Sa & Fp Mem Fd Irr Tua · Asante Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Barbara and John Phair Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Barbara and John Phair Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Barbara and John Phair Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.