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Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$550k
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Human Services$680kYouth Development$641kHealth$477kArts & Culture$296kCommunity Improvement$259kEducation$238kEmployment$227kHousing & Shelter$188kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $487k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEROES CAMP INC$40,000
DRESS FOR SUCCESS MICHIANA INC$37,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN$25,000
OPERATION WARM INC$25,000
YOUTH SERVIC BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNT I$25,000
OHANA HERITAGE FOUNDATION$20,000
GIRLS ON THE RUN MICHIANA$20,000
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF$20,000
NEAR NORTHWEST NEIGHBORHOOD$15,000
CORVILLA INC$15,000
REINS OF LIFE INC$15,000
IVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE$15,000
MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING$15,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN INDIANA MICHIANA$15,000
LA CASA DE AMISTAD INC$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $398k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OPERATION WARM INC: $25k → 6%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $15k → 14%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF: $20k → 15%OPERATION WARM INC: $20k → 6%OPERATION WARM INC: $15k → 6%OPERATION WARM INC: $10k → 6%OPERATION WARM INC: $10k → 6%SCAN INC: $10k → 12%YOUTH SERVIC BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNT I: $25k → 13%SCAN INC: $10k → 12%THE LGBTQ CENTER INC: $15k → 13%THE LGBTQ CENTER INC: $10k → 13%HANNAH'S HOUSE INC: $6k → 13%REAL SERVICES INC: $35k → 13%THE LGBTQ CENTER INC: $15k → 13%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 13%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $10k → 13%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY: $50k → 13%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY: $35k → 13%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY: $25k → 13%CORVILLA INC: $15k → 13%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY: $13k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WI
MI
NY
SD
IN
OH
PA
CO
VA
DC
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 43 repeat orgs$637k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

43 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
32

Total granted

$2.6M
$492k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+13%

Still filing today

81%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • DF
    DRESS FOR SUCCESS MICHIANA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $217k · revenue +20% · 50% of their budget
  • LC
    Logan Community Resources Inc
    6× · 2018–2024 · $214k · revenue +64%
  • HC
    HEROES CAMP INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $180k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • CM
    CAMP MILLHOUSE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +1%
  • PZ
    POTAWATOMI ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +33%
  • SF
    Scholarship Foundation of St Joseph County
    one grant, 2023 · $34k · revenue -17%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center- South Bend Campus Inc

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…

Health
2
St Joseph Missions Inc

To provide emergency shelter and resources for single homeless women, regardless of their faith, in an environment that respects their dignity as human persons, affords them the opportunity to live indivdiually and collectively with others…

Philanthropy
3
Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center Inc

We, saint joseph regional medical center (sjrmc) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.sjrmc is a member of trinity health.

Health
4
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
5
The Arc of Northwest Indiana Inc

Mission is to provide necessary resources to persons with disabilities in order to assist them in enhancing their daily lives. we provide pre-vocational training, habilitation services, individual support, and employment services based on…

Human Services
6
New Hope of Indiana Inc

New hope of indiana, inc. is a leader in providing holistic services and resources to persons with disabilities and their families while advocating to advance the opportunities for those in need of support.

—
7
Michiana Partnership Inc

The south bend - elkhart regional partnership focuses on a long-term systemic approach to advance the region's economy by aligning the efforts of various stakeholders around five key areas: educating a world-class workforce, recruiting and…

Community Improvement
8
St Jude House Inc

MISSION - ST. JUDE HOUSE, Inc. (St. Jude House) IS a family violence prevention center and shelter; our mission is TO CELEBRATE LIFE AND SERVE WITH JOY. Vision - St. Jude House is a catalyst in Northwest Indiana for the prevention,…

Housing & Shelter
9
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
10
Our Hospice of South Central Indiana Inc

Our hospice of south central indiana, inc. (ohsci) is an independent, not-for-profit organization providing services to the terminally ill in a 22-county service area. since its inception 44 years ago, hospice has expanded to meet the…

Human Services
11
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
12
University of Indianapolis

The University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of St Joseph County Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Day Intake Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr13%9%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr15%14%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr19%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%11%5–10yr18%15%10–20yr15%17%20–35yr14%28%35–55yr19%29%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/72
the rest of the field
11%
471/4,357

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 92 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/66
Grantees still filing
40/66
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Logan Community Resources Inc — $213,800 · OtherLogan Community Resources IncTHE SALVATION ARMY — $171,200 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYJEWISH FEDERATION OF ST JOSEPH VALLEY INC — $88,000 · OtherREINS OF LIFE INC — $80,000 · OtherNEAR NORTHWEST NEIGHBORHOOD INC — $80,000 · OtherLA CASA DE AMISTAD INC — $72,000 · OtherSOUTH BEND HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $113,500 · OtherSOUTH BEND HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC+44 more — $960,803 · Other+44 moreYOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC — $147,500 · Human ServicesYOUTH SERVICE B…Operation Warm Inc — $105,000 · Human ServicesOperation Warm …REAL SERVICES INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesREAL SERVICES I…THE LGBTQ CENTER INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE LGBTQ CENTE…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $25,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nation…IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesYoung Mens Christian Association of Rome and Floyd County Georgia Inc — $20,000 · Human Services+3 more — $30,500 · Human Services+3 moreHEROES CAMP INC — $180,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEROES CAM…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA CORRIDOR INC — $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND G…GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN INDIANA MICHIANA INC — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUT…FIVE STAR LIFE INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentO'HANA HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · HealthLIFE TREATMENT CENTERS INC — $55,000 · HealthBeacon Health Foundation Inc — $30,000 · HealthHAROLD W MCMILLEN CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION INC — $16,400 · HealthGreen Bridge Growers — $10,000 · HealthNEW DAY INTAKE CENTER — $10,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN — $10,000 · Health+1 more — $5,000 · HealthDRESS FOR SUCCESS MICHIANA INC — $216,733 · EmploymentCULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC — $10,000 · EmploymentMICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION — $60,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH BEND MUSEUM OF ART — $56,400 · Arts & CultureMerrimans Playhouse Inc — $30,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHERN INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH BEND YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS — $22,500 · Arts & CultureCHILDRENS MUSEUM OF SOUTH BEND INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSTUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $81,000 · EducationTHE VILLAGE A COMMUNITY MUSICAL ART ALLIANCE INC — $35,000 · EducationScholarship Foundation of St Joseph County — $34,100 · EducationIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC — $17,000 · EducationCROSSING NATIONAL INC — $9,500 · Education+4 more — $19,500 · Education
Other$1,779,303Human Services$468,000Youth Development$320,000Health$236,400Employment$226,733Arts & Culture$218,900Education$196,100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS MICHIANA INC — $216,733 over 6y, 50% of budgetLogan Community Resources Inc — $213,800 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHEROES CAMP INC — $180,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetYOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC — $147,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetSOUTH BEND HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $113,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetOperation Warm Inc — $105,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetO'HANA HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA CORRIDOR INC — $90,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF ST JOSEPH VALLEY INC — $88,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $81,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREAL SERVICES INC — $80,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetREINS OF LIFE INC — $80,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetNEAR NORTHWEST NEIGHBORHOOD INC — $80,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetLA CASA DE AMISTAD INC — $72,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetMICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION — $60,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTH BEND MUSEUM OF ART — $56,400 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetLIFE TREATMENT CENTERS INC — $55,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCANCER SOCIETY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY RIVERBEND CANCER SERVICES — $52,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetCAMP MILLHOUSE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetPOTAWATOMI ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN MICHIANA — $50,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $43,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LGBTQ CENTER INC — $40,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetTHE VILLAGE A COMMUNITY MUSICAL ART ALLIANCE INC — $35,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN INDIANA MICHIANA INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetScholarship Foundation of St Joseph County — $34,100 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetBeacon Health Foundation Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMISHAWAKA FOOD PANTRY INC — $30,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC — $29,125 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BEACON RESOURCE CENTER INC — $25,141 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetMISHAWAKA PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHERN INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC — $25,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH BEND YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS — $22,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetIRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnity Gardens — $20,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetHAROLD W MCMILLEN CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION INC — $16,400 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIVE STAR LIFE INC — $15,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetOUR LADY OF THE ROAD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetNEW DAY INTAKE CENTER — $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSt Margarets House — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …Muessel Ellison Mem I…Klockow Harvey R and …Clark Sa & Fp Mem Fd …University of Notre D…Fields Foundation Irr…Judd Leighton Foundat…1st Source Bank Found…The Pokagon Fund IncUnited Way of St Jose…Asante Foundation IncEverwise Foundation I…
Community Foundation of St Joseph County IncIN85.4× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · Muessel Ellison Mem Irr Tua · Klockow Harvey R and Doris Fdn · Clark Sa & Fp Mem Fd Irr Tua · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Fields Foundation Irr Tua · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · The Pokagon Fund Inc · United Way of St Joseph County Inc · Asante Foundation Inc · Everwise Foundation 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 Carroll F V Char Tr-Main 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 92 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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