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Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc
To improve the quality of life in elkhart county by inspiring generosity
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 301 grants below total $35,295,512 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $37,256,224 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,960,712 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k49 grants · $354k
- $10k–50k141 grants · $2.8M
- $50k–250k80 grants · $8.6M
- $250k+31 grants · $24M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEACON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $2,718,258 |
| BAUGO COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $2,232,046 |
| GOSHEN COLLEGE INC | $2,168,078 |
| TOLSON CENTER INC | $2,040,324 |
| CHILD AND PARENT SERVICES INC | $1,498,418 |
| ELKHART HEALTH FITNESS AND AQUATICS INC | $1,261,099 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ELKHART COUNTY INC | $1,020,586 |
| WELLFIELD BOTANIC GARDENS INC | $963,795 |
| RETA INC | $851,850 |
| RILEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $773,962 |
| OAKLAWN PSYCHIATRIC CENTER INC | $705,900 |
| ELKHART COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT | $646,000 |
| ULEAD INC | $559,750 |
| NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION | $500,099 |
| RUTHMERE FOUNDATION INC | $457,872 |
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 (FY17–25, $11.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +30% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
350 repeat relationships — 233 still active in FY2025, 117 since wound down; 57 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M 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
- WBWELLFIELD BOTANIC GARDENS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $13M · revenue +71% · 97% of their budget
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ELKHART COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +43% · 35% of their budget
- GCGoshen College Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $5.5M · revenue +193%
Funded once
- NPNAPPANEE POWER FROM THE PAST INCone grant, 2019 · $187k · revenue -29% · 92% of their budget
- OHOneWorld Healthone grant, 2022 · $184k · revenue +16%
- MTMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $184k · revenue +14%
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.
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…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
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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.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
The organization was organized for the benefit and support of its related 501(c)(3) health care entities which provide medical care to restore, maintain and improve the health of the community in which it serves.
To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in and the most unlike its peers is The Dre Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
445 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 445 of the 639 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ELKHART HEALTH FITNESS & AQUATICS INC ↗
- Who funds TOLSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WELLFIELD BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Goshen College Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND PARENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ELKHART COUNTY YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZON EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ETHOS INC ↗
- Who funds ULEAD INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Beacon Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GOSHEN THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The Ruthmere Foundation ↗
- Who funds OAKLAWN PSYCHIATRIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ELKHART COU ↗
- Who funds Bashor Home of The United Methodist Church Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
- Who funds RETA INC ↗
- Who funds Goshen Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MAPLE CITY HEALTH CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Goshen Hospital Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Greater Elkhart Chamber of Commerce Inc ↗
- Who funds LACASA OF GOSHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Premier Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds ADEC INC ↗
- Who funds WAKARUSA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BEND ELKHART REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAITH MISSION OF ELKHART INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS UNITED WAY 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: Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · Crossroads United Way Inc · Bill Deputy Foundation · Welter Foundation Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · Rex and Alice A Martin Foundation Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Irions Foundation Inc · United Way of St Joseph County Inc · Elkhart General Hospital Inc · Asante 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 Community Foundation of Elkhart County 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.
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.