· Private foundation
Irions Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $231k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CULTIVATE FOOD RESCUE | $80,000 |
| SCHOOL CITY OF MISHAWAKA | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ELKHART COUNTY | $50,000 |
| MAPLE CREST FARMSFOOD PANTRIES | $22,037 |
| WOMAN'S CARE CENTER | $20,000 |
| LIFELINE MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| LOVEWAY | $20,000 |
| CAPS | $20,000 |
| 5 STAR LIFE | $20,000 |
| ELKHART HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| BASHOR CHILDREN'S HOME | $20,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT SERV ELK COUNTY | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ELKHART | $19,318 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ELKHART | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ST JOSEPH CO | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
39 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 11 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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
- SCSCHOOL CITY OF MISHAWAKA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2022 · $454k · revenue +80% · 62% of their budget
- CCCULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC3× · 2023–2025 · $185k · revenue +34%
- RIRETA INC8× · 2018–2025 · $160k · revenue +163%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $50k
- MCMAPLE CREST FARMSone grant, 2023 · $45k
- EFELKHART FESTIVALS INCone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -34%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Premier Arts Inc. 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 20 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 75 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 SCHOOL CITY OF MISHAWAKA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC ↗
- Who funds RETA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSING NATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Premier Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds ELKHART EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOVEWAY INC ↗
- Who funds KINDNESS TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTS UNITED FOR BRISTOL INC ↗
- Who funds RYANS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds REAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ELKHART FESTIVALS INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH MISSION OF ELKHART INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZON EDUCATION ALLIANCE 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 Elkhart County Inc · Welter Foundation Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Rex and Alice A Martin Foundation Inc · Bill Deputy Foundation · The Specialized Staffing Charitable Foundation Inc · Crossroads United Way Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Carroll F V Char Tr-Main · United Way of St Joseph County Inc · Everwise Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment 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 Irions 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.
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.