Indiana · Private foundation
Irions Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $494k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Irions Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 34 | $444k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $487k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $465k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $443k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $338k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $341k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $631k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $249k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| School City of Mishawaka Education Foundation Inc | $453,500 | 5 | 62% |
| Life Line Ministries Incorporated | $190,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Cultivate Culinary School and Catering Inc | $185,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Reta Inc | $160,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Elkhart County Inc | $110,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Crossing National Inc | $85,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Premier Arts Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Salvation Army | $55,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Elkhart Education Foundation | $55,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Loveway Inc | $50,000 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Irions Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
About Irions Foundation Inc
- How much does Irions Foundation Inc give?
- Irions Foundation Inc reported 35 grants totaling $493,783 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Irions Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Human Services (21%), Religion (10%).
- Who are Irions Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: School City of Mishawaka Education Foundation Inc ($454k), Life Line Ministries Incorporated ($190k), Cultivate Culinary School and Catering Inc ($185k).
- Does Irions Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Irions Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Irions Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc, Welter Foundation Inc, 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx.
- Where is Irions Foundation Inc based?
- Irions Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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