· Private foundation
Irions Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CAPS | $20,000 |
| LOVEWAY | $20,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT SERV ELK COUNTY | $20,000 |
| LIFELINE MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| 5 STAR LIFE | $20,000 |
| BASHOR CHILDREN'S HOME | $20,000 |
| ELKHART HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ELKHART | $19,318 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ELKHART | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ST JOSEPH CO | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 REAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds RYANS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ELKHART FESTIVALS INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH MISSION OF ELKHART INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZON EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Irions Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Irions Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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