· Private foundation
James K and Mary Jo Risk Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $142k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lafayette Park Foundation | $27,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,600 |
| Food Finders Food Bank | $17,500 |
| Mental Health America -Wabash Valley Region | $11,500 |
| Willowstone Family Services | $10,820 |
| Lyn Treece Boys & Girls Club | $10,000 |
| Christamore House Guild | $10,000 |
| Leadership Lafayette | $10,000 |
| Junior Achievement of Greater Lafayette | $10,000 |
| Heartford House | $10,000 |
| Wabash Center | $9,000 |
| Brightlane Learning | $5,000 |
| Children's Museum of Indianapolis | $5,000 |
| Catherine Peachey Fund | $3,000 |
| The Arts Federation | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- LTLYN TREECE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TIPPECANOE COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +73%
- LLLEADERSHIP LAFAYETTE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +48%
- MHMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA WABASH VALLEY REGION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +535%
Funded once
- PFPurdue Foundation-PALSone grant, 2021 · $10k
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LAFAYETTEone grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue +12%
- SVSPRING VALE CEMETERYone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue -10%
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.
The mission of lafayette industries is to provide meaningful employment opportunities to persons with developmental disabilities and to persons with other disabilities who are 18 years or older.
The purpose of the organization is to build houses for families who are financially distressed. this is a local affiliate of habitat for humanity international.
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.
Direct enterprise zone activities and reinvestment in the city of lafayette, indiana.
To eliminate sub-standard housing and homelessness from lapeer county.
Provide services in response to individual need
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
The mission of lafayette industries is to provide meaningful employment opportunities to persons with developmental disabilities and to persons with other disabilities who are 18 years or older.
To provide temporary housing and other support services to homeless families in the greater Lafayette area of Tippecanoe County, Indiana
Hoosier Families is a non-profit organization that provides Community Based programs for Indiana children and families. Hoosier Families is committed to utilizing evidence-based practices to strengthen, rebuild and reunite the individuals…
Plan, coordinate and provide affordable housing to low-income individuals and families in Southeastern Indiana.
Chamber of commerce for laporte, indiana
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca of Evansville Indiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Spring Vale Cemetery. 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 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 39 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 LAFAYETTE PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LYN TREECE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TIPPECANOE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP LAFAYETTE INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA WABASH VALLEY REGION INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTAMORE HOUSE GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds HOME WITH HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds WABASH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LAFAYETTE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE PEACHEY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE TREE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BAUER FAMILY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF EVANSVILLE INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Heartford House Inc ↗
- Who funds HEROES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA SAGAMORE COUNCIL 162 ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LAFAYETTE ↗
- Who funds SPRING VALE CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds Natalies Second Chance Dog Shelter ↗
- Who funds THOMAS DUNCAN HALL INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST LAFAYETTE PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOYFUL JOURNEY INC ↗
- Who funds DEAF KIDS CODE ↗
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: Greater Lafayette Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Lafayette · North Central Health Services Inc · Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation · Arconic Foundation · Sia Foundation Inc · The Scheumann Foundation Inc · Indiana University Health Arnett Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · The McAllister Foundation · Coffin Family 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 James K and Mary Jo Risk Family 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.