· Private foundation
Muessel Ellison Mem Irr Tua
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| OHANA HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MUSICAL ARTS INDIANA INC | $10,000 |
| CULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING I | $10,000 |
| ST JOSEPH COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $7,500 |
| FAMILY CHILDRENS CENTER | $7,500 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN MICHIANA | $5,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FDN OF OH KY & IN | $5,000 |
| CORVILLA INC | $5,000 |
| LOGAN COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC | $5,000 |
| NEW DAY INTAKE CENTER | $5,000 |
| THE VILLAGE A COMMUNITY MUSICAL ARTS ALL | $5,000 |
| BEACON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| MERRIMANS PLAYHOUSE INC | $5,000 |
| HEROES CAMP INC | $5,000 |
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, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 66% 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.
31 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 9 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- OHO'HANA HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +196%
- LCLA CASA DE AMISTAD INC6× · 2020–2025 · $64k · revenue +155%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA CORRIDOR INC3× · 2020–2022 · $61k · revenue +423%
Funded once
- CMCAMP MILLHOUSE INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -55%
- SVST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY CENTERone grant, 2018 · $15k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ST JOSEPH COone grant, 2019 · $15k
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.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
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.
Mission is to provide necessary resources to persons with disabilities in order to assist them in enhancing their daily lives. we provide pre-vocational training, habilitation services, individual support, and employment services based on…
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
We, saint joseph regional medical center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.sjrmc-south bend is a member of saint joseph regional…
Provide services in response to individual need
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…
At indiana guardianship services, inc., we are dedicated to providing our clients with the same compassion, attention, and patience as our own family. through competence, service, and dignity, we uphold the values of the national…
Beacon, inc, (beacon) is a solutions-driven, anti-poverty nonprofit, dedicated to aiding and empowering people experiencing extreme poverty, especially hunger and homelessness. based in bloomington, in, beacon provides six core programs;…
We, saint joseph regional medical center (sjrmc) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.sjrmc is a member of trinity health.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of St Joseph County Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Day Intake Center. 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 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 61 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 O'HANA HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LA CASA DE AMISTAD INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA CORRIDOR INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE A COMMUNITY MUSICAL ART ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE LGBTQ CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SOCIETY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY RIVERBEND CANCER SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL ARTS INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds HOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN MICHIANA ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BEND YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS ↗
- Who funds MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BEND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT BEGINNINGS FAMILY CHILDCARE INC ↗
- Who funds Unity Gardens ↗
- Who funds CAMP MILLHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Merrimans Playhouse Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY OF NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DAY INTAKE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN INDIANA MICHIANA INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC ↗
- Who funds REINS OF LIFE 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: Carroll F V Char Tr-Main · Clark Sa & Fp Mem Fd Irr Tua · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · Klockow Harvey R and Doris Fdn · Fields Foundation Irr Tua · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · The Pokagon Fund Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc · United Way of St Joseph County 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 Muessel Ellison Mem Irr Tua 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.