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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.

$155k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$429kArts & Culture$194kYouth Development$173kHealth$93kEducation$92kFood & Nutrition$63kHousing & Shelter$60kRecreation & Sports$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $115k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OHANA HERITAGE FOUNDATION$10,000
CULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING I$10,000
MUSICAL ARTS INDIANA INC$10,000
MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION$10,000
FAMILY CHILDRENS CENTER$7,500
ST JOSEPH COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY$7,500
BEACON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC$5,000
MERRIMANS PLAYHOUSE INC$5,000
UNITED YOUTH THEATRE UYT$5,000
MAKE-A-WISH FDN OF OH KY & IN$5,000
HEROES CAMP INC$5,000
THE FISCHOFF NATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC ASSO$5,000
CORVILLA INC$5,000
ACTING ENSEMBLE INC$5,000
INDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $8k → 14%ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY OF ST JOSEPH C: $15k → 13%INDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%SCAN INC: $10k → 12%INDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%SCAN INC: $10k → 12%SCAN INC: $10k → 12%SCAN INC: $10k → 12%SCAN INC: $10k → 12%THE LGBTQ CENTER INC: $10k → 13%THE LGBTQ CENTER INC: $15k → 13%THE LGBTQ CENTER INC: $10k → 13%THE LGBTQ CENTER INC: $10k → 13%REAL SERVICES INC: $10k → 13%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $3k → 13%CORVILLA INC: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$901k · 31 repeat orgs$237k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
20

Total granted

$901k
$192k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+19%

Still filing today

84%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OH
    O'HANA HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +196%
  • LC
    LA CASA DE AMISTAD INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $64k · revenue +155%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA CORRIDOR INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $61k · revenue +423%

Funded once

  • SV
    ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ST JOSEPH CO
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • RS
    REAL SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Indiana University Health North Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
2
New Hope of Indiana Inc

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.

—
3
The Arc of Northwest Indiana Inc

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…

Human Services
4
Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council Inc

To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.

Human Services
5
Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center- South Bend Campus Inc

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…

Health
6
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
7
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
8
Indiana Guardianship Services

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…

Human Services
9
Beacon Inc

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;…

Education
10
Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center Inc

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.

Health
11
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
12
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of St Joseph County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 61 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
23/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $102,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYLA CASA DE AMISTAD INC: $64,000 · OtherLA CASA DE AMISTAD INCCANCER SOCIETY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY RIVERBEND CANCER SERVICES: $41,000 · OtherCANCER SOCIETY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY RIVERBEND CANCER SE…BOOKS 4 KIDS PROGRAM: $39,000 · OtherBOOKS 4 KIDS PROGRAMFAMILY CHILDRENS CENTER: $26,900 · OtherSt Joseph County Public Library: $24,500 · OtherGIRLS ON THE RUN MICHIANA: $30,000 · OtherGIRLS ON THE RUN MICHIANA+25 more: $229,580 · Other+25 moreIRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesIRIS FAMILY SU…THE LGBTQ CENTER INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesTHE LGBTQ CENT…ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY OF NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DEP…REAL SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesREAL SERVICES …INDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesINDIANA WOMEN …American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $8,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…CORVILLA INC: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesMUSICAL ARTS INDIANA INC: $37,900 · Arts & CultureMUSICAL AR…SOUTH BEND YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH BEND…MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMICHIANA P…SOUTH BEND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH BEND…Merrimans Playhouse Inc: $15,000 · Arts & CultureMerrimans …THE VILLAGE A COMMUNITY MUSICAL ART ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 · EducationTHE VILLAG…University of Notre Dame du Lac: $30,000 · EducationUniversity…BRIGHT BEGINNINGS FAMILY CHILDCARE INC: $15,000 · EducationBRIGHT BEG…GOOD SHEPHERD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationGOOD SHEPH…South Bend Montessori High School Inc: $5,000 · EducationO'HANA HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · HealthO'HANA HER…NEW DAY INTAKE CENTER: $10,000 · HealthNEW DAY IN…Beacon Health Foundation Inc: $7,500 · HealthBeacon Hea…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN: $5,000 · HealthUNITED HEALTH SERVICES INC: $5,000 · HealthBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA CORRIDOR INC: $61,316 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN INDIANA MICHIANA INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEROES CAMP INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentFIVE STAR LIFE INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC: $37,500 · Food & NutritionUnity Gardens: $15,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$557,480Human Services$145,500Arts & Culture$112,900Education$110,000Health$107,500Youth Development$81,316Food & Nutrition$52,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetO'HANA HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetLA CASA DE AMISTAD INC: $64,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA CORRIDOR INC: $61,316 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE VILLAGE A COMMUNITY MUSICAL ART ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetIRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LGBTQ CENTER INC: $45,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetCANCER SOCIETY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY RIVERBEND CANCER SERVICES: $41,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetMUSICAL ARTS INDIANA INC: $37,900 over 4y, 26% of budgetHOOSIERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC: $37,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN MICHIANA: $30,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBRIGHT BEGINNINGS FAMILY CHILDCARE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTH BEND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMerrimans Playhouse Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetUnity Gardens: $15,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCAMP MILLHOUSE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY OF NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $14,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREAL SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN INDIANA MICHIANA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNEW DAY INTAKE CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetREINS OF LIFE INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetACTING ENSEMBLE: $8,460 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetINDIANA GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $8,020 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeacon Health Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEAR NORTHWEST NEIGHBORHOOD INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BEACON RESOURCE CENTER INC: $6,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIVE STAR LIFE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED HEALTH SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLogan Community Resources Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Bend Montessori High School Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDISMAS HOUSE OF INDIANA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

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.

Carroll F V Char Tr-M…Clark Sa & Fp Mem Fd …Community Foundation …Klockow Harvey R and …Fields Foundation Irr…Judd Leighton Foundat…The Pokagon Fund IncUniversity of Notre D…1st Source Bank Found…Community Foundation …United Way of St Jose…Asante Foundation Inc
Carroll F V Char Tr-MainMO79.1× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Muessel Ellison Mem Irr Tua funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Muessel Ellison Mem Irr Tua. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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