· Private foundation
O'Rourke Schof Family Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k9 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $40,000 |
| PEARL ARTS MUSIC ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF IN | $25,000 |
| TURNSTONE CENTER | $20,000 |
| FORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE | $20,000 |
| CONCORDIA LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $15,000 |
| FORT WAYNE SOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT | $10,000 |
| MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK | $10,000 |
| FORT WAYNE TRAILS | $10,000 |
| MCMILLEN HEALTH | $10,000 |
| ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE | $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 (FY21–26, $174k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
26 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2026, 14 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- FWFORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC7× · 2020–2026 · $285k · revenue +48%
- TCTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC7× · 2020–2026 · $140k · revenue +58%
- CHCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC2× · 2020–2022 · $50k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- PAPearl Arts Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +35%
- VVVINCENT VILLAGE INCone grant, 2025 · $25k · revenue 0%
- NHNeighborhood Health Clinics Incone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
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.
Helping individuals and families with life's changing needs by providing programs and services which will improve their quality of life.
The mission of cardinal services, inc. of indiana is to assist and advocate for people with disabilities and challenges to live lives full of dignity, growth, and opportunity.
Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.
Our mission is to prepare the children of our community for the road ahead. We take a whole-child approach that blends personalized care plans with physical play, social development, and academic readiness.
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.
Goodwill industries of northeast indiana, inc. empowers and prepares people for independence through training, personal growth and work.
Provide services in response to individual need
Easterseals crossroads purpose is to change the way the world defines and views disability by making profound and positive differences in people's lives every day.
Family Voices Indiana's Mission is to support families who have children and youth with health care needs and/or disabilities through eduction, outreach, and community partnerships.
To serve homeless families by uniting faith community volunteers and local agencies in a cooperative effort to provide shelter, meals and compassionate ongoing support to our guests.
Improving the health status of the community at large with special emphasis on those who, because of their poverty, location in rural areas, or for other reasons, have health needs which are not being properly addressed.
Pbs fort wayne engages our community through content and collaborations that educate, inform, inspire, and entertain.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turnstone Center for Children & Adults With Disabilities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cross Connections Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 64 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 FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK OF FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Social Services Inc ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Super Shot Inc ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE JACKET INC ↗
- Who funds Pearl Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
- Who funds VINCENT VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Health Clinics Inc ↗
- Who funds EMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds SPECIALTY TUTORING INC ↗
- Who funds LC NATURE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds AUDIENCES UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK TA ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN HOMES 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: English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Aws Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · McMillen Foundation Inc · Surack Family Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The James 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 O'Rourke Schof Family Foundation 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.