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O'Rourke Schof Family Foundation at a glance

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O'Rourke Schof Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$275k
Granted FY2026still arriving
23
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2026.

Arts & Culture$476kHealth$321kHuman Services$223kReligion$152kFood & Nutrition$125kEducation$72kAnimals$50kHousing & Shelter$40kOther$0
02FY2026 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k9 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $230k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FORT WAYNE TRAILS$10,000
MCMILLEN HEALTH$10,000
MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK$10,000
ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE$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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE: $3k → 12%LUTHERAN LIFE VILLAGES: $10k → 12%MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK: $10k → 12%MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK: $10k → 12%MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK: $10k → 12%MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK: $10k → 12%MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK: $10k → 12%MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK: $10k → 12%EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE: $6k → 12%COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: $5k → 12%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF INDIANA: $25k → 12%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF INDIANA: $20k → 12%SCAN: $10k → 12%SCAN: $10k → 12%EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE: $5k → 12%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF INDIANA: $5k → 12%ALIVE COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $5k → 12%EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE: $5k → 12%IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $5k → 12%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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 26 repeat orgs$398k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
27

Total granted

$1.2M
$293k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+16%

Still filing today

65%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • FW
    FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC
    7× · 2020–2026 · $285k · revenue +48%
  • TC
    TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC
    7× · 2020–2026 · $140k · revenue +58%
  • MS
    MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK OF FORT WAYNE INC
    6× · 2021–2026 · $60k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • NH
    Neighborhood Health Clinics Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • VV
    VINCENT VILLAGE INC
    one grant, 2025 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • PA
    Pearl Arts Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +35%
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
Lifesteps Inc

Helping individuals and families with life's changing needs by providing programs and services which will improve their quality of life.

Education
2
Cardinal Services Inc of Indiana

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.

Education
3
Children's Bureau Inc

Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.

Human Services
4
Little Thinkers Inc

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.

Human Services
5
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.

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6
Goodwill Industries of Northeast Indiana Inc

Goodwill industries of northeast indiana, inc. empowers and prepares people for independence through training, personal growth and work.

Employment
7
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
8
Crossroads Rehabilitation Center Inc

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.

Health
9
Family to Family Inc dba Family Voices Indiana

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.

—
10
Interfaith Hospitality Network of Greater Fort Wayne Inc

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.

Human Services
11
Indiana Health Centers Inc

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.

Health
12
Fort Wayne Public Television Inc

Pbs fort wayne engages our community through content and collaborations that educate, inform, inspire, and entertain.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turnstone Center for Children & Adults With Disabilities Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
23/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEARL ARTS MUSIC ACADEMY: $65,000 · OtherPEARL ARTS MUSIC ACADEMYST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $63,500 · OtherST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCHDIOCESE OF FT WAYNE SOUTH BEND INC: $53,500 · OtherDIOCESE OF FT WAYNE SOUTH BEND INCST MARY'S SOUP KITCHEN: $49,500 · OtherST MARY'S SOUP KITCHENST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHURCH: $30,000 · OtherLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF IN: $25,000 · OtherSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $25,000 · OtherBLUE JACKET INC: $30,000 · Other+29 more: $288,500 · Other+29 moreFORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $285,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC OR…FORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE I…Pearl Arts Inc: $25,000 · Arts & CulturePearl Arts IncEMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC: $140,000 · HealthTURNSTONE CENTER F…Super Shot Inc: $40,500 · HealthSuper Shot IncNeighborhood Health Clinics Inc: $25,000 · HealthNeighborhood Healt…MATTHEW 25 INC: $25,000 · HealthMATTHEW 25 INC+5 more: $30,000 · Health+5 moreMUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK OF FORT WAYNE INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesMUSTARD SEED…Lutheran Social Services Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesLutheran Soc…IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesIRIS FAMILY …EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC: $19,000 · Human ServicesEARLY CHILDH…LUTHERAN HOMES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN HOM…+2 more: $10,000 · Human Services+2 moreFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $50,000 · AnimalsLC NATURE PARK INC: $20,000 · AnimalsCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK TA: $10,000 · Food & NutritionVINCENT VILLAGE INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterCASS HOUSING INC: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$630,000Arts & Culture$375,000Health$260,500Human Services$174,000Animals$70,000Food & Nutrition$60,000Housing & Shelter$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $285,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC: $140,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK OF FORT WAYNE INC: $60,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLutheran Social Services Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFORT WAYNE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSuper Shot Inc: $40,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFORT WAYNE CIVIC THEATRE INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBLUE JACKET INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetIRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNeighborhood Health Clinics Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVINCENT VILLAGE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPearl Arts Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMATTHEW 25 INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLC NATURE PARK INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetEMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIALTY TUTORING INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC: $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFORT WAYNE CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC: $13,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFORT WAYNE TRAILS INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAUDIENCES UNLIMITED INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLUTHERAN HOMES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASS HOUSING INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOPE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWELLSPRING INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARCARE CONNECTION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCross Connections Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALIVE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

  • 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 IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Neighborhood Health Clinics Inc ↗
  • Who funds VINCENT VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds Pearl Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
  • Who funds LC NATURE PARK INC ↗
  • Who funds EMBASSY THEATRE FOUNDATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIALTY TUTORING 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 COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK TA ↗
  • Who funds CANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN HOMES INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE 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.

English-Bonter-Mitche…Edward M Wilson Found…Community Foundation …M E Raker Foundation …Howard P Arnold Found…Aws Foundation IncDr Louis a and Anne B…The Waterfield Founda…McMillen Foundation I…Surack Family Foundat…Lincoln Financial Fou…The James Foundation …
English-Bonter-Mitchell FdnPA72.3× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 O'Rourke Schof Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from O'Rourke Schof Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 64 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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