· Private foundation
Oliver & Cunningham Fam Fdn-Main
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $330k
- $250k+1 grant · $264k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHERN IND HISTORICAL SOC FDN | $264,150 |
| UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC | $30,000 |
| MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES IN MICHI | $25,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP FDN OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY IN | $25,000 |
| CHILDRENS DISPENSARY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATIO | $22,500 |
| RAY BIRD MINISTRIES INC | $20,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTER FOR HOSPIC | $15,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $15,000 |
| LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN INDIANA | $12,500 |
| ST MARGARET'S HOUSE | $12,500 |
| BETHEL UNIVERSITY INC | $12,500 |
| YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY | $12,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against -66% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 9 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- RBRay Bird Ministries7× · 2019–2025 · $200k · revenue +351%
- UWUNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $165k · revenue +32%
- PRPOINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY3× · 2019–2021 · $160k · revenue +165%
Funded once
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESone grant, 2023 · $25k
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OFone grant, 2024 · $25k
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF INDIAone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
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…
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.
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…
Benefit, perform, and carry out the charitable, educational, and other exempt purposes of indiana university health ball memorial hospital, inc. ("iu health ball memorial hospital") and related organizations, and to support activities…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Bridging the gap between early-stage innovation and commercial application. partnering to de-risk, develop and scale-up discoveries into commercially-viable technology packages.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
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 Medlendorg. 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 52 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 11% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 41 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 MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ray Bird Ministries ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds POINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds Scholarship Foundation of St Joseph County ↗
- Who funds BETHEL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DISPENSARY AND HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MICHIANA INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
- Who funds STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BEND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POTAWATOMI ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Independent Colleges of Indiana Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BEND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds St Margarets House ↗
- Who funds MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MEDLENDORG ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE 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: Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Lilly Endowment Inc · Carroll F V Char Tr-Main · Asante Foundation Inc · Hayes Family Foundation Inc · The Pokagon Fund Inc · Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Cressy 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 Oliver & Cunningham Fam Fdn-Main 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.