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Real Services Inc

Real services assists in establishing a community in which those we serve can maintain their independence to the maximum degree possible and find meaning and satisfaction throughout their lives. We offer services in 12 counties across northern indiana, including elkhart, fulton, jasper, kosciusko, lake, laporte, marshall, newton, porter,…

$9.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Itemized grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$1.1M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$38,350
Largest grant, FY2025
$403,037
Organizations funded a year
13 to 18
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$12M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Real Services Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

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Human ServicesHealthCommunity Improvement
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving16$1.1M13%
FY202413$582k0%
FY202313$654k0%
FY202214$633k7%
FY202118$1.1M6%
FY202017$753k6%
FY201916$599k13%
FY201815$559k0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$3.2MFood & Nutrition$1.4MHealth$1.1MPhilanthropy$403kCrime & Legal$247kHousing & Shelter$239k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Real Services Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKosciusko County Council on Aging and Aged Inc: $793,458 over 9y, 32% of budgetPaladin Inc: $749,234 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetLaporte County Meals on Wheels Inc: $679,047 over 9y, 18% of budgetCouncil on Aging of Elkhart County Inc: $677,204 over 9y, 14% of budgetThe Center for Hospice & Palliative Care Inc: $442,175 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMarshall County Council on Aging: $430,679 over 9y, 8.8% of budgetCombined Community Services: $405,327 over 9y, 6.0% of budgetUnited Way of St Joseph County Inc: $403,037 over 1y, 12% of budgetThe Window Inc: $316,583 over 9y, 7.9% of budgetIndiana Legal Services Inc: $247,212 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Elkhart Cou: $239,346 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetSt Margarets House: $183,418 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetElkhart Child Development Center Inc: $176,598 over 6y, 8.4% of budgetNorthern Indiana Hispanic Health Coalition Inc: $164,100 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetReal Services Inc: $142,727 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCompassionate Health Center Inc: $115,633 over 9y, 12% of budgetSt Vincent Depaul Society of North Central Indiana Inc: $85,112 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetLa Casa de Amistad Inc: $72,190 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetElkhart General Hospital Inc: $58,909 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarshall County Neighborhood Council: $56,277 over 6y, 4.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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.

Community Foundation of Elkhart County IncIN19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · Klockow Harvey R and Doris Fdn · United Way of St Joseph County Inc · The Pokagon Fund Inc · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation

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.

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About Real Services Inc

How much does Real Services Inc give?
Real Services Inc reported 18 itemized grants totaling $1,108,306, out of $9,224,860 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Real Services Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (49%), Food & Nutrition (21%), Health (16%).
Who are Real Services Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kosciusko County Council on Aging and Aged Inc ($793k), Paladin Inc ($749k), Laporte County Meals on Wheels Inc ($679k).
Does Real Services Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Real Services Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc, Nisource Charitable Foundation, 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx.
Where is Real Services Inc based?
Real Services Inc is based in IN.

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 22 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 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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