· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $1,108,306 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,224,860 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,116,554 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $357k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $344k
- $250k+1 grant · $403k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY | $403,037 |
| LAPORTE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS | $114,036 |
| COUNCIL ON AGING OF ELKHART COUNTY | $106,608 |
| PALADIN INC | $66,437 |
| INDIANA LEGAL SERVICES INC | $56,430 |
| KOSCIUSKO COMMUNITY SENIOR SERVICES | $47,008 |
| KOSCIUSKO COMMUNITY SENIOR SERVICES | $47,008 |
| KROC CENTER | $43,328 |
| COMBINED COMMUNITY SERVICES | $38,350 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF GOSHEN | $36,985 |
| NORTHERN INDIANA HISPANIC HEALTH | $33,000 |
| ELKHART CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $23,748 |
| MARSHALL COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING | $20,450 |
| MARSHALL COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING | $20,450 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - ELKHART CO | $18,667 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 78% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 5 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $446k 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
- PIPALADIN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $749k · revenue +46%
- LCLAPORTE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $679k · revenue +166%
- COCOUNCIL ON AGING OF ELKHART COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $677k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- TCTHE CENTER FOR HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INCone grant, 2021 · $442k · revenue -10%
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.
Working together, our mission is to enhance the quality of life in our communities, generation through generation to assist older adults, persons with disabilities, and persons that have needs, to access opportunities that will allow them…
Provide resources for low income clients.
The Organization's mission is to assist shut-ins, usually the elderly, by delivering hot, nutritious and low-cost meals to them in their homes.
Provide housing for senior citizens of Martin County Indiana
To promote dignity, independence, and advocacy for all older adults and persons with disabilities.
To provide services which enhance the quality of life of Allen County residents age 60 and older so that they may remain living independently in their own homes with dignity and choice as long as possible.
The mission of the lancaster county council on aging is to provide a system of coordinated and comprehensive services to enable older persons of lancaster county to continue to maintain their independence.
Services for senior citizens of posey county, indiana
To coordinate public and private programs promoting and safeguarding the independence and well being of senior citizens of iosco county, michigan.
Pcacs extends a helping hand to seniors, the disabled, and the low income by providing compassionate services to improve their quality of life while maintaining their dignity and independence.
Drawing from religious, business, civic and individual resources, the Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers program works to meet two mutually entwined and equally important purposes: to respond to the ever-growing needs of older and physically…
Meals on wheels is the leading privately funded organization promoting dignity and independent living for the homebound, through volunteer delivery of nutritious meals in the greater indianapolis area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Council On Aging of Elkhart County Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Margarets House. 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 47 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 22 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 KOSCIUSKO COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING AND AGED INC ↗
- Who funds PALADIN INC ↗
- Who funds LAPORTE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AGING OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds COMBINED COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE WINDOW INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana Legal Services Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ELKHART COU ↗
- Who funds St Margarets House ↗
- Who funds ELKHART CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN INDIANA HISPANIC HEALTH COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds REAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASSIONATE HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY OF NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds LA CASA DE AMISTAD INC ↗
- Who funds Elkhart General Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds Marshall County Neighborhood Council ↗
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: 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
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 Real Services Inc 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.