· Private foundation
Schurz Communications Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Beacon Health Foundation | $40,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY | $32,000 |
| Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana-Michia | $32,000 |
| NORTHERN INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCITY | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your 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 +32% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC4× · 2019–2025 · $126k · revenue +32%
- YNYWCA NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC2× · 2019–2020 · $100k · revenue +11%
- BHBeacon Health Foundation Inc3× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +441%
Funded once
- SBSOUTH BEND CITY CHURCH INCone grant, 2022 · $25k
- TMTRANSFORMATION MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -51%
- GSGOOD SHEPHERD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +19%
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.
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…
We inspire, entertain, and connect people with the transformative power of orchestral music. as michiana's premiere professional orchestra, the south bend symphony engages the community in the exploration of orchestral music in all its…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Bgci believes that every young person deserves to live a life filled with hope and opportunity. because we care about our young people, we provide a safe, educational, and positive atmosphere where they can prosper and reach their full…
To promote the education and advancement of art in the city of south bend, st. joseph county, and surrounding areas.
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.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us the most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
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Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place.
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 Boys and Girls Club of the Northern Indiana Corridor 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.
13 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. 13 of the 24 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 UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Beacon Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA CORRIDOR INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN INDIANA MICHIANA INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORMATION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds St Margarets House ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BEND YOUTH HOCKEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE A COMMUNITY MUSICAL ART ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BEND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 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: 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Carroll F V Char Tr-Main · Muessel Ellison Mem Irr Tua · Everwise Foundation Inc · Klockow Harvey R and Doris Fdn · Lilly Endowment Inc · Fields Foundation Irr Tua · Clark Sa & Fp Mem Fd Irr Tua · The Leep Foundation Inc · United Way of St Joseph County 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 Schurz Communications Foundation 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.
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