· Public charity
Cressy Foundation Inc
The Cressy Foundation supports charitable, educational, and religious purposes benefitting citizens of St.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $45,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $78,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $33,500 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mishawaka Parks and Recreation Foundation Inc | $35,000 |
| United Way of St Joseph County | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 5 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, 22% 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
- WCWOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $145k · revenue +95%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $135k · revenue +20%
- TMTHE MONTESSORI ACADEMY AT EDISON LAKES INC2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Daytongraduatedone grant, 2020 · $608k · revenue +27%
- TCTHE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF ST JOSE COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $63k · revenue +152%
- LCLogan Community Resources Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +47%
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.
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
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…
Mount st. joseph university is a catholic academic community grounded in the spiritual values and vision of its founders, the sisters of charity. the university educates its students through interdisciplinary liberal arts and professional…
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
Mount mary university, an urban catholic university for women sponsored by the school sisters of notre dame, provides an environment for the development of the whole person. the university encourages leadership, integrity, and a deep sense…
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
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.
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
To be a great catholic university dedicated to excellence in learning, achieved by teaching, research, & scholarly activities in franciscan & liberal arts tradition.
MISSION - ST. JUDE HOUSE, Inc. (St. Jude House) IS a family violence prevention center and shelter; our mission is TO CELEBRATE LIFE AND SERVE WITH JOY. Vision - St. Jude House is a catalyst in Northwest Indiana for the prevention,…
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 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.
18 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. 18 of the 19 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 University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF ST JOSE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MISHAWAKA PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Logan Community Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds POTAWATOMI ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP EBERHART ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE MONTESSORI ACADEMY AT EDISON LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BEND YOUTH HOCKEY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MICHIANA INC ↗
- Who funds St Margarets House ↗
- Who funds MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION ↗
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 St Joseph County Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Asante Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Carroll F V Char Tr-Main · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · The Leep Foundation Inc · United Way of St Joseph County Inc · The Pokagon Fund Inc · Oliver & Cunningham Fam Fdn-Main · Memorial Hospital of South Bend 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 Cressy 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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