· Private foundation
The Specialized Staffing Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of THE SPECIALIZED STAFFING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $103k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRANGER COMMUNITY CHURCH | $100,175 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MICHIANA | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY | $20,000 |
| WOMEN'S CARE CENTER | $20,000 |
| CHURCH COMMUNITY SERVICES | $14,206 |
| YWCA NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA | $12,250 |
| IVY TECH FOUNDATION | $11,500 |
| LA CASA DE AMISTAD | $5,650 |
| CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR HISTORY | $3,800 |
| COMMUNITY TENNIS ASSOCIATION LEEPER FUND | $3,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ELKHART COUNTY | $2,500 |
| VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA | $819 |
| KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS | $675 |
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 (FY19–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 INC6× · 2019–2024 · $105k · revenue +154%
- ITIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $56k · revenue +82%
- LCLA CASA DE AMISTAD INC6× · 2019–2024 · $53k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- TFTHE FATHERS HOUSE INCone grant, 2020 · $20k
- RTRENEW THE HOPE INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -41%
- FHFATHERS HOUSE OAKLAND INCone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Provide services in response to individual need
Choices of manistee county, inc. provides emergency shelter, crisis intervention, counseling, advocacy, and education to survivors of domestic violence in manistee county, empowering survivors to achieve safety and self-determination.
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
Advocate for and support families who are homeless in our community by providing temporary housing and support services, and by fostering independence.
Hope house of northwest michigan is a non-profit christian maternity home that provides a safe loving residential environment for single expectant young women. through up to two years of residence the organization offers housing baby…
Changing lives through the power of work.
Leading the way in promoting healthy family living by reaching out to underserved populations and those who are in our community.
To promote a violence free atmosphere from domestic and sexual violence in which survivors can recognize their options to have the opportunity to continue living violence free and regain their sense of self-worth; to educate and raise…
Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…
House of hope green bay provides a safe and supportive place where youth and young families with children experiencing homelessness will be come confident, independent, and successful members of our community. house of hope envisions a…
We bring food to neighbors, help vulnerable people find home, and provide empowering employment through our community-supported social enterprise and collaborative partnerships.the 2023 990 was for 10/1-12/31/23 due to an accounting period…
Beacon of hope crisis center is a christ-centered organization empowering victims of domestic violence and sexual assualt to become self-sufficient by providing safety, education, and support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids' Food Basket Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mishawaka Troop Town Inc. 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 29 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 103 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 WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LA CASA DE AMISTAD INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA CORRIDOR INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Beacon Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MICHIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds Logan Community Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds RENEW THE HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH MISSION OF ELKHART INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BEND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Jameson Animal Rescue Ranch ↗
- Who funds VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE WINDOW INC ↗
- Who funds Intrepid Professional Women Network ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDERS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds HEARTS HELPING EMPOWER ADOLESCENTS TO REJECT THOUGHTS OF SUICIDE ↗
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 · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Radiology Inc Foundation · Carroll F V Char Tr-Main · Fields Foundation Irr Tua · The Leep Foundation Inc · United Way of St Joseph County Inc · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · Everwise Foundation Inc · Muessel Ellison Mem Irr Tua
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 The Specialized Staffing Charitable 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.