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CARDINAL SERVICES INC OF INDIANA

CARDINAL SERVICES INC OF INDIANA (Indiana) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,445,024 to it, the largest being AWS FOUNDATION INC ($1,387,041). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$14M
Revenue FY2024
18
Funders on record
$2.4M
Grants received
$27M
Net assets
12/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%

Against its field

CARDINAL SERVICES INC OF INDIANA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,063 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve3.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,063 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($21M) Expenses 100 ($21M) Net assets 100 ($12M)2018 Revenue 110 ($23M) Expenses 102 ($21M) Net assets 115 ($14M)2019 Revenue 112 ($23M) Expenses 105 ($22M) Net assets 128 ($15M)2020 Revenue 116 ($24M) Expenses 105 ($22M) Net assets 148 ($18M)2021 Revenue 110 ($23M) Expenses 92 ($19M) Net assets 164 ($20M)2022 Revenue 126 ($26M) Expenses 106 ($22M) Net assets 182 ($22M)2023 Revenue 125 ($26M) Expenses 106 ($22M) Net assets 215 ($26M)2024 Revenue 67 ($14M) Expenses 61 ($13M) Net assets 229 ($27M)
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Revenue (67)Expenses (61)Net assets (229)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 13% · 2018 13% · 2019 13% · 2020 12% · 2021 28% · 2022 32% · 2023 16% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

22% of CARDINAL SERVICES INC OF INDIANA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$22k
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$1.8M
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$1.5M
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$2.4M
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$3.7M
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$4.2M
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$4.0M
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$1.3M
24
3.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $17k → $416k.

9 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)30% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $460k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Kosciusko County Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CARDINAL SERVICES INC OF INDIANA raised.

From the IRS filings of CARDINAL SERVICES INC OF INDIANA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

CARDINAL SERVICES INC OF INDIANA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

90% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CARDINAL SERVICES INC OF INDIANA.

57%
largest funder
76%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 75% · 2019 34% · 2020 32% · 2021 67% · 2022 69% · 2023 55%growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

60% of CARDINAL SERVICES INC OF INDIANA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

97% of CARDINAL SERVICES INC OF INDIANA's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

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IN
CA
TN
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $738k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 18 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding CARDINAL SERVICES INC OF INDIANA receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17.6M on record.

Federal$17.6M
grants $17.6Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$17.6M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like CARDINAL SERVICES INC OF INDIANA

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Indiana

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 11%Fundraising 1%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

Part of a family of 6 related entities

  • Cardinal Service Holding LLC · disregarded
  • Cardinal Center Development Corporation · exempt
  • Easterseals of Northern Indiana Inc · exempt
  • The Arc of Northeast Indiana Inc Dba Easterseals Arc of Northeast Indiana · exempt
  • Pike Lake Pointe LP · partnership

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARDINAL SERVICES INC OF INDIANA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds CARDINAL SERVICES INC OF INDIANA?
CARDINAL SERVICES INC OF INDIANA (Indiana) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,445,024 to it, the largest being AWS FOUNDATION INC ($1,387,041). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CARDINAL SERVICES INC OF INDIANA have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,445,024 in grants to CARDINAL SERVICES INC OF INDIANA, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CARDINAL SERVICES INC OF INDIANA?
AWS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,387,041 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CARDINAL SERVICES INC OF INDIANA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing