Indiana · Nonprofit
COUNCIL ON AGING OF ELKHART COUNTY INC
COUNCIL ON AGING OF ELKHART COUNTY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,260,484 to it, the largest being REAL SERVICES INC ($677,204). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $888k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $704k
What Council on Aging of Elkhart County Inc does
Mission
The mission of the council on aging is to support the aging of elkhart county by providing services and resources which fosterwellness, dignity, independence and quality of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Transportation: provides transportation services to older adults for medical, pharmacy,nutritional, banking an dother personal business needs.
$427,509 spent$294,664 earned by the program66% of program spendingIn-home care: provides direct and practical assistance with household management and personal careto assist seniors to remain in a clean, safe, and healthy home environment. Services were providedfor attendant care, homemaking, and caregiver respite.
$30,667 spent$16,914 earned by the program5% of program spendingLife enrichment: provides for a variety of senior services. Senior care management provides freesenior-specific educational, socialization, and exercise activieties. State health insurance(ship) conselors are on-site to assist with medicare insurance enrollment and questions, as wellas proces smedical savings plan applications for premium supplement assitance. Money managementstaff assist with rep payee needs. In addition, tax preparation services are provided
$190,136 spent$104,865 earned by the program29% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $648,312.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $743k to $874k (+18%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 32% · 2018 21% · 2019 22% · 2020 35% · 2021 30% · 2022 22% · 2023 17% · 2024 23% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Tina Fraley
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $122k → $142k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of COUNCIL ON AGING OF ELKHART COUNTY INC’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
COUNCIL ON AGING OF ELKHART COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 COUNCIL ON AGING OF ELKHART COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 57% · 2019 72% · 2020 51% · 2021 46% · 2022 50% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.
“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
67% of COUNCIL ON AGING OF ELKHART COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 88% give in more than one year at all.
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
100% of COUNCIL ON AGING OF ELKHART COUNTY INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $230k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like COUNCIL ON AGING OF ELKHART COUNTY INC
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In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COUNCIL ON AGING OF ELKHART COUNTY INC: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AGING OF ELKHART COUNTY INC?
- COUNCIL ON AGING OF ELKHART COUNTY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,260,484 to it, the largest being REAL SERVICES INC ($677,204). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COUNCIL ON AGING OF ELKHART COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,260,484 in grants to COUNCIL ON AGING OF ELKHART COUNTY INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COUNCIL ON AGING OF ELKHART COUNTY INC?
- REAL SERVICES INC is the largest funder on record, with $677,204 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COUNCIL ON AGING OF ELKHART COUNTY INC 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 funders 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 October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing