Indiana · Nonprofit
REAL SERVICES INC
REAL SERVICES INC (Indiana) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,430,653 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ($1,215,517). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $21M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $8.8M
What Real Services Inc does
Mission
Real services assists in establishing a community in which those we serve can maintain their independence to the maximum degree possible and find meaning and satisfaction throughout their lives. We offer services in 12 counties across northern indiana, including elkhart, fulton, jasper, kosciusko, lake, laporte, marshall, newton, porter, pulaski, starke, and st. Joseph.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Energy assistance - income eligible households received heating assistance and turn-off avoidance during weather amnesty months. The program provided 12,181 families representing 26,476 people in a five-county area with a credit on their heating bills. The program processed 31,400 payments made directly to electric, heating, and water utility providers and assisted 21 households with furnace repair or replacement services.
$6,049,724 spentof which $5,282,929 as grants29% of program spendingCase management - provided person-centered care management services to 4,995 older adults and individuals with disabilities to support safe and independent living in the community and prevent unnecessary institutional placement.
$4,205,871 spentof which $135,819 as grants20% of program spendingCovid-19 - through the aging and disability vaccine uptake initiative (advc), provided vaccination outreach, education, and supportive services to increase access to covid-19 and flu vaccines for older adults and individuals with disabilities. The initiative reached 285,063 individuals through outreach and education, administered 3,964 vaccines, provided 13,885 supportive service units, and hosted 117 community vaccination events.
$1,190,887 spentof which $751,104 as grants$17,241 earned by the program6% of program spendingWeatherization - (expenses 500,463, including grants of 154,939)- families whose income is below 150% of the poverty level are provided with energy conservation measures to lower fuel consumption and expenses. 23 homes were made more safe and energy efficient. Nutrition - (expenses 2,896,516, including grants of 22,510) - provides low-cost nutritious meals, with recreational activities and informational programs, in centers in st. Joseph, elkhart,laporte, marshall, and starke counties. 255,590 nutritious meals were made,delivered, and enjoyed by 4,452 older adults throughout the region. Donated facilities valued at 122,622 were received but not included in the above expenses. Home and and community services - (expenses 915,111, including grants of 305,297) - served 28,752 individuals through community action programs focused on housing stability, financial empowerment, and basic needs. Services included utility assistance to 26,476 individuals, rental assistance to 1,487 individuals, housing stability case management to 252 individuals, participation by 23 individuals in the ida matched savings program, 68 individuals served through the family development program, and 85…
$9,408,525 spentof which $3,055,008 as grants$582,575 earned by the program45% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $20,855,007.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $13M to $16M (+24%).
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 67% · 2018 85% · 2019 87% · 2020 87% · 2021 87% · 2022 92% · 2023 96% · 2024 93% · 2025 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of REAL SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
John Pendarvis
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $90k → $486k.
12 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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: $935k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Real Services Foundation Inc); $143k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Real Services Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money REAL SERVICES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of REAL SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 funders by total. 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
REAL SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 REAL SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 39% · 2019 45% · 2020 50% · 2021 73% · 2022 23% · 2023 53% — 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
47% of REAL SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
REAL SERVICES INC draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
REAL SERVICES INC's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 21 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding REAL SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$2.1M
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 REAL SERVICES INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Real Services Foundation Inc · exempt
- Real Services Housing Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REAL SERVICES 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 REAL SERVICES INC?
- REAL SERVICES INC (Indiana) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,430,653 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ($1,215,517). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REAL SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $3,430,653 in grants to REAL SERVICES INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REAL SERVICES INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,215,517 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REAL SERVICES 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.
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 48 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