O'rourke Schof Family Foundation
Fort Wayne, IN · EIN 35-6437238. Reported 93 grants totalling $1,180,000 to 55 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. O'rourke Schof Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $2,500 and the largest $40,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra | Fort Wayne, IN | $180,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Turnstone Center | Fort Wayne, IN | $100,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Pearl Arts Music Academy | Fort Wayne, IN | $65,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| St Mary's Catholic Church | Fort Wayne, IN | $58,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Lutheran Social Services of Indiana | Fort Wayne, IN | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mustard Seed Furniture Bank | Fort Wayne, IN | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| St Patrick's Catholic Church | Fort Wayne, IN | $43,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Fort Wayne Civic Theatre | Fort Wayne, IN | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| St John the Baptist Catholic Church | Fort Wayne, IN | $30,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Community Harvest Food Bank Attn Carmen Cumberland Ceo | Fort Wayne, IN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fort Wayne Zoological Society | Fort Wayne, IN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lutheran Social Services of in | Fort Wayne, IN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Neighborhood Health Clinics | Fort Wayne, IN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pearl Arts Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Vincent Village | Fort Wayne, IN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Blue Jacket Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Embassy Theatre Foundation Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lc Nature Park Inc | Roanoke, IN | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Society of St Vincent De Paul | Fort Wayne, IN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Specialty Tutoring | Fort Wayne, IN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Stillwater Foundation | Fort Wayne, IN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Visiting Nurse | Fort Wayne, IN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Catholic Charities | Fort Wayne, IN | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Early Childhood Alliance | Fort Wayne, IN | $16,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Concordia Lutheran High School | Fort Wayne, IN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Matthew 25 Health and Care | Fort Wayne, IN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Mary's Soup Kitchen | Fort Wayne, IN | $13,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Fort Wayne Trails | Fort Wayne, IN | $12,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Audiences Unlimited Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $10,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne | Fort Wayne, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Cancer Services of Allen County Inc | Forst Wayne, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cancer Services of Northeast Indian | Fort Wayne, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Harvest Food Bank | Fort Wayne, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fort Wayne Society of Saint Vincent | Fort Wayne, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Just Neighbors Interfaith | Fort Wayne, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lutheran Life Village | Fort Wayne, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mcmillen Health | Fort Wayne, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| PBS Fort Wayne | Fort Wayne, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Scan | Fort Wayne, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| History Center | Fort Wayne, IN | $7,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Super Shot Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Alive Community Outreach | Fort Wayne, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cass Housing | Fort Wayne, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Transportation Network | Fort Wayne, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Cross Connections Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fort Wayne Childrens Choir | Fort Wayne, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Fort Wayne Park Foundation Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Give Hear | Fort Wayne, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Iris Family Support Center | Fort Wayne, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Just Neighbors Ihn | Fort Wayne, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Little River Wetlands Project | Fort Wayne, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Long Term Care Ombudsman Program | Fort Wayne, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Redemption House | Fort Wayne, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Vincent House | Fort Wayne, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wellspring Interfaith Social Svcs | Fort Wayne, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
17 of 55 (31%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 46%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Pearl Arts Music Academy
MUSIC EQUIPMENT AND EDUCATION - Embassy Theatre Foundation Inc
WINDOW REPLACEMENT PROJECT - Concordia Lutheran High School
PERFORMING ARTS CENTER RENOVATION - St Mary's Catholic Church
OPERATING SUPPORT & SOUP KITCHEN - Lc Nature Park Inc
EDUCATIONAL SIGNS AND DISPLAYS - Catholic Charities
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS COUNSELING PROGRAM
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 55 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 17 | $228,000 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 20 | $241,500 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 16 | $207,500 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 17 | $228,000 | $10,000 |
| 2025 | 23 | $275,000 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Indiana.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from O'rourke Schof Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 6851 W Jefferson Blvd, Fort Wayne, IN, 46804. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
EIN 35-6437238 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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