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Bethany Lutheran Church of Laporte Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$166k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$151,260
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.1M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Bethany Lutheran Church of Laporte Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$166k83%
FY20242$126k0%
FY20231$106k0%
FY20223$112k67%
FY20216$123k50%
FY20206$85kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$667kArts & Culture$13kHousing & Shelter$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kCrime & Legal$7kEducation$5kHuman Services$3kYouth Development$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Interfaith Community Pads Inc$8,50022%
Laporte County Symphony Orchestra Inc$7,50011%
Family Advocates Inc$2,5001n/a
Laporte County Meals on Wheels Inc$2,50020%
Open Door Health Clinic Inc$1,00010%
La Porte Service League Inc$5001n/a

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($696k), not named here.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Michigan City Community Enrichment CorporationIN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation · Healthcare Foundation of la Porte Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Bethany Lutheran Church of Laporte Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Bethany Lutheran Church of Laporte Foundation Inc

How much does Bethany Lutheran Church of Laporte Foundation Inc give?
Bethany Lutheran Church of Laporte Foundation Inc reported 6 grants totaling $166,260 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Bethany Lutheran Church of Laporte Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (93%), Arts & Culture (2%), Housing & Shelter (1%).
Who are Bethany Lutheran Church of Laporte Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Interfaith Community Pads Inc ($9k), Laporte County Symphony Orchestra Inc ($8k), Family Advocates Inc ($3k).
Does Bethany Lutheran Church of Laporte Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bethany Lutheran Church of Laporte Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bethany Lutheran Church of Laporte Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation, Healthcare Foundation of la Porte Inc, Nisource Charitable Foundation.
Where is Bethany Lutheran Church of Laporte Foundation Inc based?
Bethany Lutheran Church of Laporte Foundation Inc is based in IN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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