· Community foundation
Crown Point Community Foundation Inc
The organization is an indiana not-for-profit corporation formed to enrich the quality of life in crown point and south lake county indiana by inspiring generosity.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 60 grants below total $1,017,760 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,669,196 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $651,436 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $195k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $560k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $263k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEAN & BARBARA WHITE SOUTHLAKE YMCA | $100,000 |
| FRANCISCAN HEALTH CROWN POINT | $93,947 |
| LAKE COURT HOUSE FOUNDATION | $68,849 |
| BETHEL CHURCH | $40,080 |
| FRANCISCAN HEALTH FOUNDATION - NORTHERN INDIANA | $38,392 |
| NORTHWEST INDIANA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC | $35,239 |
| CROWN POINT COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $33,415 |
| COMMUNITY HELP NETWORK INC | $29,376 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC | $26,629 |
| CROWN POINT COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $26,597 |
| TOWN OF WINFIELD | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIESCATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY | $20,453 |
| CROWN POINT POLICE DEPARTMENT | $18,082 |
| NORTHWEST INDIANA CANCER KIDS FOUNDATION INC | $17,575 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CYCROSSROADS YMCA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $884k · revenue +81%
- FAFRANCISCAN ALLIANCE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $669k · revenue +28%
- LCLAKE COURT HOUSE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $485k · revenue +190% · 63% of their budget
Funded once
- FOFOUNDATIONS OF EAST CHICAGO INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +49%
- CMCENTRAL MIDWEST REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS' CARES INCone grant, 2022 · $38k · revenue -31% · 25% of their budget
- CLCEDAR LAKE ENCHANCEMENT ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2021 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 115 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CROSSROADS YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE COURT HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOREST RIDGE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST INDIANA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CROWN POINT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds St Jude House Inc ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE'S RESIDENTIAL & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HELP NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds TRICREEK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE COALITION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS SAFECHR ↗
- Who funds THE WOMENS CENTER OF NORTHWEST INDIANA ↗
- Who funds CEDAR LAKE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Franciscan Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATIONS OF EAST CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds HIS LOVE MATERNITY MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds MARIAN WAYSIDE SHRINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST INDIANA CANCER KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MIDWEST REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS' CARES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Legacy Foundation Inc · John W Anderson Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Porter County Community Foundation Inc · Lake Area United Way Inc · Community Foundation of Northwest Indiana Inc · Fulk Family Foundation Inc · The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation · Dean & Barbara White Family Foundation Inc · The John & Ann Barney Family Foundation Inc · Sourlis Irrevocable Charitable Trust · Quality Connection
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Crown Point Community Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.