· Private foundation
Duneland Health Council
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $236k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MICHIGAN CITY PARK AND RECREATION DEPT | $50,000 |
| OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY | $40,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $29,500 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY NORTHWEST | $25,000 |
| SAMARITAN COUNSELING | $25,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MICHIGAN CITY | $20,000 |
| IVY TECH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| STEPPING STONE SHELTER | $15,000 |
| CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR THE HOMELESS | $15,000 |
| THE LUBEZNIK CENTER | $12,000 |
| INTREPID PHOENIX | $12,000 |
| DUNEBROOK COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $12,000 |
| SOCIAL LEARNING INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| FAMILY ADVOCATES | $7,500 |
| TANNAHILL COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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 +56% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
- DIDUNEBROOK INC5× · 2020–2024 · $147k · revenue +68%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LA PORTE COUNTY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +273%
- ITIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $94k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- AHADOLESCENT HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2022 · $24k
- HFHEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF LA PORTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +26%
- LBLONG BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2021 · $9k
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.
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
The Organization's mission is to assist shut-ins, usually the elderly, by delivering hot, nutritious and low-cost meals to them in their homes.
To establish places of residence for adults who are developmentally disabled so as to enable them to have available an environment which is condusive to their becoming and remaining productive members in society.
Provide meals for shut-ins or indigent individuals of the community. volunteers deliver to clients monday thru friday.
To plan, coordinate, and provide meals and nutritional services primarily for the elderly, disabled, and low-income individuals in the state of Indiana.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.
The institute for patients' rights conducts research, educates the public, and works to expand and implement tools of empowerment for older adults, people with disabilities, marginalized persons, and their families to combat policy and…
Coordinate health care information by providing a community-wide clinical data and information exchange to the health care community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ivy Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Healthcare Foundation of La Porte Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 36 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 DUNEBROOK INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LA PORTE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTREPID PHOENIX INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds REINS OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL & LEARNING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COMMUNITY PADS INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF LA PORTE INC ↗
- Who funds Service League of Michigan City IN Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds Tannehill Community Soup Kitchen ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation Of Indiana 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: Unity Foundation of la Porte County · Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation · Healthcare Foundation of la Porte Inc · The Barker Welfare Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Br Foundation · United Way of Greater Laporte County Inc · John W Anderson Foundation · Leonard J and Irene Brown Foundation Inc · Porter County Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Duneland Health Council 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.
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