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Greater Lafayette Community Foundation
The mission of the community foundation of greater lafayette is to inspire, nuture, and practice philanthropy, stewardship, and leadership in the communities we serve.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 88 grants below total $3,063,656 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,763,829 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $700,173 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 $10k24 grants · $180k
- $10k–50k43 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k21 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STAR CITY CHURCH | $217,825 |
| WALLEN BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL CHARIT | $193,500 |
| TIPPECANOE COUNTY PARKS AND REC | $142,655 |
| LONG CENTER | $118,606 |
| ART MUSEUM OF GREATER LAFAYETTE | $89,801 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER LAFAYETTE | $88,229 |
| YWCA OF GREATER LAFAYETTE | $81,268 |
| ROBERT & ELLEN HAAN MUSEUM OF IN AR | $80,152 |
| TIPPECANOE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCI | $77,062 |
| LAFAYETTE FAMILY YMCA | $74,573 |
| FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK | $73,601 |
| HANNA COMMUNITY CENTER | $72,727 |
| RIGHT STEPS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTE | $71,520 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER LAFAYETTE | $64,610 |
| PURDUE FOUNDATION INC | $62,078 |
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, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 72% of Greater Lafayette Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in IN; read by stated purpose it is 31% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
85 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 15 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k 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
- TCTIPPECANOE COUNTY PARK AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +17% · 88% of their budget
- TCTIPPECANOE COUNTY CHILD CARE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $502k · revenue +66%
- WCWABASH CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $487k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- NCNORTHWEST CENTRAL INDIANA COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $145k · revenue +375% · 53% of their budget
- TOTOWN OF BROOKSTONone grant, 2022 · $49k
- WCWHITE COUNTY ANIMAL WELLNESS CENTER INCORPORATEDone grant, 2022 · $49k
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.
Chamber of commerce for laporte, indiana
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
To serve as a catalyst for collaboration and innovation in la porte county to achieve equity, financial stability, educational advancement and personal well-being for our youth, families and neighbors.
An agribusiness network advocate, representing members' interests within all levels of government and keeping members informed of the latest industry trends and news.
To recruit new business and industry into the laporte county area and combat community deterioration by promoting stability, growth, and development of business and industry.
Indiana united way is the leading voice to advocate, engage, and partner with a strong united way network and key stakeholders to advance human well-being throughout indiana.
To solicit, receive, and provide funds and/or property, and to receive gifts, bequests, and memorials for securing, maintaining, and informing the public about facilities and programs provided by the parks and recreation department of the…
The purpose of the organization is to build houses for families who are financially distressed. this is a local affiliate of habitat for humanity international.
Together, growing a prosperous wabash county.
The organization operates a museum to display antique steam and gasoline engines and related equipment to the general public.
Plan, coordinate and provide affordable housing to low-income individuals and families in Southeastern Indiana.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley Oaks Health Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ouiatenon Preserve Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
101 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 101 of the 142 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 TIPPECANOE COUNTY PARK AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER LAFAYETTE ↗
- Who funds TIPPECANOE COUNTY CHILD CARE INC ↗
- Who funds WABASH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT & ELLEN HAAN MUSEUM OF INDIANA ART INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LAFAYETTE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LAFAYETTE ↗
- Who funds PURDUE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds TIPPECANOE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BAUER FAMILY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds ART MUSEUM OF GREATER LAFAYETTE INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP LAFAYETTE INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT ZION HOUSING AUTHORITY OF HAMMOND ↗
- Who funds LYN TREECE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TIPPECANOE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA WABASH VALLEY REGION INC ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC THEATRE OF GREATER LAFAYETTE ↗
- Who funds WALLEN BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE URBAN MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NICHES LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA CAMP TECUMSEH INC ↗
- Who funds HANNA COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Community Cancer Network Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST CENTRAL INDIANA COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds Mary T Klinker Veteran Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Almost Home Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Matrix LifeCare Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LAFAYETTE INC ↗
- Who funds RIGGS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER 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: United Way of Greater Lafayette · North Central Health Services Inc · Sia Foundation Inc · Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation · James K and Mary Jo Risk Family Foundation Inc · Arconic Foundation · Indiana University Health Arnett Inc · The Scheumann Foundation Inc · The Arts Federation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Coffin Family Foundation Inc
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 Greater Lafayette Community Foundation 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.