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Jon and Sonja Laidig Foundation Inc
The Jon and Sonja Laidig Foundation supports charitable, religious and educational programs for the benefit of St.
Read this first · the figures below need context
78% of Jon and Sonja Laidig Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of St Joseph County Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $167,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $247,457 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $79,957 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 21st Century Success Fellowship Program | $100,000 |
| Early Literacy Fund for Imagination Library Program | $30,000 |
| Downtown South Bend Foundation | $7,500 |
| Unity Gardens Inc | $7,500 |
| enFocus Inc | $7,500 |
| Camp Millhouse Inc | $7,500 |
| St Margarets House | $7,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your 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 +115% since the first grant, against +70% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- UGUnity Gardens3× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +115%
- SMSt Margarets House3× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +287%
- CMCAMP MILLHOUSE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $19k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA CORRIDOR INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +423%
- DHDISMAS HOUSE OF INDIANA INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +70%
- RIRescue Incorporatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +3%
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.
Providing assistance to those with mental or physical handicaps which prevent them from living comfortably in society on their own.
Provides work activity for the mentally and physically disabled.
Using the Bridges out of Poverty Model, transform St. Joseph County
Provide competitive, integrated employment opportunities for people with a broad range of disabilities in a retail garden center. Our goal is to employ and train individuals with disabilities and place t
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Make known the gifts of people with developmental disabilities, revealed through mutually transforming relationships. To foster an environment in community that responds to the changing needs of our members, while being faithful to the…
GWIs mission is to foster the sustained regeneration, improvement and management of the environment by developing community-based partnerships which empower people, businesses and organizations to promote environmental, economic & social…
to provide food and shelter for the homeless of Detroit
To enahnce the quality of life of persons who have sustained traumatic brain injury or other cognative disorders through providing opportunities for employment, continued education and training related to life issues, health and…
To grow healthy futures through urban agriculture.
Enhancing the lives of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through social engagement, supportative employment and attainable housing.
Counterpoint offers intensive and standard work/day services and supported employment services. Counterpoint also offers three types of residential services: intensive group home, standard group home, and independent living supports.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Club of the Northern Indiana Corridor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dismas House of Indiana Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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.
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Unity Gardens ↗
- Who funds St Margarets House ↗
- Who funds CAMP MILLHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HEROES CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Green Bridge Growers ↗
- Who funds REINS OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN SOUTH BEND INC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENFOCUS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA CORRIDOR INC ↗
- Who funds DISMAS HOUSE OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Rescue Incorporated ↗
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: Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Carroll F V Char Tr-Main · United Way of St Joseph County Inc · Asante Foundation Inc · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · Muessel Ellison Mem Irr Tua · Fields Foundation Irr Tua · The Garatoni-Smith Family Foundation · Clark Sa & Fp Mem Fd Irr Tua · The Pokagon Fund Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 Jon and Sonja Laidig 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.
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