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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.

$247k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

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4
’21
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’22
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’23
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’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$916kEducation$776kHealth$25kYouth Development$23kFood & Nutrition$20kRecreation & Sports$19kHuman Services$15kCommunity Improvement$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $167,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $247,457 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $79,957 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
21st Century Success Fellowship Program$100,000
Early Literacy Fund for Imagination Library Program$30,000
enFocus Inc$7,500
Downtown South Bend Foundation$7,500
Camp Millhouse Inc$7,500
St Margarets House$7,500
Unity Gardens Inc$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Green Bridge Growers: $8k → 13%Green Bridge Growers: $5k → 13%St Margaret's House: $8k → 13%St Margarets House: $8k → 13%Downtown South Bend Foundation: $8k → 13%enFocus Inc: $8k → 13%Boys & Girls Clubs of St Joseph County: $8k → 13%St Margaret's House: $5k → 13%Reins of Life: $8k → 13%Reins of Life: $5k → 13%Camp Millhouse: $11k → 13%Camp Millhouse Inc: $8k → 13%Early Childhood Education Prgm: $200k → 13%Early Childhood Education Fund at the CFSJC: $200k → 13%21st Century Success Fellowship Prgm: $200k → 13%21st Century Success Fellowship Prgm: $100k → 13%21st Century Success Fellowship Program: $100k → 13%21st Century Success Fellowship Prgm: $100k → 13%Library Fund at the CFSJC: $100k → 13%Early Childhood Education Prgm: $100k → 13%Community Foundation of St Joseph County: $91k → 13%Early Literacy Prgm: $90k → 13%Community Foundation of SJC: $83k → 13%Community Foundation of St Joseph County: $81k → 13%Community Foundation of St Joseph County: $79k → 13%Community Foundation of St Joseph County: $74k → 13%Early Childhood Education Prgm: $46k → 13%Early Literacy Fund for Imagination Library Program: $30k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$99k · 6 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +115% since the first grant, against +70% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$99k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+115%
+70%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHealthHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UG
    Unity Gardens
    3× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +115%
  • SM
    St Margarets House
    3× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +287%
  • CM
    CAMP MILLHOUSE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $19k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA CORRIDOR INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +423%
  • DH
    DISMAS HOUSE OF INDIANA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +70%
  • RI
    Rescue Incorporated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +3%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Bridgewood Farms Inc

Providing assistance to those with mental or physical handicaps which prevent them from living comfortably in society on their own.

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2
Crossroads Industries Inc

Provides work activity for the mentally and physically disabled.

Employment
3
St Joseph County Bridges out of Poverty Inc

Using the Bridges out of Poverty Model, transform St. Joseph County

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4
Empowering Garden Inc

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

Education
5
Bridges Community Services Inc

To develop, coordinate, and proivde housing, social services, and educational programs for low income and moderate income residents of muncie, indiana.

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6
Arch Inc

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…

Human Services
7
Groundwork Indy Inc

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…

Community Improvement
8
St Johns Community Center

to provide food and shelter for the homeless of Detroit

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9
In Return

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…

Human Services
10
Tricycle Gardens

To grow healthy futures through urban agriculture.

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11
Circle of Friends Inc

Enhancing the lives of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through social engagement, supportative employment and attainable housing.

Human Services
12
Counterpoint Inc

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Club of the Northern Indiana Corridor Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $1,674,704 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC+1 more: $7,500 · PhilanthropySt Margarets House: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP MILLHOUSE INC: $18,750 · Recreation & SportsHEROES CAMP INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA CORRIDOR INC: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentUnity Gardens: $20,000 · Food & NutritionREINS OF LIFE INC: $12,500 · OtherDISMAS HOUSE OF INDIANA INC: $5,000 · OtherRescue Incorporated: $5,000 · OtherGreen Bridge Growers: $12,500 · HealthENFOCUS INC: $7,500 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$1,682,204Recreation & Sports$38,750Youth Development$22,500Food & Nutrition$20,000Other$22,500Health$12,500Community Improvement$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $1,674,704 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetUnity Gardens: $20,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSt Margarets House: $20,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCAMP MILLHOUSE INC: $18,750 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetHEROES CAMP INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetREINS OF LIFE INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetENFOCUS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA CORRIDOR INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDISMAS HOUSE OF INDIANA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetRescue Incorporated: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Community Foundation …University of Notre D…Carroll F V Char Tr-M…United Way of St Jose…Asante Foundation IncJudd Leighton Foundat…Muessel Ellison Mem I…Fields Foundation Irr…The Garatoni-Smith Fa…Clark Sa & Fp Mem Fd …The Pokagon Fund IncGs Donor Advised Phil…
Community Foundation of St Joseph County IncIN28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jon and Sonja Laidig Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jon and Sonja Laidig Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Jon and Sonja Laidig 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.

    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 12 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 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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