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Lagrange County Community Foundation
The mission of the LAGRANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is to inspire and sustain generosity, leadership and service.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of LAGRANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $439,889 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $738,928 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $299,039 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 $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $331k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTVIEW WARRIOR YOUTH BASEBALL | $94,987 |
| LAGRANGE COUNTY AUDITOR | $42,919 |
| ARK ANIMAL RESCUE & ADOPTION INC | $35,700 |
| LAGRANGE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING | $33,000 |
| LAGRANGE COUNTY HOPE | $29,752 |
| LAKELAND SCHOOL CORPORATION | $28,297 |
| LAGRANGE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PARKS | $27,000 |
| LAGRANGE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOP | $25,000 |
| HOWE MILITARY SCHOOL ALUMNI | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC | $17,500 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN IN | $13,335 |
| MENNO-HOF | $12,922 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT LAGRANGE COUNTY | $12,854 |
| CLOTHES & FOOD BASKET OF LAGRANGE | $11,500 |
| STROH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $10,901 |
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 (FY17–25, $218k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +46% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- LCLAGRANGE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC6× · 2017–2025 · $149k · revenue +69%
- EHELIJAH HAVEN CRISIS INTERVENTION CENTER INC7× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +46%
- MIMENNONITE-ANABAPTIST INFORMATION CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $121k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- RORIVER OAKS COMMUNITY CHURCH OF ELKHART INCone grant, 2022 · $90k
- D9DISTRICT 9 - 2one grant, 2020 · $25k
- SMST MARTINS HEALTHCARE INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -7%
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.
Pregnancy care center of lagrange is a christ-centered ministry providing medical and educational services to those facing unplanned pregnancies, encouraging sexual integrity, and empowering individuals to make life affirming choices.
The lagrange-troup county homeless coalition's mission is that no homeless person or at-risk individual or family shall be without proper services when needing assistance.
The lane community health council strives to be in service to the vision of better health, better care, and better value in lane county.
Advocacy and care of physically and sexually abused children in lasalle county. we work with the court system in determining the best placement for children.
The purpose of the organization is to provide life needs to persons of lawrence county, indiana.
To advocate for and provide quality services to people with developmental disabilities and ensure their health, safety and welfare while promoting personal choice and growth.
To operate and maintain a skilled nursing facility and personal care home facility for the elderly and indigent of fayette county and surrounding areas.
The mission of the lancaster county council on aging is to provide a system of coordinated and comprehensive services to enable older persons of lancaster county to continue to maintain their independence.
To provide a full service library for the town of lagrange, ny and the surrounding communities
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…
To serve those in need of food, shelter, and a purpose-filled life.
Provides childcare
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lagrange County Hope Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mongo Community Development Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 55 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 THE HOWE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LAGRANGE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds ELIJAH HAVEN CRISIS INTERVENTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MENNONITE-ANABAPTIST INFORMATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
- Who funds LAGRANGE COUNTY HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE FARM PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds LAGRANGE COUNTY TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds CLOTHES & FOOD BASKET OF LAGRANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds STROH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds ARK ANIMAL RESCUE & ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds LAGRANGE COMMUNITIES YOUTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds LAGRANGE COUNTY 4H CLUB ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPA INC ↗
- Who funds LAGRANGE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds BOOMERANG BACKPACKS INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARTINS HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN INDIANA CASA INC ↗
- Who funds ARC OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds LAGRANGE BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds COFFEE & CREAM OF SOUTH MILFORD INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION ↗
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: Dekko Foundation Inc · Crossroads United Way Inc · Steuben County Community Foundation · Noble County Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Dekalb County Inc · Dekalb County Community Foundation Inc · Olive B Cole Foundation Inc · Kosciusko County Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Flagstar Foundation Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Lilly Endowment 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 Lagrange County 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.