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· Public charity

Lake Area United Way Inc

To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community to advance the common good.

$3.1M
Granted FY2021
33
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$864k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Human Services$3.2MHealth$755kFood & Nutrition$726kYouth Development$713kPublic Safety & Disaster$297kCommunity Improvement$295kEducation$209kPhilanthropy$140kOther$0
02FY2021 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 33 grants below total $2,780,369, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,088,573 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $308,204 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 · FY2021

  • Under $10k6 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $345k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $685k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.7M
$25,629
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SALVATION ARMY$864,127
THE FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA$463,100
CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF GARY$378,798
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NWI INC$115,196
MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LAKE COUNTY INC$100,537
CROSSROADS YMCA INC$100,443
NORTHWEST INDIANA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP (2-1-1)$85,616
MEALS ON WHEELS OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC$80,825
GEMINUS CORPORATION$80,445
TRADEWINDS$67,401
NORTHWEST INDIANA REINVESTMENT ALLIANCE$55,000
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DISTRICT COUNCIL GARY$35,000
GREATER HAMMOND COMMUNITY SERVICES$30,285
HEALTHLINC INC$30,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC$27,512
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%URBAN LEAGUE OF NWI: $34k → 15%URBAN LEAGUE OF NWI: $23k → 15%URBAN LEAGUE OF NWI: $15k → 15%CROSSROADS YMCA: $89k → 15%METRO COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $8k → 15%CROSSROADS YMCA: $32k → 15%CROSSROADS YMCA INC: $100k → 15%CROSSROADS YMCA: $50k → 15%FAIR HAVEN CENTER FOR WOMEN: $10k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF GARY: $379k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF GARY: $180k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF GARY: $145k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF GARY: $65k → 15%GARY NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $51k → 15%YWCA OF NWI: $42k → 15%GARY NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $34k → 15%YWCA OF NWI: $28k → 15%SOJOURNER TRUTH HOUSE INC: $25k → 15%CRISIS CENTER: $32k → 15%CRISIS CENTER: $21k → 15%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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.5M · 28 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2021, 10 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
26

Total granted

$5.5M
$480k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+39%

Still filing today

79%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $765k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • TS
    TRADEWINDS SERVICES INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $321k · revenue +57%
  • NI
    Northwest Indiana Community Action Corporation
    4× · 2017–2021 · $286k · revenue +57%
  • CY
    CROSSROADS YMCA INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $272k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE METHODIST HOSPITALS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue +330% · 85% of their budget
  • PA
    PARENTS AS TEACHERS OF LAKE COUNTY
    one grant, 2017 · $33k
  • PP
    PULASKI PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…

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2
Indiana Association of United Ways Inc

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.

Philanthropy
3
Lifetime Housing Group Inc

Plan, coordinate and provide affordable housing to low-income individuals and families in Southeastern Indiana.

Food & Nutrition
4
Community Action of East Central Indiana

To provide education and assistance to low income, disadvantaged individuals and children.

Human Services
5
Indiana Center for Prevention of Youth Abuse and Suicide

Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.

Youth Development
6
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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7
Indy Hunger Network Inc

The mission of indy hunger network is to address systemic hunger issues and eliminate disparities in the greater indianapolis hunger relief system through collaboration on programs, advocacy, and research.

Food & Nutrition
8
Indiana Guardianship Services

At indiana guardianship services, inc., we are dedicated to providing our clients with the same compassion, attention, and patience as our own family. through competence, service, and dignity, we uphold the values of the national…

Human Services
9
Indiana County Community Action Program

Provide resources for low income clients.

Human Services
10
Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce

To be a voice for business and a forum for the exchange of ideas and through a variety of chamber programs and services, strengthen the economic vitality of east chicago, hammond, and northwest indiana.

Community Improvement
11
Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana Inc

The mission of the fair housing center of central indiana (fhcci) is to facilitate open housing for all people by ensuring the availability of affordable and accessible housing; promoting housing choice and homeownership; advocating for an…

Housing & Shelter
12
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Northwest Indiana Inc; the most unlike its peers is Northwest Indiana Reinvestment Alliance. 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

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 69 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/46
Grantees still filing
31/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $1,095,140 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYBoys and Girls Club of Northwest Indiana: $310,500 · OtherBoys and Girls Club of Northwest IndianaAMERICAN RED CROSS - LAKE COUNTY: $297,232 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS - LAKE COUNTYGREATER HAMMOND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $290,680 · OtherGREATER HAMMOND COMMUNITY SERVICES INCMEALS ON WHEELS OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC: $263,282 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INCMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $222,410 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LAKE COUNTY INC+40 more: $946,691 · Other+40 moreCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF GARY: $769,539 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCE…CROSSROADS YMCA INC: $271,698 · Human ServicesCROSSROADS YMCA INCHAVEN HOUSE INC: $87,953 · Human ServicesHAVEN HOUSE INCGARY NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesGARY NEIGHBORHOOD SERVIC…URBAN LEAGUE OF NW INDIANA INC: $72,400 · Human ServicesYoung Womens Christian Association: $70,000 · Human ServicesCRISIS CENTER INC: $53,000 · Human Services+4 more: $48,450 · Human ServicesTRADEWINDS SERVICES INC: $320,961 · HealthTRADEWIND…THE METHODIST HOSPITALS FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · HealthTHE METHO…SOUTHLAKETRI-CITY MANAGEMENT CORPORATIO DBA GEMINUS CORPORATION: $80,445 · HealthSOUTHLAKE…+1 more: $7,926 · HealthFOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC: $463,100 · Food & NutritionBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC: $220,757 · Youth DevelopmentGirl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana: $102,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentNorthwest Indiana Community Action Corporation: $285,616 · Community ImprovementHAMMOND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $25,000 · Community ImprovementSt Jude House Inc: $124,750 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC: $38,412 · Housing & Shelter
Other$3,425,935Human Services$1,458,040Health$559,332Food & Nutrition$463,100Youth Development$330,257Community Improvement$310,616Housing & Shelter$163,162

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF GARY: $769,539 over 4y, 16% of budgetFOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC: $463,100 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTRADEWINDS SERVICES INC: $320,961 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER HAMMOND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $290,680 over 4y, 12% of budgetNorthwest Indiana Community Action Corporation: $285,616 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCROSSROADS YMCA INC: $271,698 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC: $263,282 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $222,410 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC: $220,757 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITALS FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 85% of budgetSt Jude House Inc: $124,750 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana: $102,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHAVEN HOUSE INC: $87,953 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetSOUTHLAKETRI-CITY MANAGEMENT CORPORATIO DBA GEMINUS CORPORATION: $80,445 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF NW INDIANA INC: $72,400 over 3y, 15% of budgetYoung Womens Christian Association: $70,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC: $68,943 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetIndiana Legal Services Inc: $66,800 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHWEST INDIANA REINVESTMENT ALLIANCE: $55,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCRISIS CENTER INC: $53,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHEALTHLINC INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARING PLACE INC: $45,226 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetHobart Family YMCA Inc: $42,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC: $38,412 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DISTRICT COUNCIL GARY: $35,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetPARENTS AS TEACHERS OF LAKE COUNTY: $33,300 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetSojourner Truth House Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHAMMOND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetBOOKS BRUSHES AND BANDS FOR EDUCATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetSAFE COALITION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS SAFECHR: $22,014 over 1y, 16% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $20,623 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAMMOND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $17,741 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetHESSVILLE LITTLE LEAGUE INC LEAGUE NO 1140207: $15,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MICHIANA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGOLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFAIR HAVEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCAMPAGNA ACADEMY INC: $9,962 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCARMELITE SISTERSHOME FOR GIRLS: $7,926 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EAST CHICAGO INCORPORATED: $7,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER LAFAYETTE: $5,062 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH SHORE ARTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Legacy Foundation IncNisource Charitable F…John W Anderson Found…Crown Point Community…Community Foundation …Porter County Communi…United Way of Northwe…Fulk Family Foundatio…First Financial Found…Early Learning Indian…The Cleveland-Cliffs …The Citizens Savings …
Legacy Foundation IncIN66.9× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Legacy Foundation Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · John W Anderson Foundation · Crown Point Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Northwest Indiana Inc · Porter County Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Northwest Indiana Inc · Fulk Family Foundation Inc · First Financial Foundation · Early Learning Indiana Inc · The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation · The Citizens Savings Foundation

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 Lake Area United Way Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lake Area United Way Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 69 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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