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Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$749k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
45
Grants FY2025
33
Organizations funded FY2024
21%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$13,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
25 to 35
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$195k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving32$749k22%
FY202433$739k21%
FY202325$756k12%
FY202232$734k31%
FY202130$739k33%
FY202035$745kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$772kHousing & Shelter$735kHealth$594kAnimals$540kYouth Development$522kCrime & Legal$196kFood & Nutrition$152kRecreation & Sports$56kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 36 grantees
All grantees of Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Salvation Army$482,5006n/a
Open Door Community Alliance Inc$275,000632%
Citizens Concerned for the Homeless Inc$242,476610%
Reins of Life Inc$231,00064%
North Central Community Action Agencies Inc$217,00061%
Paladin Inc$200,00050%
Boys & Girls Clubs of la Porte County Inc$197,50067%
Interfaith Community Pads Inc$195,000514%
Stepping Stone Shelter for Women Inc$135,000212%
Laporte County Meals on Wheels Inc$126,85054%
Family Advocates Inc$121,00046%
Dunebrook Inc$121,00061%
Fly High Youth Services Incorporated$107,000552%
Anthony Adams House$98,000534%
Soul Steppers Drill Team$77,0004n/a
Helping Our People Excel Inc$40,0002n/a
Catholic Charities Diocese of Gary$35,00031%
Samaritan Counseling Center on the Ridge Inc$25,500312%
Homeward Bound Inc$20,000221%
The Jack and Shirley Lubeznik Center for the Arts$19,50041%
Service League of Michigan City IN Inc$18,100227%
Youth Service Bureau of la Porte County Inc$15,0001n/a
Indiana Guardianship Services$15,00019%
La Porte Family YMCA$10,0002n/a
Arise and Shine Breakfast Ministry$9,0001n/a
South Shore Nautical Education$9,00024%
Laporte County Symphony Orchestra Inc$7,21621%
Michigan City Chamber Music Festival Inc$6,0002n/a
Footlight Players Inc$4,0002n/a
Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana Michiana Inc$3,50020%
Opportunity Enterprises Inc$3,00010%
Iep-Hope Inc$3,0001n/a
Temple Total Fitness$3,0001n/a
Young Audiences of Indiana Inc$3,00010%
Michigan City House of Hope Inc$2,0001n/a
Transformation Learning Center Inc$2,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOpen Door Community Alliance Inc: $275,000 over 6y, 32% of budgetCitizens Concerned for the Homeless Inc: $242,476 over 6y, 10% of budgetReins of Life Inc: $231,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetNorth Central Community Action Agencies Inc: $217,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetPaladin Inc: $200,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of la Porte County Inc: $197,500 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetInterfaith Community Pads Inc: $195,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetStepping Stone Shelter for Women Inc: $135,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetLaporte County Meals on Wheels Inc: $126,850 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetFamily Advocates Inc: $121,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetDunebrook Inc: $121,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetFly High Youth Services Incorporated: $107,000 over 5y, 52% of budgetAnthony Adams House: $98,000 over 5y, 34% of budgetCatholic Charities Diocese of Gary: $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSamaritan Counseling Center on the Ridge Inc: $25,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetHomeward Bound Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetThe Jack and Shirley Lubeznik Center for the Arts: $19,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetService League of Michigan City IN Inc: $18,100 over 2y, 27% of budgetIndiana Guardianship Services: $15,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetSouth Shore Nautical Education: $9,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetLaporte County Symphony Orchestra Inc: $7,216 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGirl Scouts of Northern Indiana Michiana Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOpportunity Enterprises Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Audiences of Indiana Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Healthcare Foundation of la Porte IncIN41.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Healthcare Foundation of la Porte Inc · Unity Foundation of la Porte County · United Way of Greater Laporte County Inc · The Barker Welfare Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · John W Anderson Foundation · Duneland Health Council · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Lilly Endowment Inc · Morgan Family Foundation Inc · Bethany Lutheran Church of Laporte Foundation Inc · Br 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.

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How do I get to Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation?

Find your warmest path to Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation 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.

About Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation

How much does Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation give?
Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation reported 45 grants totaling $749,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 35 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Housing & Shelter (20%), Health (16%).
Who are Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Salvation Army ($483k), Open Door Community Alliance Inc ($275k), Citizens Concerned for the Homeless Inc ($242k).
Does Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Healthcare Foundation of la Porte Inc, Unity Foundation of la Porte County, United Way of Greater Laporte County Inc.
Where is Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation based?
Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation is based in IN.

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 72 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-PF 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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