· Private foundation
Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $571k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF MICHIGAN CITY | $100,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LAPORTE COUNTY | $30,000 |
| PALADIN | $30,000 |
| OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY ALLIANCE | $30,000 |
| STEPPING STONE SHELTER | $30,000 |
| STEPPING STONE SHELTER | $30,000 |
| INTERFAITH COMMUNITY PADS INC | $30,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $30,000 |
| ANTHONY ADAMS HOUSE | $28,000 |
| SOUL STEPPERS DRILL TEAM INC | $25,000 |
| FAMILY ADVOCATES INC | $25,000 |
| LAPORTE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC | $25,000 |
| REINS OF LIFE | $25,000 |
| FLY HIGH YOUTH SERVICES | $25,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $820k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in IN; read by stated purpose it is 87% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
40 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- ODOPEN DOOR COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $230k · revenue +95% · 32% of their budget
- CCCITIZENS CONCERNED FOR THE HOMELESS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $213k · revenue +79%
- ICINTERFAITH COMMUNITY PADS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $195k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALAVATION ARMYone grant, 2021 · $20k
- IGINDIANA GUARDIANSHIP SERVICESone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -41%
- IGINDIANA GUARDENSHIP SERVICES INCone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
Provide resources for low income clients.
The Organization's mission is to assist shut-ins, usually the elderly, by delivering hot, nutritious and low-cost meals to them in their homes.
Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.
To provide temporary housing and other support services to homeless families in the greater Lafayette area of Tippecanoe County, Indiana
To develop, coordinate, and proivde housing, social services, and educational programs for low income and moderate income residents of muncie, indiana.
To provide family and individual counseling
Support child advocacy centers in indiana.
To support the charitable, educational and other exempt purposes of the indiana united methodist children's home, inc.
Chamber of commerce for laporte, indiana
The purpose of the organization is to build houses for families who are financially distressed. this is a local affiliate of habitat for humanity international.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Central Community Action Agencies Inc and the most unlike its peers is Michigan City Chamber Music Festival 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 36 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 65 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 OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COMMUNITY PADS INC ↗
- Who funds REINS OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LA PORTE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PALADIN INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONE SHELTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds LAPORTE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds DUNEBROOK INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds FLY HIGH YOUTH SERVICES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ANTHONY ADAMS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER ON THE RIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF GARY ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE JACK AND SHIRLEY LUBEZNIK CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
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: 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
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 Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation 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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