· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $577k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF MICHIGAN CITY | $100,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $30,000 |
| STEPPING STONE SHELTER | $30,000 |
| REINS OF LIFE | $30,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $30,000 |
| NEST COMMUNITY SHELTER | $30,000 |
| PALADIN | $30,000 |
| STEPPING STONE SHELTER | $30,000 |
| OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY ALLIANCE | $30,000 |
| ANTHONY ADAMS HOUSE | $30,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF LAPORTE COUNTY INC | $27,500 |
| FAMILY ADVOCATES INC | $25,000 |
| SOUL STEPPERS DRILL TEAM INC | $25,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF LA PORTE COUNTY | $25,000 |
| NORTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $934k) 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in IN; by stated purpose, 87%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 7 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ODOPEN DOOR COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $275k · revenue +95% · 32% of their budget
- CCCITIZENS CONCERNED FOR THE HOMELESS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $242k · revenue +79%
- ROREINS OF LIFE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $231k · revenue +210%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALAVATION ARMYone grant, 2021 · $20k
- IGINDIANA GUARDENSHIP SERVICES INCone grant, 2021 · $15k
- IGINDIANA GUARDIANSHIP SERVICESone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -41%
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.
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.
Provide resources for low income clients.
Chamber of commerce for laporte, indiana
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.
Leadership training
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.
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
To provide family and individual counseling
Mission is to provide necessary resources to persons with disabilities in order to assist them in enhancing their daily lives. we provide pre-vocational training, habilitation services, individual support, and employment services based on…
To provide education and assistance to low income, disadvantaged individuals and children.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 72 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds REINS OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES INC ↗
- Who funds PALADIN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LA PORTE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COMMUNITY PADS INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONE SHELTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds LAPORTE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds DUNEBROOK INC ↗
- Who funds FLY HIGH YOUTH SERVICES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ANTHONY ADAMS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF GARY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER ON THE RIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE JACK AND SHIRLEY LUBEZNIK CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Service League of Michigan City IN Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF LA PORTE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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