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Niles Haunted House

The organization benefits the community by providing entertainment. Proceeds from an annual event are donated to the various organizations that help to staff the event.

$151k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$69k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$10,700
Largest grant, FY2025
$31,945
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$860k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Niles Haunted House funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureAnimalsCivil RightsHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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 arriving5$69k0%
FY20246$70k50%
FY20234$65k25%
FY20227$75k43%
FY20216$63k33%
FY20204$47k25%
FY20194$56k0%
FY20184$57k0%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$246kArts & Culture$89kAnimals$81kHealth$80kCivil Rights$27kRecreation & Sports$20k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boy Scout Troop 541$227,5909n/a
Pets Connect Inc$59,100615%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan$57,72550%
Lakeshore Public Schools$50,5505n/a
Haunters Against Hate Inc$26,850234%
American Cancer Society Inc$21,98640%
Niles Drama Club$21,7503n/a
Cass County Fair Association$20,2003n/a
La Porte Little Theatre Club Inc$16,32526%
The Humane Society of Elkhart County Inc$11,45011%
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All grantees of Niles Haunted House by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boy Scout Troop 541$227,5909n/a
Pets Connect Inc$59,100615%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan$57,72550%
Lakeshore Public Schools$50,5505n/a
Haunters Against Hate Inc$26,850234%
American Cancer Society Inc$21,98640%
Niles Drama Club$21,7503n/a
Cass County Fair Association$20,2003n/a
La Porte Little Theatre Club Inc$16,32526%
The Humane Society of Elkhart County Inc$11,45011%
Pet Refuge Inc$10,10011%
Green Dance Company Boosters Inc$8,339122%
Jamestown United Methodist Church$5,6601n/a
Niles Elite Cheerleaders$5,2001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Niles Haunted House supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPets Connect Inc: $59,100 over 6y, 15% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan: $57,725 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHaunters Against Hate Inc: $26,850 over 2y, 34% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $21,986 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLa Porte Little Theatre Club Inc: $16,325 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetThe Humane Society of Elkhart County Inc: $11,450 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPet Refuge Inc: $10,100 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGreen Dance Company Boosters Inc: $8,339 over 1y, 22% 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 8.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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About Niles Haunted House

How much does Niles Haunted House give?
Niles Haunted House reported 5 itemized grants totaling $68,895, out of $151,185 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Niles Haunted House fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (45%), Arts & Culture (16%), Animals (15%).
Who are Niles Haunted House's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boy Scout Troop 541 ($228k), Pets Connect Inc ($59k), Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan ($58k).
Does Niles Haunted House fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Niles Haunted House?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Niles Haunted House based?
Niles Haunted House is based in MI.

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 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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