· Public charity
Niles Haunted House
The organization benefits the community by providing entertainment.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $68,895 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $151,185 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $82,290 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boy Scout Troop 541 | $31,945 |
| Haunters Against Hate | $12,750 |
| Lakeshore High School Stage Crew | $10,700 |
| LaPorte Little Theater Club Inc | $8,500 |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of your 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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BSBoy Scout Troop 5419× · 2017–2025 · $228k
- PCPETS CONNECT INC6× · 2017–2022 · $59k · revenue -10%
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN5× · 2017–2021 · $58k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- THTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ELKHART COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +110%
- PRPET REFUGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +43%
- GDGREEN DANCE COMPANY BOOSTERS INCone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -39%
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 prevent the suffering and cruelty to animals
Provide for homeless pets, adopt serv
Prevention of cruelty to animals
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Prevention of cruelty to animals
care rescue and reduction of pet euthanasiapeople welfare and for pet animals in shelters training to support this outreach to public to promte animal welfare
Pet rescue and rehabilitation
We have been created to provide a number of humane companion animal related services to the community such as: 1) operate an animal rescue providing a haven for homeless animals 2) work to place those animals into homes 3) attempt to keep…
Reuniting missing animals with their owners.
We intervene to reduce the euthanasia rates at the anchorage animal care & control center, to promote responsible pet ownership and to improve the quality of life for companion animals, through rescue/adoption services, spay/neuter…
Dog & cat rescue, vet care & adoptions
Pet rescue
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Michigan and the most unlike its peers is La Porte Little Theatre Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 14 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 PETS CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Haunters Against Hate Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LA PORTE LITTLE THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PET REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN DANCE COMPANY BOOSTERS INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Niles Haunted House 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.