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Niles Haunted House

The organization benefits the community by providing entertainment.

$151k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $68,895, the rows itemized in this filing. The $151,185 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $82,290 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
$10,700
Median grant
4
States reached
$860k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Positively Dance: $8k → 12%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $14k → 14%Lakeshore High School Stage Crew: $13k → 15%American Cancer Society Inc: $5k → 8%Cub Scouts Pack 787: $6k → 13%Pet Refuge: $10k → 13%Haunters Against Hate: $14k → 15%Cass County Fair Association: $8k → 12%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%Lakeshore High School Stage Crew: $11k → 15%Humane Society of Elkhart County: $11k → 13%Haunters Against Hate: $13k → 15%Cass County Fair Association: $6k → 12%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $12k → 14%Lakeshore High School Stage Crew: $11k → 15%Cass County Fair Association: $6k → 12%Make A Wish Foundation: $11k → 14%Lakeshore High School Stage Crew: $8k → 15%Make A Wish Foundation: $8k → 14%Lakeshore High School Stage Crew: $7k → 15%Boy Scout Troop 541: $34k → 15%Boy Scout Troop 541: $32k → 15%Boy Scout Troop 541: $29k → 15%Boy Scout Troop 541: $25k → 15%BOY SCOUT TROOP 541: $24k → 15%Boy Scout Troop 541: $24k → 15%BOY SCOUT TROOP 541: $23k → 15%Boy Scout Troop 541: $22k → 15%BOY SCOUT TROOP 541: $16k → 15%NILES DRAMA CLUB: $8k → 15%NILES HIGH SCHOOL BAND BOOSTERS: $8k → 15%NILES DRAMA CLUB: $6k → 15%Niles Elite Cheerleaders: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$502k · 9 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$502k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+43%

Still filing today

56%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureAnimalsCivil RightsRecreation & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BS
    Boy Scout Troop 541
    9× · 2017–2025 · $228k
  • PC
    PETS CONNECT INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $59k · revenue -10%
  • MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN
    5× · 2017–2021 · $58k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ELKHART COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +110%
  • PR
    PET REFUGE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +43%
  • GD
    GREEN DANCE COMPANY BOOSTERS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -39%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Lakeshore Paws Inc

To prevent the suffering and cruelty to animals

Animals
2
Great Lakes Humane Society

Provide for homeless pets, adopt serv

Animals
3
Pet Connect Rescue Inc

Prevention of cruelty to animals

Animals
4
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
5
Promoting Animal Welfare Society Inc

Prevention of cruelty to animals

Animals
6
Petsconnect Incorporated

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

Animals
7
Max's Pet Connection Inc

Pet rescue and rehabilitation

Animals
8
Animal House of South East Michigan

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…

Animals
9
Pet Posse

Reuniting missing animals with their owners.

Animals
10
Friends of Pets Inc

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…

Animals
11
Helping Out Pets Everywhere Ltd

Dog & cat rescue, vet care & adoptions

Animals
12
Boardwalk Pet Rescue

Pet rescue

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Michigan; 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.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 14 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Boy Scout Troop 541: $227,590 · OtherBoy Scout Troop 541PETS CONNECT INC: $59,100 · OtherPETS CONNECT INCLAKESHORE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $50,550 · OtherLAKESHORE PUBLIC SCHOOLSNILES DRAMA CLUB: $21,750 · OtherNILES DRAMA CLUB+2 more: $10,860 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $57,725 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUN…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $21,986 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER …Haunters Against Hate Inc: $26,850 · Civil RightsLA PORTE LITTLE THEATRE CLUB INC: $16,325 · Arts & CultureGREEN DANCE COMPANY BOOSTERS INC: $8,339 · Arts & CultureTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ELKHART COUNTY INC: $11,450 · AnimalsPET REFUGE INC: $10,100 · AnimalsCASS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $20,200 · Recreation & Sports
Other$369,850Health$79,711Civil Rights$26,850Arts & Culture$24,664Animals$21,550Recreation & Sports$20,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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 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 CASS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Niles Haunted House funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Niles Haunted House. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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