· Community foundation
Northern Indiana Community Foundation Inc
Our mission is to improve the quality of life in our communities by assisting donors in fulfilling their charitable wishes forever.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of NORTHERN INDIANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 87 grants below total $1,370,739 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,179,015 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $808,276 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k36 grants · $261k
- $10k–50k49 grants · $968k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $142k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANCILLA COLLEGE OF MARIAN | $75,538 |
| TIMES THEATER INC | $66,734 |
| MIAMI COUNTY YMCA | $49,172 |
| ST CHARLES BORROMEO CATHOLIC | $44,700 |
| MIAMI COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $43,144 |
| FULTON COUNTY ANIMAL ADOPTION & | $34,459 |
| ROCHESTER GRACE CHURCH INC | $32,000 |
| BRENT BLACKETER MEMORIAL SPORTS | $30,750 |
| AKRON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $30,142 |
| FULTON COUNTY YOUTH CENTER | $29,450 |
| THE STARKE COUNTY YOUTH CLUB INC | $25,443 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| DAVIS TOWNSHIP | $25,000 |
| STARKE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANGAGEMENT | $25,000 |
| MIAMI COUNTY HELPING HANDS | $24,864 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
112 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 18 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $254k 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
- FCFulton County Youth Center Inc5× · 2019–2024 · $643k · revenue +135% · 73% of their budget
- ADAncilla Domini College7× · 2017–2023 · $402k · revenue +35%
- MCMIAMI COUNTY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $389k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- NPNICK PATTERSON COMMUNITY ANDone grant, 2018 · $76k
- EFEDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF ALPHA GAMMA RHOgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +29%
- OIOPTIMIST INTERNATIONALone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +12%
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.
Provide housing for senior citizens of Martin County Indiana
To educate the public about the history of hamilton county, indiana and to preserve historic structures in hamlton county, indiana
Promote development in Perry County, Indiana
Build or rehabilitate homes for low income families to purchase at cost on interest free mortgages
Provide recreational and support services to senior citizens of Martin County Indiana
To provide and to promote humane treatment toward animals
Jackson county united way assesses needs, secures resources and strategically invests those resources to create lasting, measurable change in the areas of education, health and financial stability for all people in jackson county.
Conduct annual county fair
Educate community health workers
Provide volunteer fire protection to the cummunity of dunkirk, indiana.
Provide fire protection for the citizens of hebron, boone township, porter county, indiana
The mission of the united way of indiana county is to meet critical needs and improve the quality of life throughout indiana county by inspiring and uniting its residents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of St Joseph County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Starke County Historical Society. 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 25 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
76 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. 76 of the 175 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 Fulton County Youth Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Ancilla Domini College ↗
- Who funds MIAMI COUNTY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYINC ↗
- Who funds The Times Theater Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN PARK CHAUTAUQUA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FULTON CO ANIMAL ADOPTION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI COUNTY HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds United Ministries of Fulton County Inc ↗
- Who funds STARKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FULTON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds Fulton County Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Fulton County United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds STARKE COUNTY YOUTH CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES OF STARKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OLE OLSEN MEMORIAL THEATRE ↗
- Who funds WOODLAWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Brent Blacketor Memorial Sports Complex Inc ↗
- Who funds STARKE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Marian University ↗
- Who funds Rochester Little League Inc ↗
- Who funds Habitat For Humanity International 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Nisource Charitable Foundation · Healthcare Foundation of Miami County Inc · Marshall County Community Foundation Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Lilly Endowment Inc · Kosciusko County Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 748 · Community Foundation of Pulaski County Inc · Porter County Community Foundation Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Flagstar Foundation Inc
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 Northern Indiana Community Foundation Inc 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.