How much does Northern Indiana Community Foundation Inc give?

Northern Indiana Community Foundation Inc reported 87 itemized grants totaling $1,370,739, out of $2,179,015 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 53 and 84 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Northern Indiana Community Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (18%), Religion (17%), Arts & Culture (12%).

Who are Northern Indiana Community Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Fulton County Youth Center Inc ($643k), Rochester Community School ($456k), Ancilla Domini College ($402k).

Does Northern Indiana Community Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Northern Indiana Community Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nisource Charitable Foundation, Healthcare Foundation of Miami County Inc, Marshall County Community Foundation Inc.

Where is Northern Indiana Community Foundation Inc based?

Northern Indiana Community Foundation Inc is based in IN.

Northern Indiana Community Foundation Inc

Northern Indiana Community Foundation Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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.

$2.2M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$76k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.9MReligion$1.8MArts & Culture$1.2MHuman Services$1.2MYouth Development$978kRecreation & Sports$656kPublic Safety & Disaster$507kCommunity Improvement$357kOther$0

02FY2024 · 87 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 87 grants below total $1,370,739, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,179,015 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $808,276 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 · FY2024

Under $10k36 grants · $261k
$10k–50k49 grants · $968k
$50k–250k2 grants · $142k

$10,927

Median grant

States reached

$69M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
DAVIS TOWNSHIP	$25,000
Individual grant recipient	$25,000
STARKE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANGAGEMENT	$25,000
MIAMI COUNTY HELPING HANDS	$24,864

02The need

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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$9.6M · 112 repeat orgs$765k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

112

Total granted

$9.6M

$511k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+11%

Still filing today

40%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $254k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

FC
Fulton County Youth Center Inc
5× · 2019–2024 · $643k · revenue +135% · 73% of their budget
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Ancilla Domini College
7× · 2017–2023 · $402k · revenue +35%
MC
MIAMI COUNTY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $389k · revenue +86%

Funded once

NP
NICK PATTERSON COMMUNITY AND
one grant, 2018 · $76k
EF
EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF ALPHA GAMMA RHOgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +29%
OI
OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL
one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +12%

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.

Martin County Senior Citizens Housing Inc

Provide housing for senior citizens of Martin County Indiana

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Hamilton County Historical Society

To educate the public about the history of hamilton county, indiana and to preserve historic structures in hamlton county, indiana

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Perry County Development Corp

Promote development in Perry County, Indiana

—

Perry County in Habitat for Humanity Inc

Build or rehabilitate homes for low income families to purchase at cost on interest free mortgages

—

Indiana County Humane Society

To provide and to promote humane treatment toward animals

Animals

The Jackson County United Way Inc

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.

Philanthropy

Martin County Council On Aging Inc

Provide recreational and support services to senior citizens of Martin County Indiana

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Indiana Community Health Worke Association Inc

Educate community health workers

Health

Dekalb County Fair Association Inc

Conduct annual county fair

Recreation & Sports

United Way of Indiana County

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.

Philanthropy

Dunkirk Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Provide volunteer fire protection to the cummunity of dunkirk, indiana.

Public Safety & Disaster

Dunkirk Industrial Development Corp

Promoting economic development in dunkirk, indiana

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of St Joseph County Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

76 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. 76 of the 175 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

71/76

Grantees still filing

49/76

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$6,995,806Human Services$1,102,129Youth Development$790,236Arts & Culture$589,385Religion$345,000Animals$322,546Community Improvement$228,551

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.

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.

Nisource Charitable FoundationOH27.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Northern Indiana Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northern Indiana Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home