· Public charity
Northwest Indiana Forum Foundation Inc
Working to meet environmental and educational concerns, promoting economic development and growth in northwest indiana, and secure grants to accomplish environmental and educational goals.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $265k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+8 grants · $5.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| URSCHEL DEVELOPMENT CORP | $1,500,000 |
| HEALTHLINC INC | $940,000 |
| VALPARAISO REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSION | $614,995 |
| SAXON PARTNERS LLC | $558,551 |
| CROSSROADS YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS | $437,793 |
| GARY CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AUTHORITY | $435,417 |
| WECREATE MEDIA LLC | $387,517 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA | $352,814 |
| CENTER OF WORKFORCE INNOVATIONS | $242,953 |
| NORTHWEST INDIANA FORUM INC | $213,830 |
| FIRST THINGS FIRST PORTER COUNTY | $200,000 |
| CENTER OF WORKFORCE INNOVATIONS | $187,345 |
| LOWER LINCOLN ESO INC | $178,681 |
| CENTER OF WORKFORCE INNOVATIONS | $172,228 |
| THOMAS P MILLER & ASSOCIATES LLC | $147,156 |
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 (FY24–24, $504k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Northwest Indiana Forum Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in IN; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
To recruit new business and industry into the laporte county area and combat community deterioration by promoting stability, growth, and development of business and industry.
Promote and educate indiana residents on the state's economic success and positive gains.
We are a comprehensive entrepreneurial center whose mission is putting business growth, innovation and entrepreneurship to work for northeast indiana
Chamber of commerce for laporte, indiana
The indiana university alumni association activates and supports the global alumni network- encouraging alumni to grow a lifelong connection with indiana university, and inspiring their ongoing generosity toward each other and the…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To be east central indiana's primary sponsor bringing in technological firms.
An agribusiness network advocate, representing members' interests within all levels of government and keeping members informed of the latest industry trends and news.
To mobilize people, ideas, and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity.
Activities of tcwib include only those specifically designated under the workforce innovation and opportunity act (wioa).
Encourage business to originate, expand current facilities, or relocate to areas within jay county, indiana, in order to expand job opportunities of the residents of jay county, indiana
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Indiana Forum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jasper County Economic Development Organization. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 27 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 HEALTHLINC INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER OF WORKFORCE INNOVATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST INDIANA FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds PORTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER LINCOLN ESO INC ↗
- Who funds INNOVATORS NORTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF NW INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds SHIRLEY HEINZE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds JASPER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN CITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds NWI FOOD COUNCIL 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 · John W Anderson Foundation · Legacy Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Northwest Indiana Forum 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.