· Community foundation
Porter County Community Foundation Inc
To strengthen our community through lasting generosity and leadership
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 100 grants below total $4,463,124 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,792,672 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $329,548 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 $10k35 grants · $259k
- $10k–50k47 grants · $920k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA | $762,554 |
| MAAC FOUNDATION INC | $490,490 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA | $302,923 |
| OPPORTUNITY ENTERPRISES INC | $252,261 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF PORTER COUNTY | $215,188 |
| NEIGHBORS EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES INC | $205,000 |
| DUNELAND FAMILY YMCA | $182,411 |
| IVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE - VALPARAISO | $109,327 |
| PROJECT NEIGHBORS | $105,322 |
| HAROLD HAL KELLEY RESPITE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY | $93,085 |
| VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION (VNA) FOUNDATION INC | $89,042 |
| TRADEWINDS REHABILITATION CENTER INC | $73,833 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA LASALLE COUNCIL #165 | $63,800 |
| THE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF VALPARAISO INDIANA | $60,237 |
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, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +44% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
110 repeat relationships — 73 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 25 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $374k 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
- TMTHE MAAC FOUNDATION INC6× · 2018–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +996% · 41% of their budget
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +205%
- OEOPPORTUNITY ENTERPRISES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +38%
Funded once
- PCPORTER COUNTY CONVENTION RECREATION & VISITOR COMMISSIONone grant, 2023 · $152k
- OGOUR GREATER GOODone grant, 2017 · $138k
- MFMAAC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $100k
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.
Providing the laporte county park department with public support for expanded opportunities for land preservation, park develpoment and expanded programs.
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
Build or rehabilitate homes for low income families to purchase at cost on interest free mortgages
Provide philanthropic support to help provide services, equipment, resources and education for indiana university health paoli, inc. ("iu health paoli") to meet the healthcare needs of our community well into the future.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Promote development in Perry County, Indiana
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
The portage foundation inspires, impacts, and engages the portage county community by ensuring pathways of enduring support to meet local needs. we are committed to integrity and accountability in connecting donors with recipients,…
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…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
To coordinate and promote economic development on a county wide basis among all of the political subdivisions of portage county, ohio.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hands of Hope Illinois. 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 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
129 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. 129 of the 223 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE MAAC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds PINES VILLAGE RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HILLTOP NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRADEWINDS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VALPARAISO PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHIRLEY HEINZE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds DUNELAND YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds Harold Hal Kelly Respite House Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PORTAGE TOWNSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF VALPARAISO IN ↗
- Who funds PORTER CO MUSEUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds VALPARAISO YMCA ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Our Greater Good Incorporated ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS CORP ↗
- Who funds LASALLE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #165 TRUST ↗
- Who funds DRESSED FOR SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PARENTS AS TEACHERS OF PORTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF PORTER COUNTY INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST INDIANA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Housing Opportunities Inc ↗
- Who funds VALPARAISO ROTARY CLUB MEMORIAL FOUNDATION 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: John W Anderson Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · United Way of Northwest Indiana Inc · Legacy Foundation Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Crown Point Community Foundation Inc · Forszt Brothers Charitable Foundation In · The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation · Community Foundation of Northwest Indiana Inc · Von Tobel Foundation Inc · Lake Area United Way Inc · Unity Foundation of la Porte County
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 Porter County 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.