How much does Porter County Community Foundation Inc give?

Porter County Community Foundation Inc reported 91 itemized grants totaling $5,495,446, out of $5,975,382 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 65 and 98 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Porter County Community Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Education (13%), Public Safety & Disaster (12%).

Who are Porter County Community Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Maac Foundation Inc ($3.2M), Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Northwest Indiana Inc ($2.7M), Opportunity Enterprises Inc ($1.9M).

Does Porter County Community Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Porter County Community Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John W Anderson Foundation, Nisource Charitable Foundation, United Way of Northwest Indiana Inc.

Where is Porter County Community Foundation Inc based?

Porter County Community Foundation Inc is based in IN.

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Indiana · Community foundation

Porter County Community Foundation Inc

To strengthen our community through lasting generosity and leadership

$6.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 91
Itemized grants FY2025: 98
Organizations funded FY2024: 26%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $5.5M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $12,955
Largest grant, FY2025: $1,074,622
Organizations funded a year: 65 to 98; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 10
Total assets, FY2025: $124M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Porter County Community Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $374k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	90	$5.5M	19%
FY2024	98	$4.5M	26%
FY2023	70	$3.4M	14%
FY2022	81	$4.2M	19%
FY2021	65	$2.9M	9%
FY2020	72	$2.4M	33%
FY2019	74	$1.5M	35%
FY2018	75	$2.2M	44%

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What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$4.9MEducation$3.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.9MYouth Development$2.7MHealth$1.9MPhilanthropy$1.8MEmployment$1.5MArts & Culture$1.0MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Maac Foundation Inc	$3,242,789	7	41%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Northwest Indiana Inc	$2,661,642	9	7%
Opportunity Enterprises Inc	$1,888,460	9	2%
United Way of Northwest Indiana Inc	$1,538,417	9	12%
The Caring Place Inc	$1,367,538	9	36%
Indiana Dunes Environmental Learning Center Inc	$1,220,580	9	2%
Pines Village Retirement Communities Inc	$912,823	9	5%
Hilltop Neighborhood House Inc	$883,155	9	14%
The Salvation Army	$786,165	9	n/a
Ivy Tech Foundation Inc	$771,799	7	0%

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All grantees of Porter County Community Foundation Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Maac Foundation Inc	$3,242,789	7	41%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Northwest Indiana Inc	$2,661,642	9	7%
Opportunity Enterprises Inc	$1,888,460	9	2%
United Way of Northwest Indiana Inc	$1,538,417	9	12%
The Caring Place Inc	$1,367,538	9	36%
Indiana Dunes Environmental Learning Center Inc	$1,220,580	9	2%
Pines Village Retirement Communities Inc	$912,823	9	5%
Hilltop Neighborhood House Inc	$883,155	9	14%
The Salvation Army	$786,165	9	n/a
Ivy Tech Foundation Inc	$771,799	7	0%
The Lutheran University Association Inc	$695,355	9	0%
Visiting Nurse Association Foundation Inc	$646,572	8	14%
Tradewinds Services Inc	$639,897	9	1%
Valparaiso Parks & Recreation Foundation Inc	$450,320	9	16%
Duneland YMCA Inc	$434,573	9	3%
Shirley Heinze Land Trust Inc	$426,022	9	4%
Duneland School Corporation	$420,500	2	n/a
The Public Education Foundation of Valparaiso In	$325,074	9	35%
Neighbors Corp	$301,936	4	14%
Porter Co Museum Corporation	$278,903	8	27%
Harold Hal Kelly Respite House Foundation Inc	$269,000	5	23%
Young Men's Christian Association of Portage Township Inc	$265,784	9	4%
Parents as Teachers of Porter County Inc	$253,572	7	52%
Immanuel Lutheran Church	$247,094	7	n/a
Valparaiso YMCA	$234,842	9	1%
Neighbors Educational Opportunities	$225,450	3	6%
Our Greater Good Incorporated	$206,814	7	24%
Porter County Public Library System	$204,445	4	n/a
Crisis Center Inc	$202,647	5	2%
Lasalle Council Inc Boy Scouts of America #165 Trust	$187,050	4	73%
Northwest Indiana Symphony Society Inc	$183,599	9	3%
Campus Crusade for Christ Inc	$171,865	9	n/a
Dressed for School Inc	$171,201	7	24%
Visiting Nurse Association of Porter County Indiana Inc	$154,344	6	1%
Housing Opportunities Inc	$145,383	6	1%
Valparaiso Rotary Club Memorial Foundation Inc	$143,893	6	30%
Artistic Recovery	$127,210	6	7%
Scholarship America Inc	$123,371	5	n/a
Ivy Tech Community College - Valparaiso	$109,327	1	n/a
Porter County Parks Foundation Inc	$107,287	5	79%
Memorial Opera House Foundation	$105,687	8	16%
Healthlinc Inc	$101,155	4	0%
Crossroads Fund Inc	$100,000	2	2%
Christ Lutheran Church	$96,200	4	n/a
Food Bank of Northwest Indiana Inc	$94,588	6	0%
Family House Inc	$91,063	7	11%
Challenger Learning Center of Northwest Indiana Inc	$87,041	9	2%
Art Barn School of Art Inc	$85,478	7	9%
The Dollywood Foundation	$85,075	2	0%
St Agnes Day Service Center	$80,500	7	n/a
St Andrew's Episcopal Church	$78,330	3	n/a
Trinity Lutheran Church	$78,250	8	n/a
Family Promise of Porter County Inc	$75,150	2	14%
Catholic Charities Diocese of Gary	$74,707	9	1%
Gabriel's Horn Inc	$69,955	4	2%
Porter Township School Corporation	$69,637	5	n/a
True North Training Stables Inc	$63,000	6	13%
Call a Ride Incorporated	$60,286	8	n/a
Mondays Dark	$60,000	2	5%
Porter County Agricultural Society Inc	$53,854	6	4%
Jacob's Ladder Pediatric Rehab Center Inc	$53,629	3	1%
Nwi Food Council Inc	$50,000	1	3%
Portage Township Food Pantry Inc	$47,950	2	39%
Frontline Foundations Inc	$47,094	3	4%
Immanuel Lutheran School	$47,077	3	n/a
Valparaiso Community Festivals and Event	$46,882	5	2%
Northwest Indiana Public Broadcasting Inc	$46,148	3	1%
Independent Cat Society Inc	$45,500	4	4%
Lakeshore Paws Inc	$44,440	5	3%
Valparaiso Creative Council Inc	$42,139	4	9%
Moraine House Inc	$40,274	4	11%
Kouts Volunteer Fire Department	$38,200	4	5%
Regional Performing Arts Company	$37,533	4	12%
Railroad Township San Pierre Alumni Scholarship Fund Inc	$37,130	4	75%
Kids Alive International Inc	$36,091	4	0%
Valparaiso Community Schools	$35,536	5	n/a
Porter County Safe Schools Commission Inc	$35,476	2	n/a
Franciscan Health Foundation Inc	$35,000	2	0%
Pandemic Parenting Inc	$34,936	2	47%
Mental Health America of Lake County Inc	$34,767	2	0%
Church of the Redeemer	$34,000	3	n/a
Christ Lutheran Church	$33,600	1	n/a
Porter-Starke Services Inc	$30,500	3	0%
The Conscious Alliance	$30,000	2	0%
Porter County Aging & Community Services Inc	$30,000	1	2%
North Coast Cultural Association Inc	$29,795	4	13%
Portage Township Community Concert Inc	$29,305	4	n/a
Community Theatre Guild Inc	$29,176	3	9%
Rebuilding Together Duneland Inc	$29,060	4	22%
Stillpoint Mission Inc	$28,500	4	4%
Reins of Life Inc	$28,000	4	1%
Girls on the Run of Northwest Indiana	$25,193	3	3%
Meals on Wheels of Northwest Indiana Inc	$25,000	2	0%
The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation	$25,000	3	0%
Dunebrook Inc	$25,000	1	1%
South Shore Performing Arts Co	$23,667	3	n/a
Worldview Studies Center Inc	$22,000	2	n/a
Covenant Life Church	$21,500	2	n/a
Humane Indiana Inc	$20,288	3	0%
First Presbyterian Church	$20,200	1	n/a
International Planned Parenthood Federation - Worldwide Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Denia Community Church	$20,000	2	n/a
Youth Service Bureau of Porter County Inc	$19,455	2	1%
Valparaiso Woman's Association	$18,760	1	n/a
Prisoner and Community Together Pact Inc	$18,720	2	0%
Maks	$18,250	2	7%
The Intrepid Phoenix Inc	$17,792	2	12%
Working in the Schools Inc	$17,670	2	0%
Portage Recovery Association Inc	$17,500	2	7%
Denton Bible Church	$17,500	2	n/a
Purdue University Global Inc	$16,000	2	n/a
Boulder Rotary Club Foundation Inc	$16,000	2	5%
Compass International Family Center Inc	$15,621	2	9%
Hebron Volunteer Fire Department Inc	$15,570	2	6%
Episcopal Charities	$15,000	2	n/a
Latin American Ministry Partners	$15,000	2	4%
University of Arizona Foundation	$15,000	1	0%
Habitat for Humanity of Porter County Inc	$15,000	2	1%
South Shore Chamber Orchestra	$14,125	1	n/a
Trustees of Purdue University	$13,000	2	n/a
Church of the Palms-Presbyterian Church-	$13,000	2	n/a
Matthew August Mecchia Foundation Inc	$12,955	1	45%
Northshore Health Centers Inc	$12,801	1	0%
Exceptional Equestrians Unlimited Inc	$12,420	2	5%
Porter County Government Charitable Nonprofit Foundation Inc	$12,086	2	0%
Valpo K-9 Association Inc	$12,000	2	11%
Education Foundation for the Porter Township School Corporation	$11,060	1	n/a
Portage Parks and Recreation Foundation Inc	$11,020	1	24%
The Glenridge Charitable Foundation Inc	$11,000	1	1%
Assoc of Artists and Craftsmen of Porter Inc	$10,372	1	4%
Higher Ground USA Inc	$10,000	1	3%
First Things First Porter County	$10,000	1	n/a
Chicago Public Media Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Pro Publica Inc	$10,000	1	0%
The American Legion	$10,000	1	n/a
Caminos de Agua	$10,000	1	1%
Lessons With Love	$10,000	1	n/a
Attention Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Community Coalition on Homelessness dba Turning Points	$10,000	1	0%
Friends of Portage Township Foundationportage Township Autism Action Coali	$10,000	1	n/a
Community Change Center Weareone	$10,000	1	11%
Boulder Valley School District	$10,000	1	n/a
Boulder Community Health Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
The Indiana Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
St Mary Medical Center Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Porter Township Volunteer Firemen Inc	$10,000	1	6%
Portage Economic Development Corporation	$10,000	1	n/a
The Salvation Army	$10,000	1	n/a
Home Team Valpo Inc	$10,000	1	27%
Friends in Gratitude Hobart Township	$10,000	1	n/a
Freedom Healing Church	$9,850	1	n/a
First Fruits Gives	$9,521	1	n/a
Liberty Township Volunteer Fire Department	$9,105	1	3%
St Pauls Roman Catholic Church	$8,573	1	n/a
Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry	$8,153	1	0%
Sagamore Institute Inc	$8,000	1	0%
Calvary Church Of	$7,500	1	n/a
Red River Valley Foundation	$7,500	1	n/a
Neighborlink Porter County	$7,500	1	4%
Equipnet	$7,500	1	0%
International Studentsinternational	$7,200	1	n/a
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc	$7,190	1	0%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation	$7,000	1	0%
Morgan Township Volunteer Fire Department Inc	$7,000	1	6%
Valparaiso Kiwanis Club Foundation	$6,500	1	8%
Hands of Hope Illinois	$6,500	1	0%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc	$6,500	1	0%
Valparaiso Parks Department	$6,500	1	n/a
Save the Dunes Conservation Fund	$6,222	1	1%
Northwest Indiana Paddling Association	$6,000	1	n/a
Northwest Indiana Cancer Kids Inc	$6,000	1	2%
Shodair Children's Foundation	$6,000	1	0%
American Heart Association Inc	$5,500	1	0%
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky Inc	$5,125	1	0%
Criswell College	$5,000	1	0%
Emma's Footprints	$5,000	1	n/a
Annunciation House Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
Hannahs Hope Inc	$5,000	1	5%
Samaritan's Purse	$5,000	1	0%
Red River Community House Inc	$800	1	0%

Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.

Porter County Community Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 130 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 130.

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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.

John W Anderson FoundationIN130.3× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Porter County Community Foundation Inc

How much does Porter County Community Foundation Inc give?: Porter County Community Foundation Inc reported 91 itemized grants totaling $5,495,446, out of $5,975,382 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 65 and 98 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Porter County Community Foundation Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Education (13%), Public Safety & Disaster (12%).
Who are Porter County Community Foundation Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Maac Foundation Inc ($3.2M), Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Northwest Indiana Inc ($2.7M), Opportunity Enterprises Inc ($1.9M).
Does Porter County Community Foundation Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Porter County Community Foundation Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John W Anderson Foundation, Nisource Charitable Foundation, United Way of Northwest Indiana Inc.
Where is Porter County Community Foundation Inc based?: Porter County Community Foundation Inc is based in IN.