· Public charity
Quality Connection
Labor management cooperative.
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 11 grants below total $175,311 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $203,532 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $28,221 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 $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $159k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF HAMMOND | $25,500 |
| FRANCISCAN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF NW IN | $25,000 |
| LAKE COUNTY ELECTRICIANS JATC | $20,812 |
| HESSVILLE COMMERCE AND COMMUNITY CREATIVE | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF NORTHWEST INDIANA | $12,500 |
| INDIANA PLAN | $10,000 |
| LAKE COUNTY CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU | $10,000 |
| CROWN POINT YOUTH SPORTS COMMISSION INC | $8,999 |
| MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LAKE COUNTY INC | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–22, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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 +33% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- CLCHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $165k · revenue +241%
- FHFRANCISCAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $154k · revenue +20%
- CYCROSSROADS YMCA INC6× · 2017–2022 · $113k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- TOTOWN OF MERRILLVILLEone grant, 2020 · $15k
- PAPARENTS AS TEACHERS OF LAKE COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $15k
- LCLAKE COURT HOUSE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +9%
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.
Lcea is organized for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding of economics; matters of public concern; finance; education and training; science and technology; economic planning and development; and other subjects…
To respond to the healthcare needs of our communities with an integrated array of quality services and actively remove barriers to wellness. the lakes community health center, inc. is proud to be a community health center (chc) working to…
To be a voice for business and a forum for the exchange of ideas and through a variety of chamber programs and services, strengthen the economic vitality of east chicago, hammond, and northwest indiana.
Inspire and retain economic growth
Promote the health and independence of lake county, il, older adults
Lakeshore community health care provides access to comprehensive, integrated health care, regardless of ability to pay, eliminating health disparities among the underserved.
To improve access to quality health care for all.
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. ymca programs focus on four core values - caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility. we serve men, women, and children of…
To put christian principles into practice that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.
Uniting people and resources to advance the health, education, and financial stability of our communities.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crossroads Ymca Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hessville Commerce and Community Creative. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 15 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 CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Hessville Commerce and Community Creative ↗
- Who funds LOCAL 697 IBEW APPRENTICE ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PARENTS AS TEACHERS OF LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE COURT HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CROWN POINT YOUTH SPORTS COMMISSION 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: Legacy Foundation Inc · Crown Point Community Foundation Inc · John W Anderson Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Lake Area United Way Inc · Dean & Barbara White Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Northwest Indiana Inc · Porter County Community 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 Quality Connection 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.
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