How much did QUALITY CONNECTION grant in FY2024?

QUALITY CONNECTION reported 11 grants totaling $203,532 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is QUALITY CONNECTION based?

QUALITY CONNECTION is based in IN.

QUALITY CONNECTION

Foundation Dossiers

· Public charity

QUALITY CONNECTION

Labor management cooperative

$204k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$26k

Largest

01What you fund

0178% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$165kPhilanthropy$154kHuman Services$113kHealth$93kCommunity Improvement$33kEmployment$32kOther$169k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

—

2019

health

2020

health

2021

—

2022

health

2023

health

2024

planyouthathleticactivitieshealth

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $16k
$10k–50k9 grants · $159k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

CITY OF HAMMOND$25,500
CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF NW IN$25,000
FRANCISCAN HEALTH FOUNDATION$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

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$677k · 8 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$677k

$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%

+190%

Still filing today

88%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEmploymentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

CL
CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF NWI IN
8× · 2017–2024 · $165k · revenue +76%
FH
FRANCISCAN HEALTH FOUNDATION
6× · 2019–2024 · $154k · revenue +2%
SY
SOUTHLAKE YMCA
6× · 2017–2022 · $113k · revenue +81%

Funded once

TO
TOWN OF MERRILLVILLE
one grant, 2020 · $15k
EL
EARLY LEARNING PARTNERSHIP OF NW IN
one grant, 2017 · $15k
LC
LAKE COURT HOUSE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +190%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

The Lakes Community Health Center Inc

To respond to the healthcare needs of our communities with an integrated array of quality services and actively remove barriers to wellness.

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Indiana County Ymca (5647)

To put christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for all

—

Chc Creating Healthier Communities

Chc exists to empower people to take action to improve health and wellbeing.

—

Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce

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.

Community Improvement

Lake County in Economic Alliance Inc

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…

—

Chc Creating Healthier

Chc, local builds awareness of and financial support for member health agencies.

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Rock Lake Activity Center Inc

Improve the general fitness of the members of the community of lake mills, wisconsin by making fitness and health education classes and activities available on a regular basis to members of the community

—

Illinois Valley Ymca

To put christian principles into practice that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.

Human Services

Lake Superior Community Health Center

As a community health center, we are dedicated to providing care to everyone in need, regardless of insurance or ability to pay.we seek to improve access to quality health care for all by providing access to quality medical, dental, and…

Health

Community Health Center Inc

Improving healthcare outcomes and building healthier communities (see schedule o)community health center, inc. ("chc") is building a world class primary care organization, committed to special populations, improving health outcomes and…

Health

Central Indiana Corporate

The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…

Community Improvement

Cayuga Medical Associates Pc

Cayuga medical associates, as a member of cayuga health system, provides comprehensive medical services to the organization's service area.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crossroads Ymca Inc and the most unlike its peers is Challenger Learning Center of. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

9/11

Grantees still filing

9/11

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$169,499Education$165,000Philanthropy$154,000Human Services$112,500Health$93,000Community Improvement$32,500Employment$32,312

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.

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.

Legacy Foundation IncIN20.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Legacy Foundation Inc · Crown Point Community Foundation Inc · John W Anderson Foundation · Lake Area United Way 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 organisation 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.

2024

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HESSVILLE COMMERCE AND COMMUNITY CREATIVE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 473762794 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HESSVILLE COMMERCE AND COMMUNITY CREATIVE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 21% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Quality Connection?

Find your warmest path to Quality Connection through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

QUALITY CONNECTION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Quality Connection?

More from the funding graph

QUALITY CONNECTION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Quality Connection?

More from the funding graph