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South Shore Arts Inc

Promotion of the arts across the region to transofrm lives and strengthen communities.

$303k
Granted FY2020
18
Itemized grants FY2020
18
Organizations funded FY2020
28%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$158k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$6,807
Largest grant, FY2020
$18,476
Organizations funded a year
11 to 18
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1
Total assets, FY2020
$1.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 28% of the organizations South Shore Arts Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
Arts & CultureOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202018$158k28%
FY201914$222k7%
FY201813$165k15%
FY201711$111kn/a
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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 2020.

Arts & Culture$650kYouth Development$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

South Shore Arts Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwest Indiana Symphony Society Inc: $213,476 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetTheater at the Center Inc: $73,193 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetThe Jack and Shirley Lubeznik Center for the Arts: $50,078 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetIndiana Ballet Theatre Nw Inc: $38,522 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetLaporte County Symphony Orchestra Inc: $38,522 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetCommunity Theatre Guild Inc: $36,652 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetAssoc of Artists and Craftsmen of Porter Inc: $26,966 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetMiller Beach Arts & Creative District CDC: $26,963 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetTowle Performing Arts Company: $23,337 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetSouth Shore Dance Alliance Inc: $23,112 over 4y, 10% of budgetBooks Brushes and Bands for Education Inc: $23,112 over 4y, 13% of budgetBeachfront Dance School Inc: $23,112 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetLakeshore Community Concerts: $17,502 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetMemorial Opera House Foundation: $9,724 over 1y, 16% of budgetArt Barn School of Art Inc: $6,807 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTop 20 Inc: $6,108 over 1y, 27% of budgetDunes Art Foundation Inc: $5,834 over 1y, 6.9% of budget

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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 17.

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 FoundationIN26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John W Anderson Foundation · Legacy Foundation Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Unity Foundation of la Porte County · Porter County Community Foundation Inc · The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 South Shore Arts Inc

How much does South Shore Arts Inc give?
South Shore Arts Inc reported 18 itemized grants totaling $158,075, out of $303,171 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does South Shore Arts Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (99%), Youth Development (1%).
Who are South Shore Arts Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Northwest Indiana Symphony Society Inc ($213k), Theater at the Center Inc ($73k), The Jack and Shirley Lubeznik Center for the Arts ($50k).
Does South Shore Arts Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as South Shore Arts Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John W Anderson Foundation, Legacy Foundation Inc, Nisource Charitable Foundation.
Where is South Shore Arts Inc based?
South Shore Arts Inc is based in IN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $26k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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