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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
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.

Arts & Culture$650kYouth Development$6k
02FY2020 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 18 grants below total $158,075 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $303,171 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $145,096 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 · FY2020

  • Under $10k15 grants · $108k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
$6,807
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWEST INDIANA SYMPHONY SOCIETY$18,476
THEATRE AT THE CENTER$18,476
LUBEZNIK CENTER FOR THE ARTS$12,641
INDIANA BALLET THEATRE$9,724
LA PORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$9,724
MEMORIAL OPERA HOUSE$9,724
COMMUNITY THEATRE GUILD$9,724
TOWLE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY$7,779
ASSOCIATION OF ARTISTS & CRAFTSMEN$6,807
ART BARN SCHOOL OF ART INC$6,807
MILLER BEACH ARTS$6,807
TOP 20 INC$6,108
VALPARAISO THEATRICAL COMPANY$6,108
BEACH FRONT DANCE STUDIO$5,834
DUNES ART FOUNDATION$5,834
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 86% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%COMMUNITY THEATRE GUILD: $10k → 9%INDIANA BALLET THEATRE: $10k → 15%LUBEZNIK CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $13k → 15%COMMUNITY THEATRE GUILD: $10k → 9%INDIANA BALLET THEATRE: $10k → 15%LUBEZNIK CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $13k → 15%COMMUNITY THEATRE GUILD: $10k → 9%INDIANA BALLET THEATRE: $10k → 15%LUBEZNIK CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $13k → 15%MEMORIAL OPERA HOUSE: $10k → 9%INDIANA BALLET THEATRE: $9k → 15%LUBEZNIK CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $12k → 15%COMMUNITY THEATRE GUILD: $7k → 9%TOWLE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY: $8k → 15%DUNES ART FOUNDATION: $6k → 15%ART BARN SCHOOL OF ART INC: $7k → 9%TOWLE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY: $8k → 15%VALPARAISO THEATRICAL COMPANY: $6k → 9%TOWLE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY: $8k → 15%ASSOCIATION OF ARTISTS & CRAFTSMEN: $7k → 9%BOOKS BRUSHES & BANDS: $6k → 15%AREA ARTISTS & CRAFTSMENT: $7k → 9%BOOKS BRUSHES & BANDS: $6k → 15%ASSOCIATION OF ARTISTS & CRAFTSMEN: $7k → 9%BOOKS BRUSHES & BANDS: $6k → 15%AREA ARTISTS & CRAFTSMENT: $7k → 9%TOP 20 INC: $6k → 15%NORTHWEST INDIANA SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $110k → 15%NORTHWEST INDIANA SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $60k → 15%NORTHWEST INDIANA SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $25k → 15%THEATRE AT THE CENTER: $18k → 15%NORTHWEST INDIANA SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $18k → 15%THEATRE AT THE CENTER: $18k → 15%THEATRE AT THE CENTER: $18k → 15%THEATRE AT THE CENTER: $18k → 15%LAKESHORE COMMUNITY CONCERTS: $6k → 15%LAKESHORE COMMUNITY CONCERTS: $6k → 15%LAKESHORE COMMUNITY CONCERTS: $6k → 15%DECAY DEVILS: $7k → 15%MILLER BEACH ARTS: $7k → 15%MILLER BEACH ARTS: $7k → 15%MILLER BEACH ARTS: $7k → 15%MILLER BEACH ARTS: $7k → 15%BEACH FRONT DANCE STUDIO: $6k → 15%BEACH FRONT DANCE STUDIO: $6k → 15%SOUTH SHORE DANCE ALLIANCE: $6k → 15%SOUTH SHORE DANCE ALLIANCE: $6k → 15%BEACH FRONT DANCE STUDIO: $6k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$615k · 13 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
1

Total granted

$615k
$7k

Still filing today

92%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • TJ
    THE JACK AND SHIRLEY LUBEZNIK CENTER FOR THE ARTS
    4× · 2017–2020 · $50k · revenue +25%
  • LC
    LAPORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $39k · revenue +143%
  • CT
    Community Theatre Guild Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $37k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • DD
    DECAY DEVILS INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2019 · $7k

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.

1
Lake Area Ballet Theatre

The faculty and board of Lake Area Ballet Theatre are dedicated to staging full-scale ballet performances, producing new and innovative works, and providing a strong and diverse curriculum for the next generation of dancers.

Arts & Culture
2
North Shore Civic Ballet

Training young dancers in the performance of ballet.

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3
Southeastern Indiana Dance Inc

Arts and Education

Youth Development
4
North Atlanta Dance Theatre Inc

Enrichment of cultural environment by providing the North Atlanta area community with high quality performances and opportunities for young and gifted performers.

Arts & Culture
5
The Performing Arts Collective Inc

Performing arts productions

Arts & Culture
6
Sokolow Theatre Dance Ensemble Ltd

For the Production of dance choreography & music.

Arts & Culture
7
Lumiere Ballet Co Inc

Promote understanding Of Classical Dance

Arts & Culture
8
Schuylkill Ballet Theatre

Perfomrances were staged by students for the public.

Arts & Culture
9
Pulse Dance Company
Arts & Culture
10
Bucks County Performing Arts Center

Performing arts concerts and arts in education

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11
Theatre in the Park Inc

Live theatre of the performing arts

Human Services
12
Jersey City Ballet Theater

Ballet theater

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dunes Art Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Assoc of Artists and Craftsmen of Porter Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTHWEST INDIANA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC — $213,476 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST INDIANA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INCTheater at the Center Inc — $73,193 · Arts & CultureTheater at the Center IncTHE JACK AND SHIRLEY LUBEZNIK CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $50,078 · Arts & CultureTHE JACK AND SHIRLEY LUBEZNIK CENTER FOR THE ARTSLAPORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $38,522 · Arts & CultureLAPORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCINDIANA BALLET THEATRE NW INC — $38,522 · Arts & CultureINDIANA BALLET THEATRE NW INCCommunity Theatre Guild Inc — $36,652 · Arts & CultureCommunity Theatre Guild IncASSOC OF ARTISTS AND CRAFTSMEN OF PORTER INC — $26,966 · Arts & CultureMILLER BEACH ARTS & CREATIVE DISTRICT CDC — $26,963 · Arts & CultureTOWLE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY — $23,337 · Arts & CultureSouth Shore Dance Alliance Inc — $23,112 · Arts & CultureBOOKS BRUSHES AND BANDS FOR EDUCATION INC — $23,112 · Arts & CultureBEACHFRONT DANCE SCHOOL INC — $23,112 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $39,168 · Arts & Culture+4 moreDECAY DEVILS INCORPORATED — $7,250 · OtherART BARN SCHOOL OF ART INC — $6,807 · OtherVALPARAISO THEATRICAL COMPANY — $6,108 · Other
Arts & Culture$636,213Other$20,165

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetLAPORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $38,522 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetINDIANA BALLET THEATRE NW INC — $38,522 over 4y, 3.2% 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
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.

John W Anderson Found…Legacy Foundation IncNisource Charitable F…Unity Foundation of l…Porter County Communi…The Cleveland-Cliffs …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 South Shore Arts 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.

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no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 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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