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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2020 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $158,075, the rows itemized in this filing. The $303,171 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $145,096 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
MEMORIAL OPERA HOUSE$9,724
LA PORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$9,724
INDIANA BALLET THEATRE$9,724
COMMUNITY THEATRE GUILD$9,724
TOWLE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY$7,779
MILLER BEACH ARTS$6,807
ASSOCIATION OF ARTISTS & CRAFTSMEN$6,807
ART BARN SCHOOL OF ART INC$6,807
TOP 20 INC$6,108
VALPARAISO THEATRICAL COMPANY$6,108
SOUTH SHORE DANCE ALLIANCE$5,834
LAKESHORE COMMUNITY CONCERTS$5,834
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%MEMORIAL OPERA HOUSE: $10k → 9%INDIANA BALLET THEATRE: $10k → 15%LUBEZNIK CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $13k → 15%COMMUNITY THEATRE GUILD: $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%THEATRE AT THE CENTER: $18k → 15%THEATRE AT THE CENTER: $18k → 15%NORTHWEST INDIANA SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $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%SOUTH SHORE DANCE ALLIANCE: $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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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.

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
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
Lumiere Ballet Co Inc

Promote understanding Of Classical Dance

Arts & Culture
3
The Performing Arts Collective Inc

Performing arts productions

Arts & Culture
4
Sokolow Theatre Dance Ensemble Ltd

For the Production of dance choreography & music.

Arts & Culture
5
Southeastern Indiana Dance Inc

Arts and Education

Youth Development
6
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
7
Schuylkill Ballet Theatre

Perfomrances were staged by students for the public.

Arts & Culture
8
North Shore Civic Ballet

Training young dancers in the performance of ballet.

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9
Pulse Dance Company
Arts & Culture
10
La Donna Dance Inc

Artistic and cultural

Arts & Culture
11
Mazarte Dance Company Inc

Arts & culture

Arts & Culture
12
Jersey City Ballet Theater

Ballet theater

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dunes Art Foundation Inc; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ARTSINDIANA BALLET THEATRE NW INC: $38,522 · Arts & CultureINDIANA BALLET THEATRE NW INCLAPORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $38,522 · Arts & CultureLAPORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization South Shore Arts Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from South Shore Arts Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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