· Private foundation
The Wyn and Carol Laidig Foundation Inc Age
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $117k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $773k
- $250k+1 grant · $327k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mishawaka Parks Foundation | $327,401 |
| Compassion International | $247,750 |
| Wycliffe Bible Translators | $160,000 |
| DANIEL LAIDIG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| Iraqi Children's Foundation | $80,000 |
| Salvation Army | $70,000 |
| CEF North Central Indiana | $65,000 |
| Michiana Family Center | $50,000 |
| Village Heartbeat | $30,000 |
| Teach Beyond | $21,500 |
| A Rosie Place | $20,000 |
| Studio Ten Ministries | $15,000 |
| CRU | $10,000 |
| Pioneers | $10,000 |
| 466 Works Community Development Corp | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $488k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +64% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $459k 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
Compassion International Incorporated7× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +16%- ICIraqi Children Foundation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $695k · revenue +339%
- STSTUDIO TEN MINISTRIES INC4× · 2018–2025 · $351k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- PZPOTTAWATOMI ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $410k
- MVMIAMI VILLAGE CHURCH INCone grant, 2018 · $110k
- CCCULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +32%
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.
Childrens Home and Ministry in India
Reconciliaton Ministries Intl. is a Christian evangelical organization preaching and teaching the Word of God in over 60 countries. The ministry equips and encourages Christians everywhere to be saved, healed, and delivered according to…
Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…
The mission of CFI is to follow James 127 which states to look after orphans and widows in their distress CFI also partners with churches and organizations overseas to see this fulfilled.
i58 Global is a Christian ministry dedicated to recruiting, sending and organizing relief workers to provide aid and share hope to refugees in various European countries.
To be an organization where people are excited to assist in the love and care of the orphan and those in foster care, as well as providing temporary housing and training for those in the worldwide missionary field.
To further the name of christ in an international environment by holding church and evangelistic services including house of prayer and training center for equipping people in futhering christianity. the english language is also taught in…
Offers counsel, formal & informal teaching served in a pastoral role, mentored groups,filled numerous speaking invitations, conducted discipling groups & provided spiritual, emotional and
Our vision is to catalyze a Disciple Making Movement that will bless every church and every People, teaching others who will impact others for time and eternity.
Sozo International partners with at-risk families to create a sustainable future and transformed lives through education, health, and economic initiatives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cultivate Culinary School and Catering Inc and the most unlike its peers is Daniel Laidig Family Foundation Inc Agency. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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. 27 of the 73 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 Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds DANIEL LAIDIG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC AGENCY ↗
- Who funds Iraqi Children Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds STUDIO TEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds UBORATZ INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds BETHEL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds El Ayudante Missions USA Inc ↗
- Who funds MIAMI VILLAGE CHURCH INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIANA FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Village Heartbeat ↗
- Who funds POTAWATOMI ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATES FOR BIBLICAL RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds unfoldingWord ↗
- Who funds WORLD MISSIONARY PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL SERVE INTERNATIONAL 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: Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Schwartz Wiekamp Foundation · Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center- South Bend Campus Inc · Klockow Harvey R and Doris Fdn · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · International Generosity Foundation Trust · Tyndale House Ministries
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 The Wyn and Carol Laidig Foundation Inc Age 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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