Indiana · Public charity
United Way of Greater Lafayette
Mission - mobilizing our community to action so all can thrive vision - for over 100 years, we have partnered with local nonprofits, businesses, community leaders, donors and volunteers to create solutions that address the most complex challenges that no single person or organization can solve alone. True to our founding spirit, whenever…
- $3.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 53
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $3.7M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $31,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 64
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations United Way of Greater Lafayette funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 47 | $3.7M | 9% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $3.8M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 50 | $3.8M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $3.8M | 4% |
| FY2021 | 63 | $5.3M | 30% |
| FY2020 | 64 | $5.1M | 41% |
| FY2019 | 45 | $4.1M | 11% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $4.1M | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tippecanoe County Child Care Inc | $4,601,000 | 9 | 11% |
| Bauer Family Resources Inc | $3,338,612 | 9 | 6% |
| Lafayette Transitional Housing Center Inc | $3,197,568 | 9 | 17% |
| Family Services Inc | $2,667,158 | 9 | 21% |
| Mental Health America Wabash Valley Region Inc | $2,160,828 | 9 | 44% |
| Lyn Treece Boys & Girls Club of Tippecanoe County | $2,071,500 | 9 | 30% |
| Wabash Center Inc | $2,046,352 | 9 | 2% |
| Tippecanoe County Council on Aging Inc | $1,768,770 | 9 | 37% |
| Young Womens Christian Association of Greater Lafayette | $1,515,505 | 9 | 9% |
| Food Finders Food Bank Inc | $1,424,559 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 115 grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($270k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
United Way of Greater Lafayette supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 89 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Lafayette Community Foundation · North Central Health Services Inc · Montgomery County Community Foundation Inc · Sia Foundation Inc · Indiana University Health Arnett Inc · Community Foundation of Howard County · James K and Mary Jo Risk Family Foundation Inc · Arconic Foundation · Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Scheumann Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About United Way of Greater Lafayette
- How much does United Way of Greater Lafayette give?
- United Way of Greater Lafayette reported 53 itemized grants totaling $3,722,385, out of $3,880,184 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 64 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does United Way of Greater Lafayette fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (44%), Health (17%), Youth Development (12%).
- Who are United Way of Greater Lafayette's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Tippecanoe County Child Care Inc ($4.6M), Bauer Family Resources Inc ($3.3M), Lafayette Transitional Housing Center Inc ($3.2M).
- Does United Way of Greater Lafayette fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Greater Lafayette?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Lafayette Community Foundation, North Central Health Services Inc, Montgomery County Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is United Way of Greater Lafayette based?
- United Way of Greater Lafayette is based in IN.
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