· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 53 grants below total $3,722,385 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,880,184 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $157,799 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $432k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIGHT STEPS CHILD DEVELOPMENT | $500,000 |
| BAUER FAMILY RESOURCES | $347,000 |
| LTHC HOMELESS SERVICES | $309,500 |
| WILLOWSTONE FAMILY SERVICES INC | $279,734 |
| LYN TREECE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $223,250 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION | $203,994 |
| WABASH CENTER | $200,012 |
| TIPPECANOE SENIOR CENTER | $184,175 |
| YWCA | $151,938 |
| FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK | $109,615 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $90,630 |
| LAFAYETTE FAMILY YMCA | $75,757 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $70,166 |
| RIGGS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $70,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF SAGAMORE COUNCIL | $61,030 |
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 (FY17–25, $12.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% 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.
83 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 4 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- TCTIPPECANOE COUNTY CHILD CARE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $4.6M · revenue +66%
- BFBAUER FAMILY RESOURCES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +52%
- LTLAFAYETTE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +89%
Funded once
- MGMULTIPLE GRANTS 5000one grant, 2021 · $253k
- LSLAFAYETTE SCHOOL CORPORATIONone grant, 2020 · $38k
- NCNORTH CENTRAL NURSING CLINICS INCone grant, 2022 · $31k
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.
Provide services in response to individual need
Provide resources for low income clients.
Indiana united way is the leading voice to advocate, engage, and partner with a strong united way network and key stakeholders to advance human well-being throughout indiana.
Jackson county united way assesses needs, secures resources and strategically invests those resources to create lasting, measurable change in the areas of education, health and financial stability for all people in jackson county.
The mission of the united way of indiana county is to meet critical needs and improve the quality of life throughout indiana county by inspiring and uniting its residents.
To serve as a catalyst for collaboration and innovation in la porte county to achieve equity, financial stability, educational advancement and personal well-being for our youth, families and neighbors.
To positively impact the lives of those in our community by assessing needs, uniting partner organizations, agencies, and volunteers, and devoting our financial resources and efforts to the most critical needs.
To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.
Hoosier Families is a non-profit organization that provides Community Based programs for Indiana children and families. Hoosier Families is committed to utilizing evidence-based practices to strengthen, rebuild and reunite the individuals…
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
To provide compassionate, patient-centered care for mind and body that improves the quality of life for our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley Oaks Health Inc and the most unlike its peers is Caterpillar Foundation. 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 45 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
95 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. 95 of the 121 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 TIPPECANOE COUNTY CHILD CARE INC ↗
- Who funds BAUER FAMILY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA WABASH VALLEY REGION INC ↗
- Who funds LYN TREECE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TIPPECANOE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WABASH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TIPPECANOE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LAFAYETTE ↗
- Who funds FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds RIGGS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brother Big Sisters of Greater Lafayette ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LAFAYETTE ↗
- Who funds HANNA COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA SAGAMORE COUNCIL 162 ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID CORP OF TIPPECANOE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Caterpillar Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEART OF ILLINOIS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Family Crisis Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds Greater Lafayette Family Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE URBAN MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LAFAYETTE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER LAFAYETTE ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF TIPPECANOE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI West Central Indiana Inc ↗
- Who funds Matrix LifeCare Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Purdue Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
- Who funds Pams Promise Transitional Housing ↗
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: 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
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 United Way of Greater Lafayette 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.