· Public charity
United Way of Greater Laporte County Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STEPPING STONE SHELTER FOR WOMEN | $35,000 |
| CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR THE HOMELESS | $35,000 |
| LAPORTE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS -MC | $30,000 |
| OPEN DOOR ADOLESCENT HEALTH CENTER | $30,000 |
| DUNEBROOK | $20,000 |
| IMAGINATION STATION | $20,000 |
| MICHIGAN CITY AREA SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF LAPORTE COUNTY | $20,000 |
| FAMILY ADVOCATES | $20,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF LAPORTE | $15,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF MICHIGAN CITY | $15,000 |
| LAPORTE FAMILY YMCA | $10,000 |
| INTERFAITH COMMUNITY PADS | $10,000 |
| NORTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $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 (FY19–24, $159k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
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 +51% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- SSSTEPPING STONE SHELTER FOR WOMEN INC6× · 2019–2024 · $189k · revenue +114%
- CCCITIZENS CONCERNED FOR THE HOMELESS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $174k · revenue +79%
- YSYOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF LA PORTE COUNTY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $122k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHILD CARE CONSORTIUM INCone grant, 2019 · $16k
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 resources for low income clients.
To provide family and individual counseling
Emergency shelter for victims of domestic abuse and supportive services to all victims of abuse
Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.
Provide shelter and assistance to victims of domestic violence in lake county and the flathead indian reservation.
Provide early child development to disadvantaged children
To prevent child abuse and strengthen families.
To provide safe shelter, advocacy, counseling, referrals and support to all victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
To improve the quality of life in our community through crisis intervention and violence prevention.
Child respite and child abuse prevention.
Family and children's services provides compassionate care, intervention and education to support people during challenging times in their lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Central Community Action Agencies Inc and the most unlike its peers is Youth Service Bureau of La Porte County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 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.
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 STEPPING STONE SHELTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF LA PORTE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds LAPORTE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds DUNEBROOK INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN CITY AREA SCHOOLS GRANT ACCEPTANCE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PALADIN INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LA PORTE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD CARE CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF GARY ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COMMUNITY PADS 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: Unity Foundation of la Porte County · Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation · Healthcare Foundation of la Porte Inc · The Barker Welfare Foundation · John W Anderson Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Duneland Health Council · Leonard J and Irene Brown Foundation Inc · Howmet Aerospace Foundation · Early Learning Indiana Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving 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 Laporte County 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.
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.