· Public charity
United Way of Marshall County Inc
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of marshall county communities to advance the common good, helping families and individuals achieve their full potential through education, financial stability and healthy lives.
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.
The 13 grants below total $541,867 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $602,959 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $61,092 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 $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $56k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $457k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ENFOCUS LLC | $135,848 |
| FSSA | $94,296 |
| LINK TO HOPE | $91,240 |
| INDIANA ASSOCIATION OF UNITED WAYS | $75,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MARSHALL | $60,800 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA | $24,000 |
| CREATIVE INSIGHT COMMUNITY | $12,000 |
| CULTIVATE | $10,000 |
| CHILD AND PARENT SERVICES | $10,000 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK | $8,000 |
| MC NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER GIFT OF | $8,000 |
| DAVID'S COURAGE | $7,000 |
| MARSHALL COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING | $5,683 |
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, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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.
17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $191k 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
- EIENFOCUS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $297k · revenue +62%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARSHALL COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $285k · revenue +81%
- MCMarshall County Neighborhood Council9× · 2017–2025 · $250k · revenue +37% · 27% of their budget
Funded once
- TLTWIN LAKES DAYCAREone grant, 2024 · $130k
- BPBremen Public Schoolsone grant, 2020 · $59k
- BFBREAD FOR LIFE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $55k · revenue +48%
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.
To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
CoAction envisions the people of Northwest Indiana flourishing regardless of income, ability or age. Thus, people experiencing financial hardship find opportunities, resources and respect at CoAction.
We prepare and deliver essential nutritious meals to our community, promoting health, wellness, and independence of all, with the support of a diverse and engaged community network.
Provide services in response to individual need
Provide resources for low income clients.
By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.
None
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.
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.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
Focusing community resources to meet community needs the United Way of Marquette County works to advance the common good by connecting people with health and human care issues they are concerned about and to provide the oversight the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child and Parent Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alliance for Strategic Growth Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 40 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 ENFOCUS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARSHALL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Marshall County Neighborhood Council ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds INDIANA ASSOCIATION OF UNITED WAYS INC ↗
- Who funds CULVER COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR LIFE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR STRATEGIC GROWTH INC ↗
- Who funds KOSCIUSKO COUNTY SHELTER FOR ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BOWEN HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Davids Courage Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MUNCIE INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds INSIGHT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND PARENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ MN ↗
- Who funds DUSTINS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds REAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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: Marshall County Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Kosciusko County Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · Flynn Family Foundation · Northern Indiana Community Foundation Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Nisource Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Marshall 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.