How much did UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC grant in FY2023?

UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC reported 21 grants totaling $474,400 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC based?

UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC is based in IN.

UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC

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· Public charity

UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC

United way of northwest indiana is committed to:a.continually evaluating and adapting to community needsb.maintaining excellence, integrity, and accountability in allendeavorsc.empowering community members to achieve their charitable givinggoalsd.respecting the dignity of all peoplee.building coalitions and partnershipsf.ensuring quality…

$474k

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$50k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

shelter

2020

shelter

2021

active

2022

level navigatornewtonproblemschristian

2023

shelter

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k5 grants · $35k
$10k–50k15 grants · $368k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE CARING PLACE INC$50,000
VNA OF PORTER COUNTY$41,600
HILLTOP NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE$41,000
OPPORTUNITY ENTERPRISES$36,000
HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES$35,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHWEST INDIANA$35,000
DUNELAND FAMILY YMCA$33,000
PORTER COUNTY AGING & COMMUNITY$30,000
PORTAGE TOWNSHIP YMCA$24,000
PARENTS AS TEACHERS OF PORTER COUNTY$15,000
PORTER COUNTY PACT$15,000
MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF NORTHWEST INDIANA$15,000
PORTER-STARKE SERVICES$12,000
HEALTHLINC$12,000
PC ASSOC FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN & ADULTS INC$12,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 12%. 32% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 13% of UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in IN; read by stated purpose it is 67% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INClessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.2M · 25 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.2M

$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+25%

Still filing today

76%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionEmploymentOther

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

FB
FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA
2× · 2021–2022 · $362k · revenue +93%
PC
PORTER COUNTY AGING & COMMUNITY
5× · 2019–2023 · $355k · revenue +27%
HO
HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES
5× · 2019–2023 · $347k · revenue +85%

Funded once

M
MISCELLANEOUS
one grant, 2021 · $1.1M
TS
THE SALVATION ARMY OF LAKE COUNTY
one grant, 2022 · $282k
MO
MEALS ON WHEELS OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $166k · revenue +95%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

The Open Door of Indiana

Human services

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Hoosier Families Inc

Hoosier Families Inc. is dedicated to safeguarding the well-being of children and families. Through our comprehensive programs and services, we actively work to prevent child abuse and neglect, offering support and resources to families in…

Human Services

Portage Trail Care Center Inc

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.

Health

Habitat for Humanity of Portage County

Provide affordable housing

Housing & Shelter

Indiana Community Action

The indiana community action association (in-caa) works to strengthen the capacity of indiana's community action agencies to address community needs and poverty.

—

Human Services Inc

Outpatient mental health, mental health residential, and homeless services.

Human Services

Pathways Counseling Center Inc

Community Mental Health, Drug Abuse and Alcoholism Services.

Education

Lincoln Behavioral Services

Lincoln Behavioral Services provides comprehensive outpatient mental health and physical health services to individuals residing in southeastern Michigan.

Health

Indiana County Community Action Program

Provide resources for low income clients.

Human Services

Pender Adult Services Inc

Operates a care center and provides services to the elderly including home delivered meals, congregate meals, companion services, personal care, patient medical aid, and group activities.

Human Services

Wayne County Housing Inc

Housing for elderly and handicapped

Housing & Shelter

Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership Inc

to create affordable housing solutions for people with low and moderate incomes, and collaborate to enhance the quality of life in Indianapolis neighborhoods.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity Enterprises Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pines Village Retirement Communities Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/40

the rest of the field

12%

392/3,142

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.

06the grantee network

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/32

Grantees still filing

23/32

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,448,357Human Services$1,394,826Health$545,000Food & Nutrition$362,023Employment$259,600Crime & Legal$98,000Education$52,500

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.

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.

Porter County Community Foundation IncIN61.1× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Porter County Community Foundation Inc · John W Anderson Foundation · Legacy Foundation Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Lake Area United Way Inc · Early Learning Indiana Inc · Forszt Brothers Charitable Foundation In · Crown Point Community Foundation Inc · 1st Source Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Porter County Substance Abuse Council

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 organisation UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CATHOLIC CHARITIES.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~9 months of operating runway; revenue held over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 351122204 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CATHOLIC CHARITIES, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 47% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to United Way of Northwest Indiana Inc?

Find your warmest path to United Way of Northwest Indiana Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Northwest Indiana Inc?

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UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Northwest Indiana Inc?

More from the funding graph