· Public charity
United Way of Northwest Indiana Inc
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of northwest indiana to advance the common good.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 21 grants below total $453,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $474,400 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $21,200 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $368k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF NORTHWEST INDIANA | $15,000 |
| PARENTS AS TEACHERS OF PORTER COUNTY | $15,000 |
| PORTER COUNTY PACT | $15,000 |
| PC ASSOC FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN & ADULTS INC | $12,000 |
| HEALTHLINC | $12,000 |
| PORTER-STARKE SERVICES | $12,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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, 73% of the giving stays in IN; read by stated purpose it is 62% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- PCPORTER COUNTY AGING & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC5× · 2019–2023 · $225k · revenue +28%
- VNVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF PORTER COUNTY INDIANA INC5× · 2019–2023 · $216k · revenue +30%
- HIHEALTHLINC INC5× · 2019–2023 · $210k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- MMISCELLANEOUSone grant, 2021 · $1.1M
- FBFOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INCone grant, 2022 · $322k · revenue +16%
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2022 · $282k
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.
Our mission is to provide professional counseling with the highest level of ethical standards to individuals in the community . We believe in health, healing, hope, growth, recovery and transformation as foundational goals for everyone and…
To promote the healthy development of children and families through quality behavioral and mental health services, community partnerships and advocacy.
To provide services designed to adequately meet the needs of all persons with autism and other developmental disabilities residing in northwest indiana.
New hope of indiana, inc. is a leader in providing holistic services and resources to persons with disabilities and their families while advocating to advance the opportunities for those in need of support.
Provide services in response to individual need
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 provide support and services for those struggling with housing and poverty issues in our community.
Adult day program serving individuals with developmental disabilities and to support people to experience living, working, friendships and contributing as citizens of their community.
Services for senior citizens of posey county, indiana
To provide compassionate, patient-centered care for mind and body that improves the quality of life for our communities.
At indiana guardianship services, inc., we are dedicated to providing our clients with the same compassion, attention, and patience as our own family. through competence, service, and dignity, we uphold the values of the national…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Service Bureau of Porter County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Porter County Association for Handicapped Children and Adults in. 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 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 39 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF GARY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Housing Opportunities Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CARING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds PORTER COUNTY AGING & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF PORTER COUNTY INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHLINC INC ↗
- Who funds HILLTOP NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds DUNELAND YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PORTER COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRADEWINDS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PORTAGE TOWNSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PRISONER AND COMMUNITY TOGETHER PACT INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN PORTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PORTER-STARKE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PORTER COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN AND ADULTS IN ↗
- Who funds VALPARAISO YMCA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHLAKETRI-CITY MANAGEMENT CORPORATIO DBA GEMINUS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PARENTS AS TEACHERS OF PORTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GABRIEL'S HORN INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF PORTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRONTLINE FOUNDATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds DUNEBROOK INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTON COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MORAINE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST INDIANA REINVESTMENT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES ↗
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: Porter County Community Foundation Inc · John W Anderson Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Legacy Foundation Inc · Lake Area United Way Inc · Early Learning Indiana Inc · Forszt Brothers Charitable Foundation In · Crown Point Community Foundation Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Porter County Substance Abuse Council D/B/A Hub Coalition Porter County In
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 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.
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.