· Public charity
Unity Foundation of la Porte County
Unity foundation will strengthen la porte county now and forever by building permanent endowments, providing leadership, offering philanthropic vehicles for everyone, and being a catalyst for social and economic vitality.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 59 grants below total $1,081,498 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,690,212 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $608,714 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $238k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $434k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $409k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER LAPORTE ECONOMIC | $194,666 |
| LA LUMIERE SCHOOL | $163,865 |
| LA PORTE COUNTY SMALL ANIMAL | $50,900 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB LAPORTE COUNTY | $45,351 |
| WOMEN'S CARE CENTER FOUNDATION | $41,715 |
| PURDUE NORTHWEST | $39,964 |
| LA PORTE FAMILY YMCA | $38,208 |
| MICHIGAN CITY MUNICIPAL BAND | $26,784 |
| BEVERLY UNITARIAN CHURCH | $26,000 |
| NEW DAY FOUNDATION | $22,000 |
| YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF LA PORTE | $20,444 |
| STEPPING STONE SHELTER FOR WOMEN | $19,823 |
| DUNEBROOK INC | $18,638 |
| MICHIGAN CITY HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| ST JOHN'S UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $14,771 |
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 (FY17–24, $268k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 74% 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.
75 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 10 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LA PORTE COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $252k · revenue +273%
- YSYOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF LA PORTE COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $178k · revenue +55%
- WCWOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC6× · 2017–2024 · $173k · revenue +165%
Funded once
- TFTHE FRIENDS OF THE LA PORTE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY INCone grant, 2022 · $59k
- EDERDHEIM-CHESTER DISEASE GLOBALone grant, 2019 · $42k
- MCMICHIGAN CITY MAINSTREET ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2022 · $34k · revenue -5%
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.
Direct enterprise zone activities and reinvestment in the city of lafayette, indiana.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
To be a voice for business and a forum for the exchange of ideas and through a variety of chamber programs and services, strengthen the economic vitality of east chicago, hammond, and northwest indiana.
To support healthcare and healthy lifestyles in the communities we serve.
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
An agribusiness network advocate, representing members' interests within all levels of government and keeping members informed of the latest industry trends and news.
Promote development in Perry County, Indiana
To stimulate and sustain a vibrant regional economy by facilitating economic growth and prosperity.
To enhance the competitive position and fulfill business requirements of independent agents and brokers, advocating buyer interest, and continually striving to be the premier trade association.
To solicit, receive, and provide funds and/or property, and to receive gifts, bequests, and memorials for securing, maintaining, and informing the public about facilities and programs provided by the parks and recreation department of the…
Promote and educate indiana residents on the state's economic success and positive gains.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unity Foundation of La Porte County and the most unlike its peers is New Prairie United School Building Corporation. 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 128 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 GREATER LAPORTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LA LUMIERE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LA PORTE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF LA PORTE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DUNEBROOK INC ↗
- Who funds LAPORTE COUNTY LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Housing Opportunities Inc ↗
- Who funds LAPORTE COUNTY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER LAPORTE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JACK AND SHIRLEY LUBEZNIK CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LAPORTE INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONE SHELTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds SHIRLEY HEINZE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF LA PORTE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COMMUNITY PADS INC ↗
- Who funds Michigan City Chamber Music Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL & LEARNING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP GARDENS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN HEALTH FOUNDATION 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: Healthcare Foundation of la Porte Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation · United Way of Greater Laporte County Inc · The Barker Welfare Foundation · John W Anderson Foundation · Porter County Community Foundation Inc · Duneland Health Council · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Levine Family of Laporte Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Matthew Frank Moore 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 Unity Foundation of la Porte County 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.
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