How much does Unity Foundation of la Porte County give?

Unity Foundation of la Porte County reported 59 itemized grants totaling $1,081,498, out of $1,690,212 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 59 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Unity Foundation of la Porte County fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Community Improvement (19%), Health (10%).

Who are Unity Foundation of la Porte County's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Greater Laporte Economic Development Corporation ($1.3M), La Lumiere School Inc ($568k), La Porte County Public Library ($548k).

Does Unity Foundation of la Porte County fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Unity Foundation of la Porte County?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Healthcare Foundation of la Porte Inc, Nisource Charitable Foundation, Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation.

Where is Unity Foundation of la Porte County based?

Unity Foundation of la Porte County is based in IN.

Unity Foundation of la Porte County

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· 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.

$1.7M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$195k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.8MCommunity Improvement$1.5MHealth$741kHuman Services$583kYouth Development$549kAnimals$489kArts & Culture$421kHousing & Shelter$352kOther$0

02FY2024 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 59 grants below total $1,081,498, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,690,212 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $608,714 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k35 grants · $238k
$10k–50k21 grants · $434k
$50k–250k3 grants · $409k

$8,641

Median grant

States reached

$51M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$7.1M · 75 repeat orgs$626k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.1M

$506k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

+30%

Still filing today

56%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LA PORTE COUNTY INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $252k · revenue +273%
YS
YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF LA PORTE COUNTY INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $178k · revenue +55%
WC
WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC
6× · 2017–2024 · $173k · revenue +191%

Funded once

TF
THE FRIENDS OF THE LA PORTE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
one grant, 2022 · $59k
ED
ERDHEIM-CHESTER DISEASE GLOBAL
one grant, 2019 · $42k
MC
MICHIGAN CITY MAINSTREET ASSOCIATION INC
one grant, 2022 · $34k · revenue -5%

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Healthy Communities of Laporte County Inc

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Lafayette Urban Enterprise Associat

Direct enterprise zone activities and reinvestment in the city of lafayette, indiana.

Community Improvement

Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit

Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce

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.

Community Improvement

Indiana Agribusiness Council Inc

An agribusiness network advocate, representing members' interests within all levels of government and keeping members informed of the latest industry trends and news.

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Laporte Hospital Foundation Inc

To support healthcare and healthy lifestyles in the communities we serve.

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Perry County Development Corp

Promote development in Perry County, Indiana

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Unity Foundation of La Porte County

Philanthropy

Lake Superior Community Partnership Inc

To stimulate and sustain a vibrant regional economy by facilitating economic growth and prosperity.

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Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana

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.

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West Lafayette Parks and Recreation Foundation Inc

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…

Recreation & Sports

Lagrange County Economic Development Corporation

The lagrange county economic development corporation is the single point of contact for economic development efforts in lagrange county, indiana. we work with regional, state and federal partners to support and encourgage our clients'…

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legacy Foundation Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

67/71

Grantees still filing

45/71

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,377,810Community Improvement$1,310,946Education$765,491Human Services$400,705Arts & Culture$345,152Health$321,049Youth Development$273,148

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Healthcare Foundation of la Porte IncIN55.6× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Unity Foundation of la Porte County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Unity Foundation of la Porte County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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