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BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,693,525 to it, the largest being JOHN W ANDERSON FOUNDATION ($27,478,500). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$12M
Funders on record
47
Grants received
$41M
Net assets
$30M
27/47 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 59%
01What it does

What Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Northwest Indiana Inc does

Mission

To inspire and enable the youth of our communities to reach their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. In 2024, boys & girls clubs of greater northwest indiana, inc. Provided a safe place for more than five thousand kindergartens through high school aged children to participate in programs during non-school hours and summer months. We offer diversified programs at eleven facilities and an additional kidstop child care program for before and after school care at nine porter county school sites. We offer programs in five core areas: education and career development; fitness, sports and recreation; the arts; character and leadership; and health and life skills. While they are separate in many ways, they add up to the most essential outcome of all: young people who are prepared to enter the adult world as productive, responsible, caring citizens.

    $9,326,934 spentof which $12,500 as grants$1,653,250 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,326,934.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.8M) Expenses 100 ($3.5M) Net assets 100 ($6.0M)2019 Revenue 214 ($8.3M) Expenses 213 ($7.5M) Net assets 239 ($14M)2020 Revenue 323 ($12M) Expenses 229 ($8.1M) Net assets 311 ($19M)2021 Revenue 367 ($14M) Expenses 227 ($8.0M) Net assets 411 ($25M)2022 Revenue 311 ($12M) Expenses 323 ($11M) Net assets 420 ($25M)2023 Revenue 420 ($16M) Expenses 337 ($12M) Net assets 492 ($30M)2024 Revenue 305 ($12M) Expenses 327 ($12M) Net assets 497 ($30M)
2017201920202021202220232024
Revenue (305)Expenses (327)Net assets (497)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $23M to $29M (+26%).

$9.8M
$19M
$23M
$29M
$33M
$36M
$36M
2017201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2019 6% · 2020 10% · 2021 9% · 2022 24% · 2023 13% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

85% of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 207 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$307k
’17
$727k
’19
$4.3M
’20
$6.1M
’21
$535k
’22
$4.2M
’23
$140k
’24
6.1
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Michael Jessen

President & CEO

Board chair

Rene Martin

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2017201920202021202220232024
Listed24413233273435
Joined··+3+6+1+9+4
No longer listed··125723
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $2.3M → $7.6M.

11 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

68%
largest funder
87%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 66% · 2019 85% · 2020 69% · 2021 63% · 2022 73% · 2023 65% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

47% of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

76% of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
NJ
CA
NE
MO
VA
TN
NC
SC
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
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’22
’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 203 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve6.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 203 youth development nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 14%Fundraising 5%

Governance

27
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

57%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

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Questions and answers

Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC?
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,693,525 to it, the largest being JOHN W ANDERSON FOUNDATION ($27,478,500). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC have?
IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $40,693,525 in grants to BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC?
JOHN W ANDERSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $27,478,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 47 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing