Indiana · Nonprofit
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,000 to it, the largest being Welter Foundation Inc ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $654k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $139k
- Net assets
- $478k
What Economic Development Corporation of Elkhart County Inc does
Mission
To create an economically vibrant community by recruiting, retaining, and strengthening our economic base; being a catalyst for diversification, innovation, and economic change. We accomplish our mission by working with companies looking to locate or expand in elkhart county.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Provide for education and training of persons to enter workforce. To improve elkhart county through restoration, creation, and expansion of existing businesses and work toward attracting new business into county.
$399,457 spent$21,608 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $399,457.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $775k to $1.0M (+29%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 54% · 2018 45% · 2019 43% · 2020 61% · 2021 61% · 2022 61% · 2023 59% · 2024 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Mike Yoder
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $15k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $128k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Elkhart General Hospital Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 55% · 2019 71% · 2020 57% · 2021 100% · 2022 67% · 2023 67% — 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.
Where its funders are
53% of ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,356 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,356 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC?
- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,000 to it, the largest being Welter Foundation Inc ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $139,000 in grants to ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC?
- Welter Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF ELKHART COUNTY 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 6 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing