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INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC

INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC (Indiana) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,949,252 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($961,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.7M
Revenue FY2024
21
Funders on record
$2.9M
Grants received
$2.0M
Net assets
18/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%

Against its field

INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 13 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve4.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,184 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($469k)2018 Revenue 126 ($1.5M) Expenses 97 ($1.2M) Net assets 153 ($720k)2019 Revenue 112 ($1.3M) Expenses 96 ($1.2M) Net assets 177 ($828k)2020 Revenue 70 ($833k) Expenses 68 ($863k) Net assets 169 ($795k)2021 Revenue 146 ($1.7M) Expenses 62 ($794k) Net assets 380 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 115 ($1.4M) Expenses 97 ($1.2M) Net assets 380 ($1.8M)2023 Revenue 126 ($1.5M) Expenses 124 ($1.6M) Net assets 386 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 141 ($1.7M) Expenses 135 ($1.7M) Net assets 426 ($2.0M)
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Revenue (141)Expenses (135)Net assets (426)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 19% · 2018 24% · 2019 14% · 2020 24% · 2021 24% · 2022 19% · 2023 14% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

58% of INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,285 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$87k
17
$251k
18
$114k
19
$30k
20
$939k
21
$136k
22
$82k
23
$45k
24
4.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $101k → $309k.

6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)20% 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 INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER 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

INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

35% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC.

33%
largest funder
56%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 49% · 2019 40% · 2020 33% · 2021 30% · 2022 29% · 2023 32%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

64% of INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 86% 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

56% of INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

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IN
OH
NJ
CA
DC

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

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Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $589k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 21 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record.

Federal$2.1M
grants $2.1Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of the Interior$1.7M
  • Department of Agriculture$399k
  • Environmental Protection Agency$10k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Indiana

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 18%Fundraising 8%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER 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 INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC?
INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC (Indiana) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,949,252 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($961,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $2,949,252 in grants to INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC?
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $961,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER 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.

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 21funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing