Northwest Central Indiana Community
West Lafayette, IN · EIN 47-5516146. Reported 60 grants totalling $7,969,618 to 39 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Northwest Central Indiana Community, by its IRS classification it provides support services within community improvement (NTEE S19).
- How spread out its giving is. 39 distinct organizations, with 17% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 35% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $67,870. Half of what it reported fell between $50,000 and $131,333; the smallest was $11,780 and the largest $876,171. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tippecanoe School Corp | Lafayette, IN | $1,347,155 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lafayette Urban Enterprise Association Inc | Lafayette, IN | $798,087 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lafayette School Corp | Lafayette, IN | $778,357 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN | $640,401 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Logansport Community School Corpora | Logansport, IN | $427,817 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Frankfort School Corp | Frankfort, IN | $391,843 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| West Lafayette School Corporation | West Lafayette, IN | $288,305 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Crawfordsville School Corporation | Crawfordsville, IN | $252,435 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Twin Lakes School Corp | Monticello, IN | $224,489 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Carroll County School Corporation | Flora, IN | $217,966 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| North Montgomery Schools | Crawfordsville, IN | $183,279 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| South Montgomery Community School Corporation | New Market, IN | $164,861 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Delphi Community Schools Corporatio | Delphi, IN | $139,836 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lewis Cass School Corp | Walton, IN | $133,730 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Msd of Warren County | Williamsport, IN | $131,128 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Southeast Fountain Schools | Veedersburg, IN | $129,449 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Clinton Prairie School Corp | Frankfrot, IN | $121,034 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pioneer Regional School Corporation | Royal Center, IN | $119,506 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Eastern Pulaski School Corporation | Winamac, IN | $114,812 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Benton County Schools | Fowler, IN | $104,787 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Clinton Central School Corp | Michigantown, IN | $101,953 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Foundation of Howard County Inc | Kokomo, IN | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Greater Lafayette Community Foundation | Lafayette, IN | $100,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rossville Consolidated School Distr | Rossville, IN | $93,291 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| North White Schools | Monon, IN | $84,282 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Covington Community School Corporat | Covington, IN | $81,829 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Culver Community Schools Corporatio | Culver, IN | $75,593 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Caston School Corp | Rochester, IN | $67,114 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| West Central School Corporation | Francesville, IN | $66,865 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Frontier School Corporation | Chalmers, IN | $63,662 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Attica Consolidated School Corp | Attica, IN | $60,675 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Benton Community Foundation Inc | Fowler, IN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cass County Community Foundation Inc | Logansport, IN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Foundation of Pulaski Inc | Winamac, IN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Montgomery County Community Foundation Inc | Crawfordsvlle, IN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Warren County Community Foundation Inc | Williamsport, IN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Western Indiana Community Foundation Inc | Covington, IN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tri County Schools | Wolcott, IN | $33,947 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ivy Tech Foundation Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $31,130 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
18 of 39 (46%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 10 of 39 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 11 | $1,471,534 | $104,477 |
| 2022 | 22 | $2,461,085 | $50,000 |
| 2023 | 27 | $4,036,999 | $99,602 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $67,870 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Indiana.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Northwest Central Indiana Community's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1281 Win Hentschel Blvd Ste 2310, West Lafayette, IN, 47906.
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