Grants in Action

The Porter County Community Foundation was founded in 1996 and since then has awarded over $37 million in grants and scholarships to organizations and students in our community.

The Porter County Community Foundation seeks to improve lives in Porter County by providing funds through an open grant-making process for humanitarian, cultural, educational and environmental purposes. If you would like to help make grants like these possible give now to the Community Fund.

2023 Grants… See your generosity at work

2023 Community Fund Grants

In 2023, the Foundation was pleased to provide funding to the following nonprofit organizations:

  • 4th Street Theatre

  • Art Barn School of Art

  • Call-A-Ride

  • The Caring Place

  • Compass International Family Center

  • Dressed for School

  • Duneland Family YMCA

  • Family House

  • Food Bank of Northwest Indiana

  • Girls on the Run of Northwest Indiana

  • Hilltop Neighborhood House

  • Humane Indiana

  • Independent Cat Society

  • Liberty Township Volunteer Fire Department

  • MAAC Foundation

  • Memorial Opera House Foundation

  • Moraine House

  • Northwest Indiana Symphony

  • Opportunity Enterprises

  • PACT

  • Playact Theatre

  • Portage Recovery Association

  • Portage Township YMCA

  • Porter County Parks Foundation

  • St. Agnes Adult Day Service Center

  • Three20 Recovery Center

  • True North Training Stables

  • Valparaiso Family YMCA