Welcome to Northern Indiana Community Foundation
Since 1993, the Northern Indiana Community Foundation, Inc. (NICF) has brought caring people and charitable endeavors together for the good of the community. The NICF serves the Community Foundations of Starke, Fulton and Miami Counties. This arrangement allows us to maximize our investment benefits and be more cost-efficient. Thus gifts can do more for the counties they are given to.

The NICF is a public trust, a public charity that gives donors flexible and tax-effective ways to ensure their charitable giving. Operating under state and federal laws, we work to build substantial endowment funds for our community through contributions large and small.

  Report by Community Foundation Insights (CFI)

June 2010

The Northern Indiana Community Foundation, Inc. was recently mentioned in a report issued by Community Foundation Insights (CFI), which is a centralized data resource for community foundations across the country. This organization provides data so that individual community foundations can see how they stand up to their peers in a number of different categories. CFI has just issued its 2009 Benchmarking Report entitled, "Benchmarking Beyond Asset Size: Top 100 Lists." That report seeks to look at other factors besides total assets in a community foundation, and looks instead at "Most Gifts Per Capita", "Most Activity", and "Most Active Grantmakers."

The Northern Indiana Community Foundation, Inc. was ranked in the top 100 community foundations around the country in each of those three categories. In the category of "Most Active Grantmakers", NICF was listed at number 57, with an 11% distribution rate and 8% of its total assets being donor-advised funds. In the category of "Most Activity", NICF finished at number 97, with 2,700 total transactions and an average transaction size of $1,798. Finally, in the category of "Most Gifts Per Capita", NCIF finished at number 24, with a per capita gift of $41.54 on a population served of 75,000.

A full copy of this report can be found at www.cfinsights.org/home/