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NORTHWEST INDIANA FORUM INC

EIN 35-1467924 PORTAGE, IN

Largest nonprofits in Indiana

Revenue 2024
$1,117,656
Expenses 2024
$1,150,298

Program services were 80.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
06
Classification
2000
Street
6100 SOUTHPORT RD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE NORTHWEST INDIANA FORUM IS THE REGIONAL VOICE FOR THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY AND PREMIERE SOURCE OF A FULL PACKAGE OF SERVICES THAT PROMOTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND RETENTION OF QUALITY JOBS. WITH MORE THAN 160 INVESTOR ORGANIZATIONS, THE FORUM'S MISSION IS TO INCREASE THE BROAD-BASED WEALTH IN NORTHWEST INDIANA THROUGH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO INCREASE BROAD-BASED WEALTH IN NORTHWEST INDIANA THROUGH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN HARMONY WITH THE ENVIRONMENT.

  • OUTREACH AND EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS ENCOURAGING ENVIRONMENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, JOB CREATION, AND CAPITAL INVESTMENT IN THE 7-COUNTY AREA (LAKE, PORTER, LAPORTE, STARKE, JASPER, NEWTON, AND PULASKI).

    Expenses $928,585 · Revenue $1,034,839

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Brian Hittinger

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Dewey Pearman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Erica Dombey

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Helen Pennington

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Jim Jorgensen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Lisa Daughterty

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Tony Oss

    PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Greg Gordon

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Natalie Skaro

    DIRECTOR (TERM 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Nathan Origer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Jill Ritchie

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Rick Calinski

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Alisha Berglund

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Clarence L Hulse

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Matt Vessely

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Phil Taillon

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Raenn Trakas

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Sara Deyoung

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dave Bareham

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Chancellor Ken Iawama

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dean Mazzoni

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Justin Mount

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Lori Tubbs

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Matt Gower

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Phil Greiner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,117,656
    Expenses
    $1,150,298
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,377,894
    Expenses
    $875,282
    Contributions
    $1,357,577
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $983,450
    Expenses
    $680,387
    Contributions
    $968,650
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $574,234
    Expenses
    $666,850
    Assets (EOY)
    $147,032
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $521,415
    Expenses
    $534,259
    Assets (EOY)
    $269,873

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.