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NOBLE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

EIN 35-1827247 LIGONIER, IN

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Revenue 2025
$5,675,277
Expenses 2025
$3,795,052

Program services were 66.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T31Z
Classification
1000
Street
103 W 3RD ST

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).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN NOBLE COUNTY BY SERVING AS A CATALYST FOR POSITIVE CHANGE, ENABLING DONORS TO CARRY OUT CHARITABLE INTENT, AND MAKING GRANTS.

  • GRANTS PAID TO OUTSIDE ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH A GRANT PROCESS. GRANTS ARE MADE PRIMARILY TO 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATIONS, SCHOOLS, AND OTHER GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS. THEY ARE MADE FOR ITEMS SUCH AS, BUT NOT LIMITED TO: FOOD PANTRIES; HOMELESS SHELTERS; SCHOOL PROGRAMS; PHYSICAL FITNESS PROGRAMS; VICTIM AID; READING PROGRAMS; ANIMAL SHELTERS; DISASTER RELIEF; AND MUCH MORE. THERE WERE APPROXIMATELY 100 GRANTS MADE. EVALUATIONS OF GRANTS ARE MADE PRIOR TO CLOSURE TO ASCERTAIN THAT ALL GOALS AND OBJECTIVES ARE MET ACCORDING TO GRANT PROPOSALS OR FUND AGREEMENTS. GRANT RECIPIENTS ARE MAINLY NOBLE COUNTY RECIPIENTS, OR THEIR PROJECT IS TO BENEFIT NOBLE COUNTY RESIDENTS. THE GRANTS ALSO INCLUDE DONOR ADVISED AND DESIGNATED GRANTS. DONOR ADVISED GRANTS MUST BE AWARDED TO 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATIONS OR CHARITABLE PROJECTS.

    Expenses $2,194,857 · Grants $1,982,436 · Revenue $650,535

  • GRANTS PAID TO OR ON BEHALF OF INDIVIDUALS. THE MAJORITY OF THIS IS SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS, WHICH ARE A LARGE PART OF THE FOUNDATION'S FUNDS HELD, AND OF THEIR 2025 PROGRAMS. NCCF PAID APPROXIMATELY 114 GRANTS HELPING 68 INDIVIDUALS FURTHER THEIR EDUCATION. THIS IS MOSTLY MADE UP OF HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS AND ADULTS. THREE OF THESE SCHOLARSHIPS WERE CHOSEN BY THE PULSE GROUP LISTED IN 4C.

    Expenses $318,277 · Grants $279,926 · Revenue $117,448

  • PULSE (PHILANTHROPISTS UTILIZING LIFELONG SERVICES AND EDUCATION) CONSISTS OF 22 MEMBERS, 8TH THROUGH 12TH GRADE, FROM THE THREE SCHOOL CORPORATIONS IN NOBLE COUNTY. THEY CONDUCT MONTHLY SERVICE PROJECTS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY. THEY PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR NON-PROFITS TO APPLY FOR GRANTS TWICE PER YEAR, NOT TO EXCEED 1,000 EACH. THEY CONDUCT FUNDRAISING EVENTS TO HELP WITH THE COST OF THIS PROGRAM AND EACH MEMBER CONTRIBUTES TO THEIR OWN ENDOWMENT. THEY CONDUCT EDUCATION/TRAINING TO NOBLE COUNTY'S YOUNG PHILANTHROPISTS; BY TEACHING PHILANTHROPY TO ELEMENTARY GRADES ANNUALLY. THEY ORGANIZE AND PAY FOR A SENIOR CITIZEN'S PROM. THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROM IS TO BRIDGE GENERATIONAL GAPS. THERE WERE APPROXIMATELY 100 ATTENDEES.

    Expenses $2,496 · Grants $2,000 · Revenue $1,520

  • N/A

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Gary Gatman

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Denise Lemmon

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Lori Jansen

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 0.5 related
  • Bryan Shearer

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 0.5 related
  • Sandy Saggars

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 0.5 related
  • Les Nivens

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 0.5 related
  • Trey Forbes

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 0.5 related
  • April Weimer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 0.5 related
  • Beverly Fitzpatrick

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 0.5 related
  • Clint Phares

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 0.5 related
  • Samuel J Tipton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 0.5 related
  • Chad Wilson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 0.5 related
  • Tyler Moser

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 0.5 related
  • Shelley Mawhorter

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 0.5 related
  • Kenny Kill

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 0.5 related
  • Jared Knipper

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 0.5 related
  • Kirsten Owen

    DIRECTOR (PU

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 0.5 related
  • Margarita White

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $89,163
    From this org
    $89,163
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $5,675,277
    Expenses
    $3,795,052
    Contributions
    $2,275,437
    Grants paid
    $2,264,362
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,592,932
    Expenses
    $3,385,670
    Contributions
    $1,284,126
    Grants paid
    $2,298,437
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,962,093
    Expenses
    $2,587,676
    Contributions
    $1,381,753
    Grants paid
    $1,551,183

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
    $5,285,505
    Expenses
    $1,967,213
    Assets (EOY)
    $39,519,499
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,771,566
    Expenses
    $1,977,456
    Assets (EOY)
    $35,435,999
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,534,274
    Expenses
    $3,007,088
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,157,185
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,030,305
    Expenses
    $1,753,017
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,701,331
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,665,661
    Expenses
    $1,629,047
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,072,008
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,336,317
    Expenses
    $1,730,078
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,830,544
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,601,243
    Expenses
    $1,617,448
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,423,247
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,852,232
    Expenses
    $1,725,440
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,425,425
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,673,702
    Expenses
    $1,368,329
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,362,197
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,097,724
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,150,190

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 2025 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

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.