Indiana · Private foundation
Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $120k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $16,700
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $120k | 47% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $115k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $112k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $118k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $121k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $94k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $105k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $104k | 69% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Step Foundation Inc | $60,100 | 5 | 2% |
| Council on Domestic Abuse Inc | $59,248 | 5 | 2% |
| Terre Haute Boys & Girls Club | $53,394 | 3 | 3% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Wabash Valley Inc | $49,835 | 6 | 1% |
| Vigo County Education Foundation Inc | $39,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Terre Haute Children's Museum Inc | $37,000 | 6 | 1% |
| 14th & Chestnut Community Center | $36,243 | 4 | 4% |
| Ivy Tech Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vigo County Historical Society Inc | $23,831 | 4 | 1% |
| Happiness Bag Players Inc | $22,582 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($438k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Wabash Valley Community Foundation Inc · Frederick R Benson Trust · Indiana Chemical Trust Tr Ua-Fdt 320006018 · United Way of the Wabash Valley Inc · Gregory L Gibson Charitable Foundation Inc · Max L Gibson & Jacqueline Gibson Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Weston Wabash Foundation · Hulman & Company Foundation Inc · Rose Ladies Aid Society · Hollie & Anna Oakley Foundation Inc · The George F and Marion D Johnson Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc
- How much does Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc give?
- Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $120,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (26%), Education (19%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Next Step Foundation Inc ($60k), Council on Domestic Abuse Inc ($59k), Terre Haute Boys & Girls Club ($53k).
- Does Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wabash Valley Community Foundation Inc, Frederick R Benson Trust, Indiana Chemical Trust Tr Ua-Fdt 320006018.
- Where is Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc based?
- Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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