· Private foundation
Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $79k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TERRE HAUTE CATHOLIC CHAR | $16,700 |
| TERRE HAUTE CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| NEXT STEP FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST JOSEPH UNIV PARISH CODA | $10,000 |
| PROVIDENCE FOOD PANTRY | $7,500 |
| RETHINK INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MAPLE CENTER - INTEGRATIVE HEALTH | $5,000 |
| CHANCES AND SERVICES FOR | $5,000 |
| VIGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $4,800 |
| CROSSROADS CARE CLINIC - EARN WHILE | $4,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $2,500 |
| TERRE HAUTE WOMENS CLUB | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- NSNext Step Foundation Inc5× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +551%
- COCOUNCIL ON DOMESTIC ABUSE INC5× · 2017–2023 · $59k · revenue +46%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WABASH VALLEY INC6× · 2017–2023 · $50k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- ITIVY TECH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +208%
- HBHAPPINESS BAG PLAYERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $23k · revenue +26%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS INCone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -23%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Hoosier Families is a non-profit organization that provides Community Based programs for Indiana children and families. Hoosier Families is committed to utilizing evidence-based practices to strengthen, rebuild and reunite the individuals…
Family Service Association provides counseling services to various clientele. Through various programs, clients are aided in family life and emotional situations.
The Arc of Vigo County is committed to providing advocacy, parent support and training, respite services for families who have a family member at home with a developmental disability, a supported employment service for persons with…
Catholic Charities Terre Haute is a comprehensive, direct services agency whose purpose is to serve the poor, the homeless, the elderly, the neglected children and the needy.
The mission of the Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce is to preserve, protect, and promote a business friendly envrionment free of obstacles to growth and development.
The mission of Terre Haute Catholic Charities Foodbank is to feed the hungry in Clay, Greene, Knox, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion and Vigo counties through a network of emergency food distribution member agencies and engage our community in…
Advances the common good in the Wabash Valley by partnering with volunteers, companies and organizations to fund quality programs and initiatives in three core impact areas: Education, Health and Community Basics.
By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.
To provide temporary housing and other support services to homeless families in the greater Lafayette area of Tippecanoe County, Indiana
Voluntary Action Center, which serves Bureau, Dekalb, Kendall, Lasalle and Putnam counties provides high quality services that address the basic transportation and nutrition needs of its communities.
To provide food to those in need in West Terre Haute, Indiana
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Autism Resources Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 28. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Next Step Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Terre Haute Boys & Girls Club ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WABASH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Vigo County Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds 14th & Chestnut Community Center ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Vigo County Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds HAPPINESS BAG PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHANCES AND SERVICES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF HOWARD COUNTY ↗
- Who funds reTHink Inc ↗
- Who funds MANNA FROM SEVEN INC ↗
- Who funds George Pocock Rowing Foundation ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds TERRE HAUTE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds TERRE HAUTE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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