How much did CLARA FAIRBANKS FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of CLARA FAIRBANKS FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

medicaleducationalearn learnterre haute

2019

spacevigoterre haute

2020

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2021

wabash valleyequipment

2022

purchaseupdatecrewwabash valleyvigo

2023

wabash valleyyouthterre hauteearn learn

2024

building improvementsceocomputervigo

2025

opertationscomputervigo

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k9 grants · $41k
$10k–50k6 grants · $79k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

TERRE HAUTE CATHOLIC CHAR$16,700
TERRE HAUTE CHILDRENS MUSEUM$15,000
VIGO COUNTY EDUCATION$15,000
VIGO COUNTY YMCA$12,500
NEXT STEP FOUNDATION$10,000
ST JOSEPH UNIV PARISH CODA$10,000
PROVIDENCE FOOD PANTRY$7,500
MAPLE CENTER - INTEGRATIVE HEALTH$5,000
RETHINK INC$5,000
CHANCES AND SERVICES FOR$5,000
WESTERN INDIANA COMMUNITY$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

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$713k · 24 repeat orgs$280k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$713k

$219k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+19%

Still filing today

50%

42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionEnvironmentArts & CultureOther

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

CO
COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC ABUSE INC
5× · 2017–2023 · $59k · revenue +4%
TH
TERRE HAUTE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB
3× · 2021–2023 · $53k · revenue +25%
NS
NEXT STEP FOUNDATION
4× · 2019–2025 · $45k · revenue +554%

Funded once

IT
IVY TECH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +60%
HB
HAPPINESS BAG INC
one grant, 2023 · $23k
MO
MEALS ON WHEELSgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +76%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Family Service Association of the

Family Service Association provides counseling services to various clientele. Through various programs, clients are aided in family life and emotional situations.

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Catholic Charities Terre Haute Inc

To serve the poor, the homeless, the elderly, the neglected children and the needy.

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Arc of Vigo County Inc

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…

Human Services

Meals on Wheels of Evansville Inc

Food & Nutrition

Terre Haute Area Chamber of Commerce Inc

The mission of the Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce is to preserve, protect, and promote a business friendly environment free of obstacles to growth and development.

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Hoosier Families Inc

Hoosier Families Inc. is dedicated to safeguarding the well-being of children and families. Through our comprehensive programs and services, we actively work to prevent child abuse and neglect, offering support and resources to families in…

Human Services

Vanderburgh County Casa Inc

Civil Rights

Indiana Co Child Day Care Program Inc

Teaming with families to provide high quality child care and education services for all children.

Human Services

Terre Haute Catholic Charities Foodbank Inc

The mission of the 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…

Food & Nutrition

Providence Food Pantry of West Terre

To provide food to those in need in West Terre Haute, Indiana

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United Way of the Wabash Valley Inc

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.

Philanthropy

Launch Terre Haute Inc

To provide collaborative workspace open to freelance workers, independent workers, independent contractors, entrepreneurs, and start up companies.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shine Foster Family 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 40 years old; the field is 29. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/29

the rest of the field

44/593

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.

05the grantee network

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/29

Grantees still filing

23/29

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$676,293Human Services$104,991Youth Development$63,394Health$55,100Arts & Culture$38,500Food & Nutrition$30,000Education$25,000

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.

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.

Wabash Valley Community Foundation IncIN39.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wabash Valley Community Foundation Inc · Frederick R Benson Trust · Indiana Chemical Trust Tr Ua-Fdt 320006018 · Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of the Wabash Valley Inc · Max L Gibson & Jacqueline Gibson · Gregory L Gibson Charitable Foundation · Rose Ladies Aid Society · The Weston Wabash Foundation · The George F and Marion D Johnson · The Hux Family Charitable Trust · Hollie & Anna Oakley Foundation Inc

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 organisation 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MANNA FROM SEVEN INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 834013552 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MANNA FROM SEVEN INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CLARA FAIRBANKS FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

CLARA FAIRBANKS FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph