· Private foundation
Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
- Who funds Wabash Valley Health Center Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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