Indiana · Private foundation
Gaither Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 74
- Grants FY2025
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 61
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Gaither Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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 | 62 | $1.7M | 24% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $966k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $340k | 34% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $273k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $377k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $258k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 61 | $354k | 28% |
| FY2018 | 61 | $321k | 41% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson University Inc | $1,482,890 | 9 | 1% |
| Gospel Music Trust Fund | $1,000,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Liberty Christian School Inc | $310,125 | 9 | 5% |
| Indiana Historical Society | $141,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana Inc | $105,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Wheeler Mission Ministries Inc | $100,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Indiana Wesleyan University | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Park Place Church of God Inc | $65,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Leadership Academy of Madison County Inc | $64,350 | 6 | 19% |
| Alexandria Community Center Inc | $35,900 | 9 | 6% |
Show all 67 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 104 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gaither Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Madison County Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Ball Brothers Foundation · Community Hospital of Anderson and Madison County Inc · Heart of Indiana United Way Inc · The Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Hamer D & Phyllis C Shafer Foundation Charitable Trust · Mutualbank Charitable Foundation Inc · George and Frances Ball Foundation · Muncie Endurathon Inc · American Electric Power Foundation
How this is measured
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About Gaither Charitable Foundation Inc
- How much does Gaither Charitable Foundation Inc give?
- Gaither Charitable Foundation Inc reported 74 grants totaling $2,294,049 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 61 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gaither Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), Religion (28%), Arts & Culture (5%).
- Who are Gaither Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Anderson University Inc ($1.5M), Gospel Music Trust Fund ($1.0M), Liberty Christian School Inc ($310k).
- Does Gaither Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gaither Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gaither Charitable Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Madison County Community Foundation Inc, Lilly Endowment Inc, Ball Brothers Foundation.
- Where is Gaither Charitable Foundation Inc based?
- Gaither Charitable Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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