· Private foundation
Gaither Charitable 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 $10k57 grants · $158k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $211k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $425k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TAYLOR UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| GOSPEL MUSIC TRUST FUND | $500,000 |
| ANDERSON UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| LIBERTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| HEART FOR LEBANON | $100,000 |
| ANDERSON FIRST UNITED METHODIST | $75,000 |
| ALEXANDRIA KIWANIS CLUB | $50,000 |
| WHEELER MISSION | $50,000 |
| LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MADISON CNTY | $33,750 |
| ANDERSON PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| MADISON CNTY COMMUNITY FNDN | $30,000 |
| MADISON CNTY COMMUNITY FNDN | $25,000 |
| CHURCH ST COMMONS | $25,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| MADISON CNTY COMMUNITY FNDN | $17,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +25% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
89 repeat relationships: 47 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 15 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GMGOSPEL MUSIC TRUST FUND3× · 2018–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +29%
- IHINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY5× · 2017–2025 · $141k · revenue +20%
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF PERFORMING ARTSone grant, 2019 · $20k
- PGProject Genesisone grant, 2022 · $10k
- COCITY OF ALEXANDRIAone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Operating a christian high school
To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
How this is measured
52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 173 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 ANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds GOSPEL MUSIC TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds Taylor University ↗
- Who funds Liberty Christian School Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MADISON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Leadership Academy of Madison County Inc ↗
- Who funds Alexandria Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds US DREAM ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ANDERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Alexandria Main Street 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gaither Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gaither Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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