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Gibson Foundation
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IU FOUNDATION | $13,200 |
| MARSHALL COUNTY COMMUNITY FDN | $10,000 |
| ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURC | $10,000 |
| MARIAN UNIVERSITY-ANCILLA COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| MARSHALL COUNTY COMMUNITY FDN | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| CULTIVATE FOOD RESCUE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARS | $5,000 |
| WILD ROSE MOON | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO | $2,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF MARSHALL COUNTY | $2,500 |
| MARSHALL COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMEN | $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 (FY20–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +35% since the first grant, against -22% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
Indiana University Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $91k · revenue +162%- CCCULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC6× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +509%
- WRWILD ROSE MOON INC6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +153%
Funded once
- ACANCILLA COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $10k
- LCLogan Community Resources Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +47%
- EPENCORE PERFORMING ARTSone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
To help make the marshall area an even better place to live, work, and raise a family by attracting endowed funds from a wide range of donors, serving as a conduit for special projects, and distributing grants in support of innovative…
Our mission is to improve lives by mobilizing people to care for one another in a voluntary, community-wide effort. this shall be done through expanding volunteerism, fundraising programs, as well as planning, supporting, providing, and…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The mission of marion community foundation is to continually improve the marion area community through philanthropy, leadership, and civic engagement.
Surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
To provide scholarships and aid to the marshalltown community school district.
To provide a mechanism to encourage charitable giving, to facilitate the distribution of gifts to member agencies that will enhance the quality of life for all marshall county residents.
To promote business in marshall and the surrounding communitites and to promote a quality of life to support strong business.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide support to Marshall University by receiving, investing and administering private resources.
To be a leader and partner for business and quality of life initiatives in teh marshalltown area.
The organization's primary mission is to provide child care and a child and adult care food program for the city of marshfield and the surrounding communities.
To promote and enhance academic programs offered by the marshall public school district through monetary support of academic programs and scholarships for students in the district.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Marshall County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Adams Street Ministries 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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 52 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 MARSHALL COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC ↗
- Who funds WILD ROSE MOON INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MARSHALL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Marshall County Neighborhood Council ↗
- Who funds Culver Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds Logan Community Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds Marshall County Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Sigma Chi Foundation ↗
- Who funds VASSILIADIS ELEMENTARY PTO ↗
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: Marshall County Community Foundation Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Gibson Foundation 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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