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· Private foundation
GIBSON FOUNDATION
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$93k
Granted FY2024
41
Grants
5
Communities
$13k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 92% of GIBSON FOUNDATION’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.
02FY2024 · 41 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k38 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
- IU FOUNDATION$13,200
- MARSHALL COUNTY COMMUNITY FDN$10,000
- ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURC$10,000
- ST ELIZABETH'S EPISCOPAL$7,500
- BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARS$5,000
- CULTIVATE FOOD RESCUE$5,000
- MARIAN UNIVERSITY-ANCILLA COLLEGE$5,000
- THE REES$5,000
- WILD ROSE MOON$3,000
- UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO$2,500
- UNITED WAY OF MARSHALL COUNTY$2,500
- POTAWATOMI WILDLIFE PARK$2,500
- WNIT PUBLIC TELEVISION$2,500
- MARSHALL COUNTY NEIGHBORH$2,000
- MARSHALL COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMEN$2,000
02The need
03
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 (FY20–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 12%. 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.
97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$681k · 43 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else
43 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
43
6
Total granted
$681k
$20k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+29%
+78%
Still filing today
19%
17%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionEnvironmentOther
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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO4× · 2021–2024 · $18k · revenue +61%
- WRWILD ROSE MOON5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +76%
- UWUNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- ACANCILLA COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $10k
- LCLOGAN CENTERone grant, 2020 · $5k
- 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.
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.
1
Indiana Association of United Ways Inc
Indiana united way is the leading voice to advocate, engage, and partner with a strong united way network and key stakeholders to advance human well-being throughout indiana.
Philanthropy
2
Indiana University Foundation
To maximize private philanthropic support for Indiana University
Education
3
Missouri Western State University
Promote private giving and help the university move into the forefront of public higher education.
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4
Colorado State University Foundation
Colorado state university foundation receives, manages and invests gifts in support of csu.
Education
5
United Way of Missoula County
United way of missoula county builds a better community for all, especially in the areas of education, financial stability, and health. we collaborate with diverse community partners to identify important social issues and bring together…
Philanthropy
6
Cedar Valley United Way
Uniting our community to empower individuals and families to thrive.
Philanthropy
7
United Way of Beaumont &
Provide visionary leadership in uniting the community's resources of donors, volunteers, and nonprofit organizations to address community needs in a trustworthy and accountable way
Philanthropy
8
Marshall University Foundation Incorporated
The Marshall University Foundation was chartered on January 3, 1947 as an independent non-profit organization to receive, invest, administer and disburse private resources on behalf of Marshall University.
Education
9
Missouri Southern Foundation
The missouri southern foundation is a not-for-profit corporation, receiving and administering private and corporate contributions for the support of missouri southern state university. the foundation is governed by a board of directors…
Education
10
United Way of Southwestern Indiana Inc
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the community.
Philanthropy
11
University of Colorado Foundation
The university of colorado foundation is the portal for philanthropic giving to the university of colorado and is responsible for receiving, managing, and investing the endowments and other gift funds the foundation holds for the benefit…
Education
12
Mississippi State University Foundation
Mississippi state university foundation, inc. is a non-profit organization that assists mississippi state university in accomplishing its goals and mission by cultivating and soliciting private support and ensuring stewardship for all…
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of St Joseph County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Culver Educational Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$642,600Education$23,000Philanthropy$17,500Arts & Culture$13,000Human Services$4,000Environment$1,000Religion$800
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
1st Source Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-XxxxIN13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: 1st Source Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx
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 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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: WILD ROSE MOON.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +76% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 812786648 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 WILD ROSE MOON, 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
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% 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 Gibson Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Gibson Foundation 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.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines