· Private foundation
Gibson Foundation
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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IU FOUNDATION | $13,200 |
| ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURC | $10,000 |
| MARIAN UNIVERSITY-ANCILLA COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| MARSHALL COUNTY COMMUNITY FDN | $10,000 |
| MARSHALL COUNTY COMMUNITY FDN | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| CULTIVATE FOOD RESCUE | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| WILD ROSE MOON | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF MARSHALL COUNTY | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| MARSHALL COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMEN | $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 (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 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 +35% since the first grant, against -22% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 52 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 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 Neighborhood Council ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Culver Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Logan Community Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds Marshall County Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Sigma Chi Foundation ↗
- Who funds VASSILIADIS ELEMENTARY PTO ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gibson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gibson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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