Skip to content
Gregory L Gibson Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Gregory L Gibson Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$814k
Granted FY2025still arriving
65
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$210k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.2MRecreation & Sports$944kHealth$292kArts & Culture$240kPhilanthropy$94kHuman Services$72kReligion$72kPublic Safety & Disaster$46kOther$0
02FY2025 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k51 grants · $144k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $161k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $510k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Wabash Valley Family Sports Center$210,000
Indiana State University Athletics$100,000
Rose-Hulman Institute of Tech$100,000
St Mary of the Woods College$50,000
Ivy Tech Foundation$50,000
Vigo County Historical Society$35,000
Hospice of the Wabash Valley$25,500
Indiana Historical Society$20,000
TH North Vigo High School$17,500
Individual grant recipient$17,500
Next Step Foundation$15,000
Wabash Valley Community Foundation$10,000
Vigo County Education Foundation$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Happiness Bag Inc$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Helping Hands: $1k → 19%The Helping Hand: $1k → 19%The Helping Hand: $1k → 19%The Helping Hand: $500 → 19%Happiness Bag Inc: $8k → 19%Happiness Bag Inc: $5k → 19%Happiness Bag Inc: $5k → 19%Happiness Bag Inc: $5k → 19%Light House Mission: $3k → 19%Light House Mission: $3k → 19%Light House Mission: $3k → 19%Light House Mission: $1k → 19%Light House Mission: $1k → 19%Light House Mission: $1k → 19%Wabash Valley Athletic Association: $3k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 79 repeat orgs$197k to everyone else

79 repeat relationships: 59 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
32

Total granted

$3.0M
$161k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+38%

Still filing today

41%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WV
    Wabash Valley Family Sports Center Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $565k · revenue +62% · 37% of their budget
  • RI
    Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    6× · 2020–2025 · $375k · revenue +63%
  • SM
    SAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $325k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • SM
    St Mark United Church of Christ
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • VH
    VNA Hospice of the Wabash Valley
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • VC
    Vigo County History Center
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
2
Terre Haute Area Chamber of Commerce Inc

The mission of the Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce is to preserve, protect, and promote a business friendly envrionment free of obstacles to growth and development.

—
3
Indiana University Health White Memorial Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
4
Wabash River Development & Beautification Inc

To improve and develop areas along the Wabash River to improve tourism, recreation, economic development, and wildlife refuges.

Environment
5
Terre Haute Boys & Girls Club

To provide recreational activities, programs, and supervision for boys and girls

Youth Development
6
Healthlinc Incorporated

Coordinate health care information by providing a community-wide clinical data and information exchange to the health care community.

—
7
Indiana Conservation Voters

Icv ensures indiana's elected officials are accountable to hoosiers who all deserve clean energy, clean water and clean air.

—
8
Art Spaces - Wabash Valley Outdoor Sculpture

Changing the landscape of the city through public art and design

Arts & Culture
9
Wabash Valley Habitat for Humanity

To construct, rehabilitate, sell and finance (0% interest) homes to families in the Wabash Valley, who would otherwise not be able to obtain home loans through conventional means.

Housing & Shelter
10
Tippecanoe County Historical Association

To enrich the lives of Tippecanoe County residents and visitors by collecting preserving researching and sharing our unique and diverse history

Arts & Culture
11
Indiana University Health Arnett Foundation Inc

As a public charity and supporting organization, the mission of indiana university health arnett foundation, inc. ("iu health arnett foundation") is to benefit, perform and carry out the charitable, educational, scientific and other exempt…

—
12
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ivy Tech Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Next Step Foundation Inc. 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

44 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. 44 of the 117 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/44
Grantees still filing
35/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology: $375,000 · OtherRose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyIndiana State University Athletics: $197,500 · OtherIndiana State University AthleticsHospice of the Wabash Valley: $135,500 · OtherHospice of the Wabash ValleyVigo County Education Foundation Inc: $117,500 · OtherVigo County Education Foundation IncIndiana State University: $100,000 · OtherIndiana State UniversityVigo County Historical Society Inc: $65,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $62,500 · Other+85 more: $762,000 · Other+85 moreWabash Valley Family Sports Center Inc: $564,594 · Recreation & SportsWabash Valley Family S…Wabash Valley Girls Softball League Inc: $73,500 · Recreation & SportsWabash Valley Girls So…+1 more: $500 · Recreation & SportsSAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS COLLEGE: $325,000 · EducationSAINT MARY-OF-THE…IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $160,000 · EducationIVY TECH FOUNDATI…+3 more: $21,000 · EducationHAMILTON CENTER INC: $30,000 · HealthUNION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $23,500 · HealthWabash Valley Health Center Inc: $22,500 · HealthNext Step Foundation Inc: $15,000 · HealthWabash Valley Breast Cancer Survivors Inc: $7,500 · HealthTeam of Mercy Inc: $7,000 · Health+2 more: $4,500 · HealthUnited Way of the Wabash Valley Inc: $65,000 · PhilanthropyWABASH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 · PhilanthropyTERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSheldon Swope Art Museum Inc: $19,000 · Arts & CultureHAPPINESS BAG PLAYERS INC: $22,500 · Human ServicesLIGHT HOUSE MISSION INC: $10,500 · Human ServicesThe Helping Hand Inc: $3,500 · Human ServicesWabash Valley Athletic Association Inc: $2,500 · Human Services
Other$1,815,000Recreation & Sports$638,594Education$506,000Health$110,000Philanthropy$92,000Arts & Culture$69,000Human Services$39,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWabash Valley Family Sports Center Inc: $564,594 over 6y, 37% of budgetRose-Hulman Institute of Technology: $375,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS COLLEGE: $325,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $160,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetVigo County Education Foundation Inc: $117,500 over 6y, 15% of budgetWabash Valley Girls Softball League Inc: $73,500 over 6y, 24% of budgetUnited Way of the Wabash Valley Inc: $65,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetVigo County Historical Society Inc: $65,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetTERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetHAMILTON CENTER INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWABASH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $23,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWabash Valley Health Center Inc: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHAPPINESS BAG PLAYERS INC: $22,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSheldon Swope Art Museum Inc: $19,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGibault Inc: $16,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNext Step Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCatholic Charities Terre Haute Inc: $15,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCLAY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $12,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetLIGHT HOUSE MISSION INC: $10,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetThe Ark Christian Ministries: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCANDLES: $9,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWabash Valley Breast Cancer Survivors Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetTeam of Mercy Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTERRE HAUTE WOMEN'S CLUB INC: $6,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetWABASH VALLEY GOODWILL INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT NEVER BROKEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetThe Hendricks County Child Advocacy Center Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIndependent Colleges of Indiana Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTREES Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetThe Helping Hand Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWabash Valley Athletic Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF WEST CENTRAL IN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOuabache Land Conservancy Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION FORCE INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIndiana State University Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Wabash Valley Family Sports Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds SAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Vigo County Education Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Wabash Valley Girls Softball League Inc ↗
  • Who funds United Way of the Wabash Valley Inc ↗
  • Who funds Vigo County Historical Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WABASH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Wabash Valley Health Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds HAPPINESS BAG PLAYERS INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc ↗
  • Who funds Gibault Inc ↗
  • Who funds Next Step Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Charities Terre Haute 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.

Max L Gibson & Jacque…Wabash Valley Communi…Frederick R Benson Tr…Indiana Chemical Trus…Hulman & Company Foun…The George F and Mari…Clara Fairbanks Found…Duke Energy FoundationLilly Endowment IncThe Weston Wabash Fou…Hollie & Anna Oakley …United Way of the Wab…
Max L Gibson & Jacqueline Gibson FoundationIN66.4× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Max L Gibson & Jacqueline Gibson Foundation · Wabash Valley Community Foundation Inc · Frederick R Benson Trust · Indiana Chemical Trust Tr Ua-Fdt 320006018 · Hulman & Company Foundation Inc · The George F and Marion D Johnson Charitable Trust · Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Weston Wabash Foundation · Hollie & Anna Oakley Foundation Inc · United Way of the Wabash Valley Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gregory L Gibson Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gregory L Gibson Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 117 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Gregory L Gibson’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home