· Private foundation
Max L Gibson & Jacqueline Gibson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of Max L Gibson & Jacqueline Gibson Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k54 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $195k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Wabash Valley Family Sports Center | $45,000 |
| Cross Lane Community Church | $25,000 |
| Hospice of the Wabash Valley | $20,000 |
| Rose Hulman Institute of Technology | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Vigo County Historical Society | $15,000 |
| Eastside Christian Academy | $10,000 |
| Indiana Historical Society | $10,000 |
| St Mary of the Woods College | $10,000 |
| Next Step Foundation | $10,000 |
| Wabash Valley Community Foundation | $10,000 |
| Phoenix House of Terre Haute | $5,000 |
| Terre Haute North Patriot Booster Club | $5,000 |
| Ivy Tech Community College | $5,000 |
| The Maple Center | $5,000 |
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, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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 +38% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
101 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 4 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- WVWabash Valley Family Sports Center Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +62%
- VCVigo County Education Foundation Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $71k · revenue +12%
- RIRose-Hulman Institute of Technology5× · 2021–2025 · $59k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- WTWest Terre Haute Canine Fundone grant, 2021 · $9k
- BPBrazil Police Canine Fundone grant, 2021 · $8k
- VCVigo County Sheriffs Officeone grant, 2023 · $8k
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 enrich the lives of Tippecanoe County residents and visitors by collecting preserving researching and sharing our unique and diverse history
Residential Faith-based drug and alcohol recovery.
By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.
The mission of Terre Haute Catholic Charities Foodbank is to feed the hungry in Clay, Greene, Knox, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion and Vigo counties through a network of emergency food distribution member agencies and engage our community in…
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.
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.
Icv ensures indiana's elected officials are accountable to hoosiers who all deserve clean energy, clean water and clean air.
Advances the common good in the Wabash Valley by partnering with volunteers, companies and organizations to fund quality programs and initiatives in three core impact areas: Education, Health and Community Basics.
To provide and to promote humane treatment toward animals
To provide recreational activities, programs, and supervision for boys and girls
To provide temporary housing and other support services to homeless families in the greater Lafayette area of Tippecanoe County, Indiana
Family Service Association provides counseling services to various clientele. Through various programs, clients are aided in family life and emotional situations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wabash Valley Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 136 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 Wabash Valley Family Sports Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Vigo County Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WABASH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Vigo County Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MAPLE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Eastside Christian Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds The Ark Christian Ministries ↗
- Who funds CLAY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana Sheriffs' Youth Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds HAPPINESS BAG PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds SUGAR CREEK FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Terre Haute Symphony Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Next Step Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX HOUSE OF TERRE HAUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Wabash Valley Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LIGHT HOUSE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT NEVER BROKEN INC ↗
- Who funds Wabash Valley Breast Cancer Survivors Inc ↗
- Who funds Terre Haute North Patriot Booster Club ↗
- Who funds MEROM CAMP & RETREAT CENTER INC ↗
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: Gregory L Gibson Charitable Foundation Inc · Wabash Valley Community Foundation Inc · Frederick R Benson Trust · Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · United Way of the Wabash Valley Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Oscar Baur Foundation · The George F and Marion D Johnson Charitable Trust · Larry Paul Fleschner Charitable Foundation · Rose Ladies Aid Society · The Weston Wabash 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 Max L Gibson & Jacqueline 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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