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The Weston Wabash Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$369k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$490kEducation$396kRecreation & Sports$306kArts & Culture$296kHealth$208kYouth Development$148kAnimals$120kFood & Nutrition$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $213k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $108k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Grand Rapids Area Community Foundation$57,500
Wabash Valley Community Foundation$50,000
Rose Hulman Institute of Technology$30,000
ISU Foundation$27,500
Union Health Foundation Inc$25,000
Vigo County Youth Soccer Association$20,000
Vigo County Historical Society$20,000
Terre Haute Childrens Museum$20,000
University of Dayton$15,000
United Way of the Wabash Valley$15,000
Dog It Dig It Rescue Inc$10,000
Terre Haute Boys & Girls Club$10,000
Humane Society of Terre Haute$10,000
Hospice of the Wabash Valley$10,000
Ivy Tech State College Foundation$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $35k) 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%Happiness Bag: $5k → 19%Camp Navigate Inc: $5k → 19%Camp Navigate Inc: $5k → 19%Camp Navigate: $5k → 19%Camp Navigate Inc: $5k → 19%Camp Navigate: $5k → 19%Camp Navigate Inc: $5k → 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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of The Weston Wabash Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Weston Wabash Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 29 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
3

Total granted

$1.7M
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+72%

Still filing today

52%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • RI
    Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    6× · 2020–2025 · $145k · revenue +63%
  • TH
    TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $130k · revenue +53%
  • UW
    United Way of the Wabash Valley Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • VP
    Valley Professionals Community Health Center West Vigo
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • HB
    HAPPINESS BAG PLAYERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +72%
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
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
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 West Hospital Inc

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

Health
4
Arc of Vigo County Inc

The Arc of Vigo County is committed to providing advocacy, parent support and training, respite services for families who have a family member at home with a developmental disability, a supported employment service for persons with…

Human Services
5
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

—
6
Dubuque County Historical Society

To inspire stewardship by creating educational experiences where history and rivers come alive.

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
Zionsville Education Foundation Inc

The Zionsville Education Foundation (ZEF)is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing the educational experiences of Zionsville students by providing grants for innovative and creative programs. The mission of ZEF is to serve its…

Education
9
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

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

Health
10
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
11
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit
12
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Union Hospital Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Rea Park Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

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 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ISU Foundation: $165,000 · OtherISU FoundationRose-Hulman Institute of Technology: $145,000 · OtherRose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyVigo County Historical Society Inc: $129,000 · OtherVigo County Historical Society IncVigo County Youth Soccer Association: $75,000 · OtherVigo County Youth Soccer AssociationTerre Haute Catholic Charities: $50,000 · OtherHospice of the Wabash Valley: $47,500 · OtherTerre Haute Boys & Girls Club: $65,000 · OtherTerre Haute Boys & Girls ClubFriends of Rea Park Inc: $50,000 · Other+18 more: $291,000 · Other+18 moreGRAND RAPIDS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $258,500 · Community ImprovementGRAND RAPIDS A…United Way of the Wabash Valley Inc: $125,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way o…WABASH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $101,000 · PhilanthropyWABASH VALLE…TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $130,000 · Arts & CultureSheldon Swope Art Museum Inc: $30,000 · Arts & CultureUNION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $145,000 · HealthUniversity of Dayton: $90,000 · EducationSAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS COLLEGE: $45,000 · EducationTERRE HAUTE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $105,000 · Animals
Other$1,017,500Community Improvement$258,500Philanthropy$226,000Arts & Culture$160,000Health$145,000Education$135,000Animals$105,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGRAND RAPIDS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $258,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetUNION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $145,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetRose-Hulman Institute of Technology: $145,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $130,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetVigo County Historical Society Inc: $129,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetUnited Way of the Wabash Valley Inc: $125,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetTERRE HAUTE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $105,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetWABASH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $101,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Dayton: $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTerre Haute Boys & Girls Club: $65,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetFriends of Rea Park Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetSAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS COLLEGE: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $33,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSheldon Swope Art Museum Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCamp Navigate Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetCHANCES AND SERVICES FOR YOUTH INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVigo County Education Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHAPPINESS BAG PLAYERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 GRAND RAPIDS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Vigo County Historical Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds United Way of the Wabash Valley Inc ↗
  • Who funds TERRE HAUTE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds WABASH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Dayton ↗
  • Who funds Terre Haute Boys & Girls Club ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Rea Park Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc ↗
  • Who funds Camp Navigate Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHANCES AND SERVICES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds Vigo County Education Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds HAPPINESS BAG PLAYERS 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.

Indiana Chemical Trust Tr Ua-Fdt 320006018IN30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Indiana Chemical Trust Tr Ua-Fdt 320006018 · Hulman & Company Foundation Inc · Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Gregory L Gibson Charitable Foundation Inc · Frederick R Benson Trust · Duke Energy Foundation · Max L Gibson & Jacqueline Gibson Foundation · Wabash Valley Community Foundation Inc · Hollie & Anna Oakley Foundation Inc · The Hux Family Charitable Trust · Rose Ladies Aid Society · 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 The Weston Wabash Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Weston Wabash Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 35 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.

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