· Public charity
United Way of the Wabash Valley Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $561,123 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $934,539 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $373,416 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $273k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $263k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Vigo County School Corp | $106,792 |
| Terre Haute Police Department | $54,486 |
| Wabash Valley Recovery Center | $51,349 |
| Council on Domestic Abuse | $50,000 |
| Mental Health America in Vigo County | $48,012 |
| Chances for Indiana Youth | $40,884 |
| Terre Haute Children's Museum | $36,562 |
| Next Step Foundation | $27,315 |
| Munchkin Land Daycare & Preschool | $20,099 |
| reTHink Inc | $20,000 |
| Hamilton Center | $19,983 |
| Wabash Valley Community Foundation | $16,586 |
| VIP Kinder College | $15,262 |
| Kiddie Cove | $14,143 |
| Brazil First United Methodist Church | $13,824 |
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 (FY20–24, $182k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 91% 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 +33% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $292k 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
- NSNext Step Foundation Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $670k · revenue +273%
- MHMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF WEST CENTRAL IN5× · 2020–2024 · $467k · revenue +344%
- CACHANCES AND SERVICES FOR YOUTH INC5× · 2020–2024 · $331k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- NSNext Step Foundationone grant, 2020 · $104k
- ITIVY TECH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -2%
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $46k
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 provide food to those in need in West Terre Haute, 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…
Hoosier Families is a non-profit organization that provides Community Based programs for Indiana children and families. Hoosier Families is committed to utilizing evidence-based practices to strengthen, rebuild and reunite the individuals…
Wabash county habitat for humanity, inc. is a non-profit organization working in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to build decent, affordable housing.
To Develop and Provide resources for the purpose of assisting Low-Income Individuals through a variety of programs in Benton, Fountain, Montgomery, Parke, Vermillion, And Warren Counties in Indiana.
Provide resources for low income clients.
Working together, our mission is to enhance the quality of life in our communities, generation through generation to assist older adults, persons with disabilities, and persons that have needs, to access opportunities that will allow them…
Provide services to foster fami
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…
Provide housing for senior citizens of Martin County Indiana
Provide transitional housing an other services for persons released from prison
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child-Adult Resource Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wabash Valley Recovery Center. 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 39 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 130 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 Next Step Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF WEST CENTRAL IN ↗
- Who funds CHANCES AND SERVICES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Reach Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Family Service Association of the Wabash Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Terre Haute Inc ↗
- Who funds TERRE HAUTE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds TERRE HAUTE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Kid Kare Project Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WABASH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds WABASH VALLEY RECOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PARKE COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MANNA FROM SEVEN INC ↗
- Who funds Marshall Area Youth Network ↗
- Who funds reTHink Inc ↗
- Who funds PACE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY 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: Wabash Valley Community Foundation Inc · Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Frederick R Benson Trust · Duke Energy Foundation · Max L Gibson & Jacqueline Gibson Foundation · Indiana Chemical Trust Tr Ua-Fdt 320006018 · Gregory L Gibson Charitable Foundation Inc · The Hux Family Charitable Trust · Oscar Baur Foundation · Rose Ladies Aid Society · Early Learning Indiana Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc
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 United Way of the Wabash Valley Inc 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.