· Community foundation
Wabash Valley Community Foundation Inc
The mission of the foundation is to engage people, build resources, and enrich lives, and its vision is for a healthy, educated and thriving community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 88 grants below total $2,963,262 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,559,781 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,596,519 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $171k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $892k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $520k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF THE WABASH VALLEY | $520,357 |
| SHELDON SWOPE ART MUSEUM | $241,276 |
| TERRE HAUTE PARKS & RECREATION DEPARTMENT | $170,471 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE WABASH VALLEY | $100,721 |
| COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC ABUSE INC | $100,408 |
| LUGAR CENTER - DIV OF UNION HEALTH UNION HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| REACH SERVICES INC | $81,705 |
| VIGO COUNTY PARKS & RECREATION DEPARTMENT | $74,118 |
| FOREST PARK GOLF COURSE CITY OF BRAZIL | $74,000 |
| CITY OF TERRE HAUTE | $73,752 |
| CLAY COUNTY HUMANE SHELTER | $67,857 |
| TERRE HAUTE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $65,600 |
| TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $60,496 |
| CHANCES AND SERVICES FOR YOUTH INC | $58,546 |
| WABASH VALLEY RECOVERY CENTER | $57,280 |
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, $504k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +34% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
107 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 21 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $363k 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
- SSSheldon Swope Art Museum Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $685k · revenue +137%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WABASH VALLEY INC4× · 2020–2025 · $646k · revenue +87%
- UWUnited Way of the Wabash Valley Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $533k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- CFCLARA FAIRBANKS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -87% · 32% of their budget
- RCREIN CENTER COALITION INCone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -96%
- WVWABASH VALLEY GOODWILL INCone grant, 2024 · $53k · revenue 0%
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.
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 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.
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…
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.
To provide food to those in need in West Terre Haute, Indiana
Provide fire protection for residents of clay township in bartholomew county indiana
Promote development in Perry County, Indiana
To provide and to promote humane treatment toward animals
By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.
To enrich the lives of Tippecanoe County residents and visitors by collecting preserving researching and sharing our unique and diverse history
Coordinate health care information by providing a community-wide clinical data and information exchange to the health care community.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western Indiana Community Foundation 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 31 years old; the field is 26. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
112 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. 112 of the 204 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WABASH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of the Wabash Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds CHANCES AND SERVICES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CLAY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Terre Haute Symphony Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Vigo County Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Reach Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Terre Haute Inc ↗
- Who funds WABASH VALLEY RECOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLARA FAIRBANKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TERRE HAUTE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Vigo County Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of Rea Park Inc ↗
- Who funds WABASH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Terre Haute Catholic Charities Foodbank Inc ↗
- Who funds Indiana State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds VALLEY PROFESSIONALS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Next Step Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Wabash Valley Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds REIN CENTER COALITION 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: United Way of the Wabash Valley Inc · Frederick R Benson Trust · Gregory L Gibson Charitable Foundation Inc · Max L Gibson & Jacqueline Gibson Foundation · Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Indiana Chemical Trust Tr Ua-Fdt 320006018 · The Hux Family Charitable Trust · Lilly Endowment Inc · Rose Ladies Aid Society · Hollie & Anna Oakley Foundation Inc · The George F and Marion D Johnson Charitable Trust · Duke Energy 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 Wabash Valley Community Foundation 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.