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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.

$4.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
88
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$520k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.8MHuman Services$1.5MEducation$1.3MRecreation & Sports$1.0MHealth$966kYouth Development$809kPhilanthropy$765kReligion$616kOther$0
02FY2025 · 88 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 88 grants below total $2,963,262, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,559,781 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,596,519 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $171k
  • $10k–50k46 grants · $892k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+1 grant · $520k
$14,984
Median grant
3
States reached
$128M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OPEN ARMS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $10k → 13%CHILDREN'S BUREAU OF INDIANAPOLIS: $30k → 16%OPEN ARMS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $9k → 13%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS WEST CENTRAL INDIANA: $22k → 16%OPEN ARMS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $9k → 13%OPEN ARMS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $9k → 13%OPEN ARMS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $8k → 13%FIREFLY CHILDREN & FAMILY ALLIANCE: $10k → 16%OPEN ARMS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $8k → 13%VALLEY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $7k → 14%FOUR RIVERS RESOURCE SERVICES: $6k → 13%VALLEY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $5k → 14%OUR FATHER'S ARMS INC: $11k → 13%CRADLES OF CLAY COUNTY: $13k → 13%HAPPINESS BAG INC: $33k → 19%HAPPINESS BAG INC: $11k → 19%COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC ABUSE INC: $100k → 19%COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC ABUSE INC: $55k → 19%COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC ABUSE INC: $49k → 19%PRIDE CENTER OF TERRE HAUTE: $20k → 19%PRIDE CENTER OF TERRE HAUTE: $15k → 19%COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC ABUSE INC: $10k → 19%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS WEST CENTRAL INDIANA: $5k → 19%CAMP NAVIGATE: $17k → 19%CAMP NAVIGATE: $14k → 19%CAMP NAVIGATE: $10k → 19%SHINE FOSTER FAMILY RESOURCES: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
IL
MI
NV
IA
IN
NE
MO
SC
FL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.8M · 107 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

107
74

Total granted

$9.8M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
0%

Still filing today

61%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $363k 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
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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

  • SS
    Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $685k · revenue +137%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WABASH VALLEY INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $646k · revenue +87%
  • UW
    United Way of the Wabash Valley Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $533k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • CF
    CLARA FAIRBANKS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -87% · 32% of their budget
  • RC
    REIN CENTER COALITION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -96%
  • WV
    WABASH VALLEY GOODWILL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $53k · revenue +11%
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
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.

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2
Community Action Program Inc of Western Indiana

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.

Human Services
3
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
4
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
5
Providence Food Pantry of West Terre Haute Indiana Inc

To provide food to those in need in West Terre Haute, Indiana

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6
Clay Township Independent Volunteer

Provide fire protection for residents of clay township in bartholomew county indiana

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7
Indiana County Humane Society

To provide and to promote humane treatment toward animals

Animals
8
Perry County Development Corp

Promote development in Perry County, Indiana

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9
Feeding Indiana's Hungry Inc

By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.

Human Services
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
Healthlinc Incorporated

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

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12
Indiana Conservation Voters

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

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western Indiana Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

112 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/112
Grantees still filing
71/112
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WABASH VALLEY INC: $645,780 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WABASH VALLEY INCCHANCES AND SERVICES FOR YOUTH INC: $474,238 · OtherCHANCES AND SERVICES FOR YOUTH INCCity of Terre Haute Parks Department: $359,382 · OtherVIGO COUNTY PARKS & RECREATION DEPARTMENT: $285,814 · Other+146 more: $5,454,703 · Other+146 moreSheldon Swope Art Museum Inc: $684,735 · Arts & CultureSheldon Swope…TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $262,422 · Arts & CultureTERRE HAUTE C…Terre Haute Symphony Association Inc: $196,966 · Arts & CultureTerre Haute S…Art Spaces - Wabash Valley Outdoor Sculpture: $59,150 · Arts & CultureARTS ILLIANA INC: $47,800 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $65,500 · Arts & CultureUnited Way of the Wabash Valley Inc: $533,475 · PhilanthropyWABASH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $94,150 · PhilanthropyOPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $25,900 · Philanthropy+2 more: $33,532 · PhilanthropyWABASH VALLEY RECOVERY CENTER: $156,359 · HealthUNION HEALTH SYSTEM: $100,000 · HealthVALLEY PROFESSIONALS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $83,891 · HealthNext Step Foundation Inc: $80,746 · HealthWabash Valley Health Center Inc: $76,175 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $32,034 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $32,034 · HealthHAMILTON CENTER INC: $24,229 · Health+4 more: $64,656 · HealthIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $263,594 · EducationIndiana State University Foundation Inc: $85,976 · EducationFranklin College of Indiana: $70,301 · EducationSAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS COLLEGE: $50,056 · EducationGibault Inc: $44,731 · EducationTHE DICTIONARY PROJECT: $19,224 · Education+2 more: $27,670 · EducationCOUNCIL ON DOMESTIC ABUSE INC: $214,772 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC: $53,539 · Human ServicesHAPPINESS BAG PLAYERS INC: $43,930 · Human ServicesCamp Navigate Inc: $41,732 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S BUREAU INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesPride Center of Terre Haute Inc: $35,000 · Human ServicesLIGHT HOUSE MISSION INC: $30,266 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $27,393 · Human Services+4 more: $42,152 · Human ServicesCLAY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $232,699 · AnimalsTERRE HAUTE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $138,995 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF SULLIVAN COUNTY: $45,483 · Animals+2 more: $12,000 · Animals
Other$7,219,917Arts & Culture$1,316,573Philanthropy$687,057Health$650,124Education$561,552Human Services$528,784Animals$429,177

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetSheldon Swope Art Museum Inc: $684,735 over 6y, 12% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WABASH VALLEY INC: $645,780 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetUnited Way of the Wabash Valley Inc: $533,475 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetCHANCES AND SERVICES FOR YOUTH INC: $474,238 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $263,594 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $262,422 over 6y, 8.4% of budgetCLAY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $232,699 over 4y, 17% of budgetCOUNCIL ON DOMESTIC ABUSE INC: $214,772 over 4y, 10% of budgetTerre Haute Symphony Association Inc: $196,966 over 6y, 11% of budgetVigo County Historical Society Inc: $191,833 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetReach Services Inc: $186,837 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetCatholic Charities Terre Haute Inc: $180,943 over 6y, 7.9% of budgetCLARA FAIRBANKS FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetTERRE HAUTE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $138,995 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetRose-Hulman Institute of Technology: $122,939 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVigo County Education Foundation Inc: $113,936 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetFriends of Rea Park Inc: $109,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetWABASH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $94,150 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTerre Haute Catholic Charities Foodbank Inc: $87,400 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetIndiana State University Foundation Inc: $85,976 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY PROFESSIONALS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $83,891 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNext Step Foundation Inc: $80,746 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetWabash Valley Health Center Inc: $76,175 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetREIN CENTER COALITION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTREES Inc: $72,198 over 5y, 18% of budgetMOTHER THEODORE CORPORATION IV: $71,561 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetFranklin College of Indiana: $70,301 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTerre Haute Boys & Girls Club: $65,396 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetThe Hendricks County Child Advocacy Center Inc: $60,193 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCANDLES: $59,950 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetArt Spaces - Wabash Valley Outdoor Sculpture: $59,150 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetHull Cemetery Association Inc: $58,558 over 6y, 67% of budgetOPEN ARMS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC: $53,539 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWABASH VALLEY GOODWILL INC: $53,142 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS COLLEGE: $50,056 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTERRE HAUTE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $47,950 over 3y, 12% of budgetARTS ILLIANA INC: $47,800 over 3y, 15% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SULLIVAN COUNTY: $45,483 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetGibault Inc: $44,731 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHAPPINESS BAG PLAYERS INC: $43,930 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWEST CENTRAL INDIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT INC: $43,770 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFamily Service Association of the Wabash Valley Inc: $43,489 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetCamp Navigate Inc: $41,732 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S BUREAU INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINDIANA ELKS CHARITIES INC: $37,336 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetreTHink Inc: $36,450 over 2y, 35% of budgetBROWN BAGGER SCHOOL FOOD PROGRAM: $35,894 over 4y, 15% of budgetPride Center of Terre Haute Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 91% 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 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 ↗

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.

United Way of the Wab…Frederick R Benson Tr…Gregory L Gibson Char…Max L Gibson & Jacque…Clara Fairbanks Found…Indiana Chemical Trus…The Hux Family Charit…Lilly Endowment IncRose Ladies Aid Socie…Hollie & Anna Oakley …The George F and Mari…Duke Energy Foundation
United Way of the Wabash Valley IncIN53.1× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Wabash Valley Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wabash Valley Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%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
    1get no government money at all
    31report 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 204 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 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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