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Webster Gladstone Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$158k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$220kReligion$79kRecreation & Sports$48kEducation$43kHuman Services$21kPhilanthropy$20kCrime & Legal$18kYouth Development$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k29 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$1,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY$64,860
BLOOMINGTON PARKS FOUNDATION$30,500
CARABELLE CHRISTIAN CENTER INC$9,850
IU FOUNDATION$9,750
DEPAUW UNIVERSITY$6,000
CCEF$5,346
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$5,000
PENN CHAMPIONS CLUB$4,500
CHRIST COMMUNITY CHURCH$3,000
W & M BASKETBALL$2,000
CROSSWAY$1,500
TWINLESS TWIN SUPPORT GROUP$1,500
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$1,500
THE GOSPEL COALITION$1,057
RESOLVE$1,000
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 (FY23–23, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WHEELER MISSION: $500 → 18%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

NH
MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
MO
KY
VA
NC
DC
TX
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$323k · 31 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
38

Total granted

$323k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+33%

Still filing today

35%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • Indiana University Health Foundation Inc
    3× · 2020–2023 · $130k · revenue +95%
  • DePauw University
    3× · 2019–2024 · $18k · revenue +43%
  • Indiana University Foundation
    5× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • NH
    NEW HOPE FAMILY SHELTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -16%
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL LOON CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +9%
  • IM
    IU MAUER SCHOOL OF LAW
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…

Health
2
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

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

Health
3
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…

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4
Indiana University Health Bloomington Inc

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

Health
5
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Physicians Inc

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

Health
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
11
Minnesota Hospital Association

Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…

Community Improvement
12
Indiana University Health Jay Inc

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

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Therese; the most unlike its peers is Delaware County Historical Society Inc. 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

31 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. 31 of the 87 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
21/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $31,500 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHBLOOMINGTON PARKS FOUNDATION: $30,500 · OtherBLOOMINGTON PARKS FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $19,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMT ZION CEMETARY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherMT ZION CEMETARY FOUNDATIONNATIONAL MS SOCIETY OF GREATER IL: $10,400 · OtherPENN CHAMPIONS CLUB: $10,000 · OtherIU MAUER SCHOOL OF LAW: $10,000 · OtherCARABELLE CHRISTIAN CENTER INC: $9,850 · Other+59 more: $86,180 · Other+59 moreIndiana University Health Foundation Inc: $129,500 · HealthIndiana University Health Foundation IncNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $64,860 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY+5 more: $2,750 · HealthDePauw University: $18,000 · EducationIndiana University Foundation: $17,350 · EducationSAN DOMENICO SCHOOL: $1,250 · Education+2 more: $750 · EducationNEW HOPE FAMILY SHELTER INC: $15,338 · Housing & ShelterGilead House: $1,500 · Housing & ShelterHomeward Bound of Marin: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON INC: $13,257 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE NATIONAL LOON CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $10,350 · EnvironmentBLOOMINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $5,450 · Philanthropy+1 more: $100 · Philanthropy
Other$222,430Health$197,110Education$37,350Housing & Shelter$17,838Youth Development$15,757Environment$10,350Philanthropy$5,550

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 budgetIndiana University Health Foundation Inc: $129,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $64,860 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDePauw University: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $17,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HOPE FAMILY SHELTER INC: $15,338 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON INC: $13,257 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATIONAL LOON CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $10,350 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMONROE COUNTY CASA INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBLOOMINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $5,450 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY KITCHEN OF MONROE COUNTY INC: $3,302 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGilead House: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAN DOMENICO SCHOOL: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHomeward Bound of Marin: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESOLVE Incorporated: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMONROE COUNTY HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSETON HILL UNIVERSITY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SUDDEN DEATH SYNDROME INSTITUTE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOOSIER HILLS FOOD BANK INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndy Honor Flight Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT THERESE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Indiana University Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds DePauw University ↗
  • Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NEW HOPE FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL LOON CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MONROE COUNTY CASA INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOMINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF MONROE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Gilead House ↗
  • Who funds SAN DOMENICO SCHOOL ↗

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.

Baxter International …Curry Family Foundati…The Seven Kids Founda…Lilly Endowment IncAsante Foundation IncThe Smithville Charit…The Richard M Schulze…The Rink Family Found…Internal Medicine Ass…Community Foundation …Community Foundation …Duke Energy Foundation
Baxter International FoundationIL20.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baxter International Foundation · Curry Family Foundation Inc · The Seven Kids Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Asante Foundation Inc · The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Rink Family Foundation Inc · Internal Medicine Associates Healthcare Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County Inc · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · 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 Webster Gladstone Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Webster Gladstone Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Webster Gladstone Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Webster Gladstone Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 87 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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