2018 Carroll Award winner: Frank Basile, an ‘honest broker’ who gets things done
Frank Basile is one of the city’s premier philanthropists, sitting on nine not-for-profit boards and winner of the 2018 Michael A. Carroll Award.
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Athenaeum receives Basile gift to help fund $1.2M in theater repairs
Local philanthropists Frank and Katrina Basile have contributed $225,000 toward a fundraising campaign for renovating the theater, which will be renamed for the couple.
Basiles’ $500,000 gift to Eiteljorg includes renaming shop
Local philanthropists Frank and Katrina Basile are the first major donors in a $5 million campaign for the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art.
Bringing New Orleans home to Indianapolis
Frank and Katrina Basile’s Lake Clearwater abode is (almost) filled with art from The Big Easy.
Basiles back IndyFringe’s building acquisition
Gift kicks of $600,000 campaign to renovate, expand theater building.
Basiles donate to new Wishard Hospital
$300,000 from the local philanthropists is the hospital’s first naming-rights gift.
Basiles give big gift to Carmel performing arts center
The center will recognize the donation by naming
the cafe and gift shop inside the 1,600-seat concert hall after the Basiles.
United Way calling on well-heeled to dig deep
After so many years of trying to tap every possible cubicle-dweller for donations, United Way of Central Indiana is putting
more effort into the richest veins in the workplace—the folks in corner offices.
More givers asking not-for-profits to meet goals before getting donations
Restricted gifts have long been common among foundations and corporate funders, but now individuals are getting into the act,
too. Experts say more donors are attaching conditions to their contributions to encourage the recipient to push itself to
achieve.