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Big gifts bring in $472.9M for Hoosier schools, nonprofits in 2025

January 16, 2026 | Mitzi S. Morris / Special to IBJ

Higher education continues to benefit from both quantity and amount when it comes to Indiana donations, according to data submitted to IBJ. Only two of the 13 gifts of $10 million or more did not go to universities and college.

Dennis Bland keeps Center for Leadership Development—and the kids it serves—moving forward

November 21, 2025 | Sam Stall

For that devotion, and for a lifetime spent quietly strengthening the city around him, IBJ has named Bland the 32nd recipient of the Michael A. Carroll Award.

Lilly joins $1 trillion club as weight-loss drugs fuel stock surge

November 21, 2025 | Bloomberg News

It’s just the latest landmark for Indianapolis-based Lilly, which was catapulted into the top spot as the world’s largest health care company by market capitalization in 2023.

Cultural campus planned as focal point of Crooked Creek

June 20, 2025 | Dave Lindquist

A community-led effort hopes to establish Crooked Creek Cultural Campus near the northwest intersection of West 62nd Street and Michigan Road, with a 200-seat theater and community center nestled in eight wooded acres.

ESOP attorneys see steady work, more M&A deals

June 19, 2025 | Daniel Carson, The Indiana Lawyer

Deals involving employee stock ownership plans have become more desirable in recent years, with ESOP-owned companies representing a growing market opportunity.

Federal funding uncertainty eliminates some Indiana programs, threatens others

June 16, 2025 | Whitney Downard, Indiana Capital Chronicle and Madelyn Hanes, Indiana Capital Chronicle

Indiana is the third most reliant state on federal cash–behind Louisiana and Mississippi according to the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Indiana libraries, museums reeling from federal, state funding cuts

May 29, 2025 | Mitzi S. Morris / Special to Inside INdiana Business

A loss of federal funding for museums and libraries—such as a $3.5 million annual grant typically awarded to the Indiana State Library—is having a ripple effect for institutions across the state.

Braun arranging for independent IEDC audit amid transparency concerns

April 22, 2025 | Cate Charron and Susan Orr

Gov. Mike Braun told IBJ on Tuesday that his office was finalizing the details of an independent audit of the state’s economic development agency: “Hoosier taxpayers deserve clear accountability for how their dollars are spent.”

Editorial: Braun’s order that state foundations file fiscal reports is win for public

April 11, 2025

We encourage the governor to use a similar approach as he faces future public records issues.

Lesley Weidenbener: Help IBJ honor nonprofits at new awards event

April 11, 2025 | Lesley Weidenbener

This program aims to lift up and support top organizations with three Nonprofit of the Year awards and one Foundation of the Year award as well as several nonprofit leadership and program awards.

Q&A with JGA CEO Lee Ernst, who helps nonprofits raise money

April 4, 2025 | Lesley Weidenbener

Johnson Grossnickle & Associates helps as many as 65 nonprofit clients each year boost their relationships with donors and raise the money they need to achieve their missions.

Small town spirit: How Indiana’s rural communities are working to reverse population losses

March 10, 2025 | Mitzi S. Morris, Indiana Capital Chronicle

More than 70% of Indiana’s counties, many of which are rural and also lost population in the 2020 census, are expected to lose residents over the next 30 years.

Q&A with Scott Lingle: Planting the seeds to succeed

February 21, 2025 | Susan Orr

High School Hustle, which helps teens start their first business, is now active in 13 local schools and is set to reach about 1,000 students this year.

Virtual school officials used money for students on political donations instead, prosecutors say

February 12, 2025 | Amelia Pak-Harvey, Chalkbeat Indiana

Leaders of the Indiana Virtual School and Indiana Virtual Pathways Academy face both federal and state cases in which they’re accused of defrauding the state of millions of dollars.

Federal judge blocks ‘catastrophic’ Trump administration cut to NIH grant funding

February 11, 2025 | Jennifer Shutt, Indiana Capital Chronicle

A judge on Monday prevented the National Institutes of Health from changing the percentage that universities and medical schools are paid in facilities and administrative costs in 22 states.

IPS board takes stand against bills that threaten district’s survival

January 31, 2025 | Amelia Pak-Harvey, Chalkbeat Indiana

House Bill 1136, the most extreme bill facing the district, would dissolve IPS and its elected school board and replace it with charter schools overseen by an appointed board.

Financial advisers in demand in digital age

January 10, 2025 | Susan Orr

The industry is in expansion mode, with job growth expected to significantly outpace overall U.S. job growth over the next several years.

Riches and gifts roll on for Lilly Endowment

November 22, 2024 | John Russell

The Lilly Endowment is writing a flurry of big checks again and recently sold more than $50 million worth of stock in namesake drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co. to fund the gifts, many of them to Indiana organizations.

Mark Montieth: Pacers season looks promising as long as history doesn’t repeat itself

October 18, 2024 | Mark Montieth

Now, finally, they are poised to escape rebuilding purgatory and embark on an era of consistent excellence such as the franchise enjoyed from 1994-2000, when it reached the conference finals five times in a seven-year span.

Lilly inches toward rare $1 trillion market-value distinction

July 26, 2024 | John Russell

The spotlight is turning to Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. as the next possible member of the so-called “Trillion-Dollar Club,” based on the drugmaker’s climbing stock price and swelling demand for its treatments for diabetes, obesity and other diseases.

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