Americans gave $4B on GivingTuesday, topping last year’s total
More people also volunteered their time on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving this year, with 11.1 million people in the U.S. volunteering.
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Taylor University leans into Christian identity to attract big gifts
Taylor racked up the highest number of individual million-dollar-plus gifts—14—among the 57 donations in IBJ’s 2024 list of largest individual gifts to Indiana organizations.
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Marian University receives $29M gift for medical school
The donation, the largest individual gift in Marian’s history, came from Julie Wood—on behalf of the Tom & Julie Wood Family Foundation.
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Riley Children’s Foundation lands $8M gift from Lechleiters
The Indianapolis-based foundation, which announced the donation Friday, said the funds would help make mental health and behavioral health services more available to children and adolescents.
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UIndy lands $4.1M grant from Christel DeHaan Family Foundation
The school said the grant will support the university’s Center for Global Engagement with $3 million and the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center with $1.12 million.
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Nonprofits face uncertainty ahead of GivingTuesday
The Tuesday after Thanksgiving has become one of the biggest fundraising days of the year for nonprofits in the United States.
Gov. Braun’s post-election committees raise hundreds of thousands from Indiana business leaders
The latest federal filings show more than $430,000 was raised through Team Braun, a joint fundraising arm.
Nonprofit aims to clothe men reentering the workforce
In Pursuit Of Inc. plans to begin taking referrals early next year from area organizations helping men who are struggling to get their lives together.
$80 million gift to fund new athletic complex at DePauw
The funding commitment from a DePauw alumnus will fund the construction of a new, 70,000-square-foot athletic stadium and sports performance center.
Charitable giving was up in 2024, according to new Giving USA report
Strong performance by companies, particularly in the tech sector, pushed corporate giving up 6%, to a record amount.
Rose-Hulman receives $10M gift for new entrepreneurship program
The donation will be used to establish the Noblitt Entrepreneurship Program, which will provide opportunities to work with faculty on “experiences related to entrepreneurship and the principles of the free market.”
Butler grad donating $12M for women’s sports, leadership funds
The donation is the largest gift to Butler University’s athletic department and the largest known estate commitment in the school’s history.
Tech giants who vilified Trump are now giving him millions
After giving sparsely to the presidential inaugurations of Trump in 2017 and Joe Biden in 2021, the country’s biggest tech firms—Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Uber—have showered the president-elect with gifts or pledges of $1 million each.
Ivy Tech to use $22M Lilly Endowment grant to boost early-ed workforce
The goal is to double the community college’s early-childhood education programs by 2027, resulting in nearly 2,000 more graduates each year.
GivingTuesday estimates $3.6B was donated this year, an increase from 2023
This year, about 18.5 million people donated to nonprofits and another 9.2 million people volunteered on GivingTuesday, according to the organization’s estimates.
UIndy lands $5M gift from graduate and retired Lilly exec Stephen Fry
The money will go to start three programs designed to give students real-world business experience along with their classroom experience.
Fair Oaks Farms education arm getting $2.7M to help further its mission
The Lake States Dairy Center—a nonprofit educational affiliate of Fair Oaks Farms—will receive the contribution from seven financial institutions, the organizations announced Tuesday.
Study shows pandemic’s impact on charitable giving
A new study from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy found fewer givers as the pandemic started, but larger donations.
UIndy announces $5.2M alumni donation, endowed scholarship
The estate of Jack “J.J.” and Mary Kaye Ott, who met as students at the school, donated the sum.
Lilly Endowment to give $100M grant to National Park Foundation
The park foundation described the gift on Monday as the largest grant in history benefiting the U.S.’s national parks. The money will be used to address the needs of the country’s more than 400 national park sites.
Bloomberg Philanthropies gifting $1B to med school, others at Johns Hopkins
There have been only a handful of previous $1 billion donations to universities in the U.S., most coming in the past several years.
Dean and Barbara White Family Foundation to award $150M for Catholic education
The foundation said the gift is believed to be the single largest donation to preK-12 Catholic education in the country’s history.
French Gates to donate $1B over next 2 years to support women’s rights
Melinda French Gates said the donations will go to individuals and organizations working on behalf of women and families globally, including on reproductive rights in the United States.
Community Health lands $5M gift to support housing for its Fairbanks Recovery Center
The donation, which will be paid over five years, is a gift from local philanthropist Julie Wood, on behalf of the Tom & Julie Wood Family Foundation.