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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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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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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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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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.”
The donation is the largest gift to Butler University’s athletic department and the largest known estate commitment in the school’s history.
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.
The goal is to double the community college’s early-childhood education programs by 2027, resulting in nearly 2,000 more graduates each year.
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.
The money will go to start three programs designed to give students real-world business experience along with their classroom experience.
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.
A new study from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy found fewer givers as the pandemic started, but larger donations.
The estate of Jack “J.J.” and Mary Kaye Ott, who met as students at the school, donated the sum.
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.
There have been only a handful of previous $1 billion donations to universities in the U.S., most coming in the past several years.
The foundation said the gift is believed to be the single largest donation to preK-12 Catholic education in the country’s history.
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.
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.
The University of Indianapolis on Thursday said it would use the donation from former banking executive Laura Strain for a major expansion of the Ron and Laura Strain Honors College.
The funding includes $150 million from a single donor, marking the largest gift ever given to the university.
The 2023 list of gifts from individuals or their foundations totaled more than $3.5 billion. Four universities received big gifts, along with four scientific research institutes and a health care system.
The second phase will provide funding for up to six public high schools in Marion County to develop their own plans to get more students into college.
The not-for-profit has already reached 95% of its fundraising campaign’s $7 million goal for the $37 million project, which is now set to be built at 5001 E. Raymond St.
The new facility will replace the existing Indianapolis Animal Care Services shelter at 2600 S. Harding Street.
