Larry J and Dinah M Bird Family
Terre Haute, IN · EIN 82-1529629. Reported 96 grants totalling $877,920 to 56 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Larry J and Dinah M Bird Family did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame | Springfield, MA | $75,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Hamilton Center Foundation | Terre Haute, IN | $55,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Women's Fund of Central Indiana | Indianapolis, IN | $55,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fam | Springfield, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wabash Valley Family Sports Center | Terre Haute, IN | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Flaster Mattingly Family Fund | Boston, MA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hospice of the Wabash Valley | Terre Haute, IN | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | Jacksonville, FL | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Brown County Playhouse | Nashville, IN | $30,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Alzheimer's Association for Research | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hamblen Township Volunteer Fire Department Inc | Nineveh, IN | $25,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| John Mcnichols Memorial Track | Terre Haute, IN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Community School of Naples | Naples, FL | $24,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Comfort Home Place Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Shelter for Abused Women & Children | Naples, FL | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Toby Keith Foundation | Oklahoma City, OK | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Brown County Humane Society | Nashville, IN | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Indiana State University Foundation Inc | Terre Haute, IN | $15,000 | 2 | 1 | 2025 |
| NAMI Collier County | Naples, FL | $15,000 | 2 | 1 | 2025 |
| St Matthew's House | Naples, FL | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Harry Chapin Food Bank Collier County Center | Naples, FL | $14,180 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Golisano Children's Museum of Naples | Naples, FL | $12,500 | 2 | 1 | 2025 |
| Springs Valley Education Foundation | French Lick, IN | $12,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Brown County Volunteer Fire Department | Nashville, IN | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| David Benner Memorial Fund Co Pacers Foundation | Indianapolis, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gibson Family Center for Hospice | Terre Haute, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Grace Place | Hendersonville, TN | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Middle Way House | Bloomington, IN | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Nica - in | Orinda, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Reggie Lewis Track and Field Athletic Center | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Sheltering Wings | Danville, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Simon Youth Foundation | Indianapolis, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Warrior Homes of Collier | Naples, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Collier County | Naples, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Carmel United Methodist Church | Carmel, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Catholic Charities Terre Haute | Terre Haute, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Horizon House | Indianapolis, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mother Cupboards Community Kitchen | Nashville, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nate Mcmillan Foundation | Raleigh, NC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Spina Bifida Indiana | Indianapolis, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Terre Haute Boys and Girls Club | Terre Haute, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Terre Haute Police Department | Terre Haute, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration | King of Prussia, PA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Valerie's House Naples | Naples, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Doug Flutie JR Foundation for Autism | Waltham, MA | $2,550 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Community Fairbanks Recovery Center | Indianapolis, IN | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| International Rhett Syndrome Foundation | Cincinnati, OH | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| National Child Safety Council | Jackson, MI | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League | West Palm Beach, FL | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| R U 4ME Pet Rescue | Boynton Beach, FL | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Patrick's School Project Literacy Media Center Refresh | Terre Haute, IN | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Becerly's Angels | Naples, FL | $2,100 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Barrington of Carmel | Carmel, IN | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Harry Chapin Food Bank | Fort Myers, FL | $1,590 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Southwest Florida Ceo | Fort Myers, FL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
18 of 56 (32%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 53%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
General operational support - Flaster Mattingly Family Fund
$25,000 - In Memory of Charles Oscar Mattingly - Wounded Warrior Project
$10,000 - In Memory of Bill Fitch$25,000 - In Memory of Toby Keith - Hospice of the Wabash Valley
$25,000 - In Memory of Max Gibson - Alzheimer's Association for Research
$25,000 - In Memory of Colleen Mattingly - Wabash Valley Family Sports Center
Lavern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 57 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 11 | $106,590 | $5,000 |
| 2022 | 11 | $162,500 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 22 | $226,000 | $5,000 |
| 2024 | 24 | $170,180 | $5,000 |
| 2025 | 28 | $212,650 | $5,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
50% of its giving went to organizations in Indiana. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Indiana.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Larry J and Dinah M Bird Family's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: One First Financial Plaza, Terre Haute, IN, 47807. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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