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AW Baldwin Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Philanthropy$8.8MHealth$4.1MEducation$3.8MHuman Services$560kAnimals$250kYouth Development$203kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k5 grants · $768k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$184,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sandy Springs Friends School$500,000
Lowell School$200,000
Classroom 2 Community Inc$184,000
A Wider Circle$140,800
Empowering the Ages$140,000
Our House$103,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $540k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE SEEING EYE: $200k → 4%THE SEEING EYE: $100k → 4%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $50k → 16%THE SEEING EYE: $100k → 4%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $50k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $40k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.2M · 17 repeat orgs$834k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
1

Total granted

$8.2M
$150k

Still filing today

71%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $684k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NC
    NATIONAL CELIAC ASSOCIATION INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +27% · 58% of their budget
  • PS
    PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1.5M · revenue +49%
  • ET
    EMPOWERING THE AGES INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $420k · revenue +61% · 52% of their budget

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $150k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lifestream Inc

Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.

Health
2
Marrakech Inc

Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…

Employment
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

4
The Maryland School for the Blind

As a statewide resource center, the school provides outreach, educational and residential services for students to reach their fullest potential by preparing them to be as successful, independent, and well-rounded contributing members of…

Education
5
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
6
Center for Living & Working Inc

We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.

Human Services
7
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School

Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.

Education
8
Neighborhealth Corporation

Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…

Health
9
Abilities Network Inc

Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.

Health
10
Usaging

Usaging represents & supports the national network of area agencies on aging & advocates for the title vi native american aging programs that help older adults & people with disabilities live with optimal health, well-being, independence &…

11
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
12
Jewish Vocational Service Inc

To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc and the most unlike its peers is Joslin Diabetes Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN GIFT FUND — $8,800,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN GIFT FUNDMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $700,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM I…MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — $525,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL …SANDY SPRING FRIENDS SCHOOL — $500,000 · OtherSANDY SPRING FRIENDS S…Literacy Council of Montgomery County — $365,000 · OtherLiteracy Council of Mo…THE BARSTOW SCHOOL — $350,000 · OtherTHE BARSTOW SCHOOLOUR HOUSE INC — $340,000 · OtherOUR HOUSE INCOUR HOUSE INC — $203,000 · OtherOUR HOUSE INCLITERACY COUNCIL — $180,000 · OtherHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL — $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $150,000 · OtherPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND — $1,545,000 · EducationPERKINS SCHOOL …LOWELL SCHOOL — $400,000 · EducationLOWELL SCHOOLA WIDER CIRCLE INC — $240,800 · EducationA WIDER CIRCLE …Classroom 2 Community Inc — $184,000 · EducationClassroom 2 Com…NATIONAL CELIAC ASSOCIATION INC — $1,640,000 · HealthNATIONAL CEL…JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC — $350,000 · HealthJOSLIN DIABE…THE SEEING EYE INC — $400,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $140,000 · Human ServicesEMPOWERING THE AGES INC — $420,000 · Youth DevelopmentMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $250,000 · Animals
Philanthropy$8,800,000Other$3,463,000Education$2,369,800Health$1,990,000Human Services$540,000Youth Development$420,000Animals$250,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN GIFT FUND — $8,800,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetNATIONAL CELIAC ASSOCIATION INC — $1,640,000 over 6y, 58% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND — $1,545,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetEMPOWERING THE AGES INC — $420,000 over 4y, 52% of budgetLOWELL SCHOOL — $400,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC — $400,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC — $350,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BARSTOW SCHOOL — $350,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC — $340,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $250,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC — $240,800 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetClassroom 2 Community Inc — $184,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $140,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds AMERICAN GIFT FUND
  • Who funds NATIONAL CELIAC ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
  • Who funds EMPOWERING THE AGES INC
  • Who funds LOWELL SCHOOL
  • Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC
  • Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC
  • Who funds THE BARSTOW SCHOOL
  • Who funds OUR HOUSE INC
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  • Who funds A WIDER CIRCLE INC
  • Who funds OUR HOUSE INC
  • Who funds Classroom 2 Community Inc
  • Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Endowment FoundationOH8.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization AW Baldwin Charitable Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Joslin Diabetes Center Inc35% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc8% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind7% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc6% of income from government
  • Our House Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to AW Baldwin Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to AW Baldwin Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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