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Baer Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Baer Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$90kEducation$70kPhilanthropy$23kYouth Development$10kHuman Services$8kArts & Culture$6kInternational$6kRecreation & Sports$2k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$7,772
Median grant
2
States reached
$588k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHABAD OF ASPEN$15,000
CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL$7,772
SULAM$5,000
BULLIS SCHOOL$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SULAM: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Baer Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Baer Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$143k · 5 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +84% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$143k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%
-12%

Still filing today

40%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CE
    CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $63k · revenue +15%
  • JR
    JEWISH RESOURCE CENTER CHABAD OF
    4× · 2022–2025 · $45k
  • UJ
    UJA JEWISH COLORADO ASPEN VALLEY
    2× · 2019–2020 · $15k

Funded once

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER DENVER
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • AM
    ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
  • SI
    Shoresh Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -12%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sherit Isroel
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2
Bronfman Youth Fellowships to Israel in Inc
Youth Development
3
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
4
Connect Israel

Connect israel is a life-long program that aims to strengthen the gap between american jews and israelis through business, creative teamwork, and developing personal relationships.

International
5
University of Judaism Foundation
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6
The Jerusalem Connection
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7
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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9
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
10
International Sephardic Educational & Cultural Center in Jerusalem

The sec is dedicated to strengthening jewish indentiy for youth and young adults, and to building a new generation of spiritual and community leaders. from our historic campus in the old city of jerusalem to our various diaspora branches,…

Religion
11
Denver Jewish Day School

To ensure a jewish future by challenging minds and nurturing souls with a focus on academic excellence and jewish learning.

Education
12
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthright Israel Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Aspen Jewish Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH RESOURCE CENTER CHABAD OF: $45,000 · OtherJEWISH RESOURCE CENTER CHABAD OFUJA JEWISH COLORADO ASPEN VALLEY: $15,000 · OtherUJA JEWISH COLORADO ASPEN VALLEYJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHIN: $10,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINAspen Jewish Center: $10,000 · OtherAspen Jewish CenterJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER DENVER: $7,500 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER DENVERASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL SCHOOL: $3,600 · Other+3 more: $6,800 · Other+3 moreCHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $62,772 · EducationCHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL …BULLIS SCHOOL: $2,500 · EducationJEWISHColorado: $17,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISHColoradoTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $12,500 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION…JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF …FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $2,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $2,000 · InternationalBest Buddies International Inc: $1,500 · InternationalSulam Inc: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$97,900Education$65,272Philanthropy$39,500International$5,500Human Services$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $62,772 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISHColorado: $17,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAspen Jewish Center: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSulam Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetShoresh Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBULLIS SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Mayberg Foundation IncNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Mayberg Foundation IncMD13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Baer Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Baer Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% 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 · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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