· Private foundation
Baer Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $6k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $193k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCK RIVER THRESHEREE INC | $142,801 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $50,000 |
| ST ANTHONY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| KART 4 KIDS | $2,000 |
| SCHOOL COMMUNITY INPACT GROUP | $500 |
| MANITO ART LEAGUE | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- RERUTH ECKERD HALL INC2× · 2022–2023 · $38k · revenue +46%
- NLNORTH LAKELAND DISCOVERY CENTER INC5× · 2017–2021 · $26k · revenue +72%
- CJCAMP JORN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2018–2023 · $18k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- MWMANITOWISH WATERS FIRE COone grant, 2020 · $10k
- MWMANITOWISH WATERS BIKE TRAIL INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -16%
- FEFUNDACION ESPERANZAone grant, 2019 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To inspire hope and contribute to health and well-being by providing the best care to every patient through integrated clinical practice, education, and research.
To maintain over 100 miles of cross country ski and mountain bike trails in the vicinity of lake placid, new york.
The wisconsin state golf association was formed and exists for the general purpose of promoting and conserving, throughout the state of wisconsin, the best interests and the true spirit of the game of golf. included within the general…
The whitewater valley railroad is a heritage railroad dedicated to the preservation and presentation of branch line railroading.
To foster and facilitate the conversion of greenways and railroad rights- of-way in the counties of ionia, kent, and montcalm to non-mototized trails for the use of the general public.
The wmc litigation center's mission is to represent clients in legal actions to foster and protect the free enterprise system.
Removing the barriers initiative was founded in 2011 for the purpose of removing barriers to great expeniences for people and families with disabilities, differences and special needs. we started by assisting camps who served campers with…
Raise funds to aid the division of intercollegiate athletics of the university of wisconsin - madison in furthering its football program.
To provide a platform for youth racing
Cycling
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scholl Community Impact Group Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project for the People of Paraguay. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 30 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ROCK RIVER THRESHEREE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RUTH ECKERD HALL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAKELAND DISCOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP JORN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MANITOWISH WATERS BIKE TRAIL INC ↗
- Who funds KART 4 KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FOR THE PEOPLE OF PARAGUAY ↗
- Who funds APTIV FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KELLER FAMILY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LymeLight Foundation ↗
- Who funds SCHOLL COMMUNITY IMPACT GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds MANITOWISH WATERS LAKES ASSOCIATION 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.
Open a dossier: Clack Foundation Inc · 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 Baer Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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