· Private foundation
Baer 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE DALTON SCHOOL | $60,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 46% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- ACARTS CENTER IN ORANGE INC6× · 2017–2022 · $47k · revenue +21%
- OFOrange Free Clinic Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +79%
- RVRapidan Volunteer Fire Department6× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- TBTHE BARTELS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +631%
- VTVIRGINIA TECHone grant, 2022 · $8k
- CACOLLEGE AMERICAone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
The organization provides fire protection services for orange county indiana.
To provide fire services to the town of orange
Provide volunteer fire protection and other emergency services for the community.
The organization is an all-volunteer fire department serving the counties of orange and louisa, va. its purpose is to provide emergency services to the businesses and residences of orange and louisa, va.
The mission of the oceana fire association is to serve the community of oceana by dispelling fires and the protection of person and property.
Non profit volunteer fire department for the city of vienna, wv and surrounding areas. committed to educating communities about fire and safety.
Providing legal services to needy persons
Provide fire fighting services to the residents of dennis township
To provide volunteer emergency fire and rescue services to fauquier, culpeper and rappahannock counties.
Providing fire protection to the residents of oakland, md and surrounding areas.
The Orange Public Library Foundation is a non-profit organization raising money to support and enhance Orange public library facilities services programs and technology.
To hold government agencies, elected officials and other power brokers in orange county accountable through investigative news coverage. to be catalyst in the community for a robust and sophisticated discourse on local politics and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange Volunteer Fire Co Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rapidan Volunteer Fire Department. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 31 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 DALTON SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS CENTER IN ORANGE INC ↗
- Who funds Orange Free Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BARTELS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rapidan Volunteer Fire Department ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUSIA SHERIFFS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA CIVICS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 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 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.