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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.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$179kArts & Culture$86kHealth$32kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kCrime & Legal$2kReligion$1kAnimals$1kPublic Benefit$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$60,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$270k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE DALTON SCHOOL$60,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 46% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%THE DALTON SCHOOL: $60k → 17%VOLUSIA SHERIFFS FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%THE BARTELS FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%COLLEGE AMERICA: $5k → 9%ORANGE COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $500 → 10%ARTS CENTER IN ORANGE: $31k → 10%VIRGINIA CIVICS EDUCATION INC: $500 → 11%LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY: $5k → 20%VIRGINIA TECH: $8k → 21%RADFORD UNIVERSITY: $10k → 25%THE RAPIDAN ORCHESTRA: $3k → 8%ORANGE COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $500 → 10%ARTS CENTER IN ORANGE: $9k → 10%RADFORD UNIVERSITY: $10k → 25%THE RAPIDAN ORCHESTRA: $3k → 8%ORANGE COUNTY FREE CLINIC: $6k → 10%RADFORD UNIVERSITY: $10k → 25%RAPIDAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $2k → 8%ORANGE COUNTY FREE CLINIC: $5k → 10%RADFORD UNIVERSITY: $10k → 25%THE RAPIDAN ORCHESTRA: $2k → 8%ORANGE COUNTY FREE CLINIC: $5k → 10%RAPIDAN ORCHESTRA: $2k → 8%ORANGE COUNTY FREE CLINIC: $5k → 10%RAPIDAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $2k → 8%ORANGE COUNTY FREE CLINIC: $5k → 10%RAPIDAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 8%ORANGE COUNTY FREE CLINIC: $5k → 10%RAPIDAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $600 → 8%ARTS CENTER IN ORANGE: $3k → 10%RAPIDAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $600 → 8%ARTS CENTER IN ORANGE: $2k → 10%RAPIDAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $500 → 8%ARTS CENTER IN ORANGE: $2k → 10%ORANGE COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $2k → 10%MUSEUM OF CULPEPER HISTORY: $600 → 8%ORANGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $1k → 10%K-9 SHERRIFFS OFFICE ORANGE COUNTY: $1k → 10%ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $1k → 10%ORANGE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $500 → 10%ORANGE COUNTY FREE CLINIC: $500 → 10%JAMES MADISON MUSEUM: $500 → 10%ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $500 → 10%JAMES MADISON MUSEUM: $500 → 10%ORANGE COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD: $500 → 10%ORANGE COUNTY FREE CLINIC: $500 → 10%ARTS CENTER IN ORANGE: $500 → 10%ORANGE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $500 → 10%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$201k · 13 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +33% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
17

Total granted

$201k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+33%

Still filing today

31%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public Safety & DisasterArts & CultureEducationHealthSocial ScienceOther
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

  • AC
    ARTS CENTER IN ORANGE INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $47k · revenue +21%
  • OF
    Orange Free Clinic Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +79%
  • RV
    Rapidan Volunteer Fire Department
    6× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BARTELS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +631%
  • VT
    VIRGINIA TECH
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
  • LU
    LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
Orange County Rural Vfd District 1

The organization provides fire protection services for orange county indiana.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Orange Volunteer Fire Assoc Inc

To provide fire services to the town of orange

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3
Orangeville Community Fire Company

Provide volunteer fire protection and other emergency services for the community.

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Gordonsville Volunteer Fire Company

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Oceana Fire Association

The mission of the oceana fire association is to serve the community of oceana by dispelling fires and the protection of person and property.

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Vienna Volunteer Fire Department

Non profit volunteer fire department for the city of vienna, wv and surrounding areas. committed to educating communities about fire and safety.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Legal Aid Society of Orange County Inc

Providing legal services to needy persons

Crime & Legal
8
Ocean View Volunteer Fire Co Inc

Provide fire fighting services to the residents of dennis township

Recreation & Sports
9
Orlean Volunteer Fire Department

To provide volunteer emergency fire and rescue services to fauquier, culpeper and rappahannock counties.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Oakland Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Providing fire protection to the residents of oakland, md and surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
City of Orange Public Library Foundation

The Orange Public Library Foundation is a non-profit organization raising money to support and enhance Orange public library facilities services programs and technology.

Education
12
Voice of Orange CountyOrg

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange Volunteer Fire Co Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · OtherOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITYRADFORD UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · OtherRADFORD UNIVERSITYRAPIDAN ORCHESTRA: $9,700 · OtherRAPIDAN ORCHESTRAVIRGINIA TECH: $8,055 · OtherVIRGINIA TECHRapidan Volunteer Fire Department: $6,400 · OtherLONGWOOD UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · OtherCOLLEGE AMERICA: $5,000 · Other+17 more: $11,600 · Other+17 moreARTS CENTER IN ORANGE INC: $46,500 · Arts & CultureARTS CENTER IN ORANGE INCTHE BARTELS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARTELS FOUNDATIONDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $60,000 · EducationDALTON SCHOOLS INCOrange Free Clinic Inc: $31,600 · HealthOrange Free…VOLUSIA SHERIFFS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Public Safety & DisasterORANGE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC: $100 · Public Safety & DisasterVIRGINIA CIVICS EDUCATION INC: $500 · Social Science
Other$145,755Arts & Culture$71,500Education$60,000Health$31,600Public Safety & Disaster$1,100Social Science$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTS CENTER IN ORANGE INC: $46,500 over 6y, 19% of budgetOrange Free Clinic Inc: $31,600 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetRapidan Volunteer Fire Department: $6,400 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetVOLUSIA SHERIFFS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 31 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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