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· Private foundation
BAIARDI FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$529k
Granted FY2025
59
Grants
3
Communities
$70k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 86% of BAIARDI FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
purchase livestockpledgenorthharbor springsequipmentfood purchase
2019
itemspurchase equipmenthealthharborfood purchasepurchase processingprocessing cow
2020
purchase fridgefridge freezerharborbuildingfoodpurchase processingprocessing cow
2021
processing patronscompletebuildequipcow processingstationsystem
2022
varsitytravelteamprocessing patronssoftballcompletecow processing
2023
requestcheboyganpurchase cowcow processingexpansionyouthbuilding
2024
cancerpurchase cowcow processingclassroomtripchildren
2025
safehavenroomcancercampchildrencow
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 59 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k45 grants · $139k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $180k
$3,300
Median grant
3
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
- MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$70,000
- EASTERSEALS MORC$60,000
- PREGNANCY CARE CENTER$50,000
- MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATIO$45,000
- THE HAVEN MICHIGAN (PREGCARE CENTE$25,000
- ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY$25,000
- BARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITU$25,000
- UNIV OF MICH MEDICAL SCHOOL$20,000
- HARBOR SPRINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS$15,000
- EMMET COUNTY SHERIFF DEPT$12,500
- NORTHERN MICHIGAN EQUINE THERAPY$12,000
- RESORT BEAR CREEK FIRE DEPT$10,000
- NWMI HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
- BARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITU$10,000
- HARBOR LIGHT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$9,600
02The need
04
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 (FY17–25, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 25% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your 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 earmarks the money.
About 6% of BAIARDI FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
BAIARDI FAMILY FOUNDATION INClessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient addressRecipient 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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.5M · 75 repeat orgs$486k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
75
46
Total granted
$3.5M
$302k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+62%
+14%
Still filing today
23%
15%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $184k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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
- HHHARBOR HALL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $285k · revenue +55%
- MFMANNA FOOD PROJECT6× · 2017–2022 · $106k · revenue +23%
- NMNORTHERN MICHIGAN EQUINE THERAPY9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +176%
Funded once
- OUOAKLAND UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $100k
- RTREADMOND TOWNSHIPone grant, 2018 · $25k
- OEOTTAWA ELEMENTARYone grant, 2024 · $12k
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
Northwest Michigan Rural Housing
To help provide safe, accessible, and affordable housing in Northwest Michigan.
Housing & Shelter
2
Mount Pleasant Discovery Museum
To enhance the community by inspiring creativity, learning and curiosity.
Arts & Culture
3
Sandcastles a Lake Michigan Childrens Museum
To create an environment that encourages and inspires children and families to explore their world, offering hands-on discovery while stimulating creativity, curiousity, the love of learning, cultural awareness, and positive interactions…
Arts & Culture
4
Michigan Heroes Museum
To teach & perpetuate the history of military accomplishments of citizens of the state of michigan and to maintain a museum for that purpose.
Arts & Culture
5
Chippewa Watershed Conservancy Inc
To protect and restore central michigan's land, water, and wildlife resources to improve the quality of life for all.
Environment
6
Land Conservancy of West Michigan
The Land Conservancy of West Michigan exists to help people protect, enjoy and care for natural land in West Michigan.
Environment
7
Great Lakes Museum of Science
To make science, technology, engineering, and math (stem) come alive.
Science & Tech
8
Michigan Lakes and Streams
Preservation and protection of michigan inland lakes and streams
Environment
9
Upper Peninsula Land Conservancy
Protect land today for life tomorrow for communities across michigan's upper peninsula
Environment
10
Harbor Country Chamber of Commerce
To promote business and economic development in sw michigan.
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11
Michigan Maritime Museum Inc
The organization is dedicated to preservation of michigan great lakes and waterways, maritime history and culture and provides maritime education opportunities to the public through permanent and changing exhibits, research library and…
Arts & Culture
12
Legacy Land Conservancy
To protect natural areas, working farmlands, waters and recreation spaces in southeastern michigan.
Environment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Michigan and the most unlike its peers is The Bottomless Toy Chest Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
3%1/33
the rest of the field
14%
2,860/21,127
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
06the grantee network
26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
20/26
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$3,411,290Community Improvement$285,000Human Services$101,084Arts & Culture$50,359Health$44,000Youth Development$31,700Education$26,509
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.
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.
Petoskey-Harbor Springs AreaMI35.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area · Charlevoix County Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast · Triford Foundation · Henry E & Consuelo S Wenger Foundation Inc · Frey Foundation · Gaf Foundation · Oleson Foundation · Catholic Foundation of Michigan · Children's Hospital of Michigan
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 organisation BAIARDI FAMILY 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BLUMS LANDING.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +61% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 262363640 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on BLUMS LANDING, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 21% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Baiardi Family Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Baiardi Family Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines