· Private foundation
Baier Family Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RUN MINISTRIES | $45,000 |
| COME SEE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| THE STORY CHURCH HOUSTON | $10,000 |
| RIVER OAKS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 41% of Baier Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 26% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 28%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RUReaching Unreached Nations Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue -12%
- IGIndividual grant recipient5× · 2020–2024 · $122k
- SCSTORY CHURCH HOUSTON4× · 2021–2024 · $75k
Funded once
- HGHouston Grand Opera Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +26%
- SLSt Luke's United Methodist Churchone grant, 2020 · $8k
- ATAID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE AVone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 14 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Reaching Unreached Nations Inc ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds River Oaks Chamber Orchestra ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TURNING POINT INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Baier Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Baier Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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