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Baird Brothers Co Foundation Oag # 79-0577 at a glance

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Baird Brothers Co Foundation Oag # 79-0577

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.

$145k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$479kReligion$151kPhilanthropy$121kFood & Nutrition$100kEducation$45kRecreation & Sports$23kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kYouth Development$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $110k
$6,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NELSONVILLE PARADE OF THE HILLS$30,000
NELSONVILLE FOOD CUPBOARD INC$20,000
STUARTS OPERA HOUSE$20,000
NELSONVILLE PRESBYTERIAN PRESCHOOL$18,000
NELSONVILLE ELKS LADIES AUXILLARY$11,500
SOUTHEAST OHIO HISTORICAL CENTER$10,000
LIFEWISE ACADEMY$6,500
APPALACHIAN LIFE FELLOWSHIP$6,000
CIRCLE ROUND THE SQUARE$5,000
YORK TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT$4,500
NELSONVILLE YORK YOUTH LEAGUE$4,000
ATHENS COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION$4,000
THE CITY OF NELSONVILLE OHIO$3,718
NELSONVILLE YORK SCHOOLS$2,000
02The need
03

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NELSONVILLE FOOD CUPBOARD: $20k → 15%NELSONVILLE FOOD CUPBOARD: $20k → 15%NELSONVILLE FOOD CUPBOARD INC: $20k → 15%NELSONVILLE FOOD CUPBOARD: $20k → 15%NELSONVILLE FOOD CUPBOARD INC: $20k → 15%NELSONVILLE-YORK ATHLETIC BOOSTERS: $7k → 15%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$908k · 13 repeat orgs$153k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
16

Total granted

$908k
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+23%

Still filing today

15%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • SO
    STUARTS OPERA HOUSE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $170k · revenue +63%
  • SO
    STUART OPERA HOUSE
    3× · 2017–2020 · $150k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    7× · 2017–2024 · $112k

Funded once

  • PO
    PARADE OF THE HILLS
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • GD
    GLENFORD DUGGAN POST 229 AMERICAN LEGION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Taylor Township Volunteer Fire Department
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2
Worthington Volunteer Fire Department

The organization provides fire protection for the Worthington area and surrounding towns. The organization also assists the Marion County.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Town of Unionville Volunteer Fire

Fire protection for the residents of unionville nc

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Penelope Volunteer Fire Depart

Penelope volunteer fire department provides fire fighting service and emergency service for the city of penelope, texas, and surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Knifley Area Volunteer Fire Department
Public Safety & Disaster
6
Nebo Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer fire department

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Yarbo Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer Fire Department

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8
Henryville Volunteer Fire Dept

Volunteer fire dept

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Floyd Community Volunteer Firedepartment Incorporated

Non Profit Volunteer Fire Department

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Newport Township Vol Fire Dept

None

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11
Nescopeck Township Volunteer Fire Co No 1

Volunteer fire company services

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Newmansville Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer Fire Department dedicated to protecting life and property by providing the community with fire prevention and educational programs.

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Appalachian Ohio; the most unlike its peers is Paper Circle. 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 40 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STUART OPERA HOUSE: $150,000 · OtherSTUART OPERA HOUSEIndividual grant recipient: $112,431 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNELSONVILLE PARADE OF THE HILLS: $105,000 · OtherNELSONVILLE PARADE OF THE HILLSFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $83,061 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHNELSONVILLE ELKS AUXILIARY: $50,246 · OtherNELSONVILLE ELKS AUXILIARYIndividual grant recipient: $36,008 · OtherNELSONVILLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $36,000 · Other+25 more: $194,669 · Other+25 moreSTUARTS OPERA HOUSE: $170,000 · Arts & CultureSTUARTS OPERA HOU…+2 more: $6,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NELSONVILLE FOOD CUPBOARD INCORPORATED: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE NELSON…NELSONVILLE YORK ATHLETIC BOOSTERS: $6,500 · Human ServicesNELSONVILL…FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO: $71,000 · PhilanthropyLIFEWISE INC: $6,500 · Youth DevelopmentYork Township Volunteer Fire Department: $4,500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$767,415Arts & Culture$176,000Human Services$106,500Philanthropy$71,000Youth Development$6,500Public Safety & Disaster$4,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTUARTS OPERA HOUSE: $170,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetTHE NELSONVILLE FOOD CUPBOARD INCORPORATED: $100,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO: $71,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNELSONVILLE YORK ATHLETIC BOOSTERS: $6,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetLIFEWISE INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAPER CIRCLE: $5,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetNELSONVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $1,000 over 1y, 5.7% 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 STUARTS OPERA HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds THE NELSONVILLE FOOD CUPBOARD INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds NELSONVILLE YORK ATHLETIC BOOSTERS ↗
  • Who funds LIFEWISE INC ↗
  • Who funds PAPER CIRCLE ↗
  • Who funds York Township Volunteer Fire Department ↗
  • Who funds NELSONVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗

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 Baird Brothers Co Foundation Oag # 79-0577 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Baird Brothers Co Foundation Oag # 79-0577. Bigger dots raise more.

2022
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Baird Brothers Co Foundation Oag # 79-0577?

    Find your warmest path to Baird Brothers Co Foundation Oag # 79-0577 through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 40 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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