How much did BAIRD FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of BAIRD 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

lutheran churchrest seattlemethodist churchcatholic churchwashington's parkpresbyterian churchevangelical

2019

low incomeincome housingrun pugetnami greaterchief seattlerotary rotaryhope ovarian

2020

hairtostaybook-it repertoryarmy cascadeactive heroesbellwether housingbailrainier valley

2021

baptist churchlutheran churchcatholic churchorthodoxchristian churchpresbyterian churchmethodist church

2022

relief internationalalternative educationagainst hungerridgewoodmartha'svalley elementarydiaper bank

2023

way southwalworthplanetbehindjewish children'sway suncoastmaui way

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 3706 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3638 grants · $3.2M
$10k–50k47 grants · $956k
$50k–250k20 grants · $2.0M
$250k+1 grant · $388k

$500

Median grant

States reached

$130M

Total assets

Largest grants

UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY$387,521
UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND$234,394
ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY$150,100
CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL MILWAUKEE$138,720
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$135,450
NATIVITY JESUIT ACADEMY$102,000
SHARP LITERACY INC$101,750
COLORADO UPLIFT$101,500
VOCEL - VIEWING OUR CHILDREN AS EMERGING LEADERS$100,295
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION$100,000
RAINIER SCHOLARS$100,000
THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY$100,000
COLLEGE POSSIBLE CHICAGO$100,000
KIDS ON POINT$100,000
SAINT MARTIN DE PORRES HIGH SCHOOL$95,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $664k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$29M · 1893 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

1893 repeat relationships — 1271 still active in FY2024, 622 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1893

Total granted

$29M

$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+32%

Still filing today

51%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $556k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureAnimalsOther

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

UW
UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +14%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $738k · revenue +3%
MU
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY
8× · 2017–2024 · $394k · revenue +15%

Funded once

CR
CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL TWIN CITIES
one grant, 2023 · $100k
NP
NAZARETH PREP
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -6%
TP
THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -47%

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.

United Food Bank

Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

Augustana College

Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.

Education

Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Embolden creative leaders to transform society through equity, empathy, & imagination.

Education

University of Denver

A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Education

The University of Toledo Foundation

Aligning donor passion and generosity to advance the university of toledo through fundraising, stewardship, and prudent asset management to provide scholarship opportunities for students, tier one athletic programs, education events…

Education

Wakefield School Inc

To foster the character, curiosity, & clear voices the world needs

Education

University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of family medicine.

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Global Fund for Children

To advance the rights and opportunities of children and youth worldwide.

Arts & Culture

The Water Research Foundation

Advancing the science of water to improve the quality of life.

Environment

United Way of Central Ohio Inc

Uwco provides resources to help people meet critical basic needs and achieve student success.

Philanthropy

Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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University of New Haven

See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Start Early. 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

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.6%39/6,929

the rest of the field

11%

206,125/1,812,636

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.

05the grantee network

1039 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

299

Early backer (in before they grew)

1018/1039

Grantees still filing

778/1039

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$15,185,455Education$5,908,199Philanthropy$4,213,758Arts & Culture$2,515,057Human Services$1,236,042Health$1,017,452Community Improvement$519,098

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.

Evan & Marion Helfaer FoundationWI63.2× affinity75 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & · Youth Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Weiss Family Foundation · Hauske Family Foundation Inc · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc

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 BAIRD 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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: VALOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 13.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 811122012 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 VALOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 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

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 78% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 Baird Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Baird 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.

More from the funding graph

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