· Private foundation
Baird 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3781 grants · $3.4M
- $10k–50k59 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k20 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+2 grants · $822k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY | $561,411 |
| UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND | $260,817 |
| CARMEN SCHOOLS OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY | $170,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $120,374 |
| MUSEUM OF AMERICAN FINANCE | $100,000 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT SEATTLE HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| SAINT JOHN CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $75,400 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $74,734 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEE | $62,531 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA | $55,000 |
| SAINT THOMAS MORE HIGH SCHOOL | $53,201 |
| CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $51,500 |
| PEARLS FOR TEEN GIRLS INC | $50,910 |
| HORIZONS FOR YOUTH | $50,118 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
1860 repeat relationships — 1285 still active in FY2025, 575 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $637k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $825k · revenue +39%
- TMTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $484k · revenue +54%
- SFSIFMA FOUNDATION FOR INVESTOR EDUCATION (FIE) INC9× · 2017–2025 · $452k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- TFTEACH FOR AMERICA GREATER CHICAGO NW INDIANAone grant, 2021 · $100k
- TPTHE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -26%
- TNTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.
Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.
Embolden creative leaders to transform society through equity, empathy, & imagination.
A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
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…
To foster the character, curiosity, & clear voices the world needs
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of family medicine.
To advance the rights and opportunities of children and youth worldwide.
Advancing the science of water to improve the quality of life.
Uwco provides resources to help people meet critical basic needs and achieve student success.
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.
See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional 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.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
1250 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1250 of the 2,000 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds SIFMA FOUNDATION FOR INVESTOR EDUCATION (FIE) INC ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ALVERNO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds METRO UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UWM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY WORLD LTD ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds BUILD INC ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust · Youth Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Weiss Family Foundation · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus · Dorothy Inbusch 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 organization 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.
- United Way of the Columbia-Willamette — 25% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — 22% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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