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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.

$7.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
3,862
Grants FY2025still arriving
51
States reached
$561k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$13MPhilanthropy$6.3MHealth$4.6MReligion$4.4MArts & Culture$4.1MHuman Services$2.5MYouth Development$2.3MRecreation & Sports$1.8MOther$0
02FY2025 · 3862 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3781 grants · $3.4M
  • $10k–50k59 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+2 grants · $822k
$500
Median grant
51
States reached
$143M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SAINT JOHN CATHOLIC SCHOOL$100,000
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN FINANCE$100,000
CRISTO REY JESUIT SEATTLE HIGH 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
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC: $5k → 12%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION: $13k → 6%TRUE TO LIFE MINISTRIES: $7k → 10%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $46k → 10%YMCA OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $9k → 11%ST JOSEPH PEACE MISSION FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $9k → 11%JEREMIAH'S PLACE: $49k → 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 14%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $50k → 14%YMCA OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $5k → 11%YMCA OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $5k → 11%THE WOODLANDS FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%THE WOODLANDS FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%RAISEUP FAMILIES: $5k → 16%OZAUKEE FAMILY SERVICES: $7k → 6%RAISEUP FAMILIES: $5k → 16%ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE: $20k → 17%THE CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $75k → 15%HEAR WISCONSIN INC: $6k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN INC: $5k → 17%MISERICORDIA HOME: $6k → 14%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $6k → 14%SHARP LITERACY INC: $102k → 17%CLEARBROOK: $5k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $5k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $5k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $5k → 14%CLEARBROOK: $5k → 14%ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE: $10k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $100k → 17%JOURNEY HOUSE: $100k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $9k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $7k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST CHAPTER: $6k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST CHAPTER: $6k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 17%SECUREFUTURES: $78k → 17%THE ABILITY CENTER: $20k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $18k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $12k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
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IL
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OR
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SD
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IN
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CA
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CO
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MO
KY
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VA
MD
DE
AZ
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AR
TN
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HI
OK
LA
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AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$34M · 1860 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

1860 repeat relationships: 1284 still active in FY2025, 576 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1860
71

Total granted

$34M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+5%

Still filing today

61%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $637k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $825k · revenue +39%
  • TM
    THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $484k · revenue +54%
  • SF
    SIFMA FOUNDATION FOR INVESTOR EDUCATION (FIE) INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $452k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • KO
    KIDS ON POINT INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -21%
  • TN
    THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • TF
    TEACH FOR AMERICA GREATER CHICAGO NW INDIANA
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
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
United Food Bank

Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
2
Augustana College

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

Education
3
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

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

Education
4
University of Denver

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

Education
5
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
6
Wakefield School Inc

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

Education
7
University Family Physicians Inc

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

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8
Global Fund for Children

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

Arts & Culture
9
The Water Research Foundation

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

Environment
10
United Way of Central Ohio Inc

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

Philanthropy
11
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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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Services Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

1252 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. 1252 of the 2,000 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
299
Early backer (in before they grew)
1227/1252
Grantees still filing
935/1252
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Notre Dame du Lac: $1,040,318 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du LacUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $825,186 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $484,248 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN I…Marquette University: $414,400 · EducationMarquette UniversityST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC: $406,185 · EducationST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY I…CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $318,490 · EducationALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC: $275,110 · Education+40 more: $3,699,016 · Education+40 moreUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $3,528,339 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER M…UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $889,554 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLI…METRO UNITED WAY INC: $231,640 · Philanthropy+8 more: $527,485 · Philanthropy+8 moreCRISTO REY JESUIT MILWAUKEE HIGH SCHOOL INC: $477,123 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT MILWAUKEE HIG…TEACH FOR AMERICA - MILWAUKEE: $229,497 · OtherSIFMA FOUNDATION FOR INVESTOR EDUCATION (FIE) INC: $451,619 · OtherSIFMA FOUNDATION FOR INVESTOR E…+91 more: $5,641,697 · Other+91 moreUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $1,677,349 · Arts & CultureUNITED PERFO…MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $243,656 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE AR…MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $200,124 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE PU…MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC: $141,522 · Arts & CultureFUND FOR THE ARTS INC: $99,258 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $382,859 · Arts & Culture+10 moreCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $238,968 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $141,770 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $118,321 · HealthTHE JACK AND JILL LATE STAGE CANCER FOUNDATION: $92,055 · HealthChildrens Oncology Services Inc: $79,936 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $70,934 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $65,426 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation: $61,921 · HealthMemorial Hermann Foundation: $44,382 · HealthGLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $41,413 · HealthZERO PROSTATE CANCER: $40,757 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $37,787 · Health+2 more: $51,385 · HealthUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $170,996 · Human ServicesJOURNEY HOUSE INC: $115,833 · Human ServicesSHARP LITERACY INC: $107,623 · Human ServicesSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $98,154 · Human ServicesCABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $86,219 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $55,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $52,529 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc: $50,568 · Human ServicesJEREMIAH'S PLACE PITTSBURGH RELIEF NURSERY: $49,356 · Human ServicesGENERATIONS AHEAD: $45,694 · Human ServicesSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $41,251 · Human ServicesMISERICORDIA HOME: $37,886 · Human Services+2 more: $60,607 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $237,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $110,600 · Community ImprovementMMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $104,500 · Community ImprovementFOR-M FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · Community ImprovementForward Foundation Inc: $30,605 · Community Improvement
Education$7,462,953Philanthropy$5,177,018Other$6,799,936Arts & Culture$2,744,768Health$1,085,055Human Services$971,716Community Improvement$542,705

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $3,528,339 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $1,677,349 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $1,040,318 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $889,554 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $825,186 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $484,248 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSIFMA FOUNDATION FOR INVESTOR EDUCATION (FIE) INC: $451,619 over 9y, 7.4% of budgetMarquette University: $414,400 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC: $406,185 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $318,490 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC: $275,110 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $243,656 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $238,968 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC: $237,325 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetMILWAUKEE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $237,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetALVERNO COLLEGE: $232,341 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMETRO UNITED WAY INC: $231,640 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $200,124 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCARMEN HIGH SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC: $194,000 over 7y, 44% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $189,683 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC: $188,750 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetDISCOVERY WORLD LTD: $178,902 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $170,996 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC: $167,858 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetBUILD INC: $165,725 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetCRISTO REY NETWORK: $161,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $147,050 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING: $144,500 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $144,063 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $141,770 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC: $141,522 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS: $134,203 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEE: $132,774 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund: $125,262 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP: $121,575 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCOLORADO UPLIFT INC: $120,590 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $118,321 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetVocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders: $116,828 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC: $115,911 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetJOURNEY HOUSE INC: $115,833 over 8y, 8.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO: $114,966 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $110,600 over 6y, 17% of budgetSHARP LITERACY INC: $107,623 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $107,543 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $107,455 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVITY ACADEMY AT SAINT BONIFACE: $106,467 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetMMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $104,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $104,425 over 6y, 0.3% 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 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 ↗

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.

Ralph Evinrude Founda…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Anon Charitable TrustYouth Foundation IncGardner FoundationWeiss Family Foundati…Richard and Ethel Her…Melitta S and Joan M …Bert L and Patricia S…United Way of Greater…Jerome J and Dorothy …Dorothy Inbusch Found…
Ralph Evinrude Foundation IncWI62.1× affinity103 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Baird Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
55report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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How do I get to Baird Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Baird Foundation Inc 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 2000 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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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home