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Baja Bound Foundation Inc

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.

$21k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$194
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAR REACHING MINISTRIES INC DBA BETHESDA TEACHING MINISTRY$5,000
SMART BORDER COALITION$2,100
LA MISION CHILDRENS FUND$2,000
WILDCOAST$1,500
GENESIS INTERNATIONAL ORPHANAGE FOUNDATION$1,500
VOICE OF SAN DIEGO$1,500
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,500
AMOR MINISTRIES INC$1,200
PROJECT AMIGO$1,000
DOOR OF FAITH MINISTRIES$1,000
HOME FOR ORPHANS OF MEXICAN EXTRACTION INC$800
HEARTS OF BAJA CHILDRENS HOME NETWORK$700
BAJA LOVE OUTREACH$500
BAJA BOUND MINISTRIES$500
BAJA CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES$400
02The need
02

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PROJECT AMIGO: $1k → 8%HOME FOR ORPHANS OF MEXICAN EXTRACTION INC: $800 → 10%BAJA LOVE OUTREACH: $500 → 10%AMOR MINISTRIES INC: $1k → 11%BAJA CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $400 → 14%INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%LA MISION CHILDRENS FUND: $2k → 11%HEARTS OF BAJA CHILDRENS HOME NETWORK: $700 → 11%WILDCOAST: $2k → 11%VOICE OF SAN DIEGO: $2k → 11%FAR REACHING MINISTRIES INC DBA BETHESDA TEACHING MINISTRY: $5k → 11%SMART BORDER COALITION: $2k → 11%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 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
Baja Vision Ministries

Our mission is to build homes for poor families in tijuana mexico as well as to operate an orphanage called city of angels also in tijuana

Housing & Shelter
2
Baja Missions Inc

To demonstrate the love of Jesus by bringing spiritual guidance and physical relief to the people of Baja and the planting of Christ's church in communities in need of the Gospel.

International
3
Mexico Orphan Missions Inc
International
4
Hope Without Boundaries

Charity work in Tijuana, Mexico

International
5
Rancho De Los Ninos
Human Services
6
Yucatan Outreach Ministries

Starting and maintaining missions/churches in Mexico

Religion
7
La Mision Ministries

To serve, support, educate and improve the quality of life in local communities of Northern Baja California, Mexico.

International
8
Baja Missions Ministry

Providing homes and scholarships

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9
Tijuana Christian Mission City of Refuge

Maintain and operate a home for needy and homeless children in mexico. development of programs and maintenance of home and churches in baja california mexico. also womens shelter for battered woman in rosarito. childrens home for needy…

International
10
Vida Joven Foundation

We transform the lives of orphaned and migrant children in Baja California, Mexico by resourcing and strengthening exceptional programs that serve these young people.

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11
Ojala Ministries

Working to provide improvement opportunities for families and promote a life of appreciation and gratitude by creating a community of faith and service with our neighbors in Mexico.

Youth Development
12
Los Cabos Missions for Christ

Our mission is to provide crucial support to the residents of the los cabos community while sharing the love and hope of jesus christ.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baja Christian Ministries; the most unlike its peers is Wildcoast. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
3/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAR REACHING MINISTRIES INC DBA BETHESDA TEACHING MINISTRY: $5,000 · OtherFAR REACHING MINISTRIES INC DBA BETHESDA TEACHING MINISTRYSMART BORDER COALITION: $2,100 · OtherSMART BORDER COALITIONAMOR MINISTRIES INC: $1,200 · OtherAMOR MINISTRIES INCHEARTS OF BAJA CHILDRENS HOMES NETWORK: $700 · OtherHEARTS OF BAJA CHILDRENS HOMES NETWORKProject Amigo: $1,000 · OtherProject AmigoBAJA BOUND MINISTRIES FKA NATIONAL YOUTH INNOVATIONS INC: $500 · OtherBaja Christian Ministries: $400 · OtherBAJA LOVE OUTREACH: $500 · OtherGenesis International Orphanage Foundation: $1,500 · InternationalGenesis Inte…HOMES FOR ORPHANS OF MEXICAN EXTRACTION INC: $800 · InternationalHOMES FOR OR…LA MISION CHILDRENS FUND: $2,000 · EducationLA MISION …VOICE OF SAN DIEGO: $1,500 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,500 · PhilanthropyWILDCOAST: $1,500 · EnvironmentDoor of Faith Ministries Inc: $1,000 · Community Improvement
Other$11,400International$2,300Education$2,000Arts & Culture$1,500Philanthropy$1,500Environment$1,500Community Improvement$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLA MISION CHILDRENS FUND: $2,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGenesis International Orphanage Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVOICE OF SAN DIEGO: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDCOAST: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMOR MINISTRIES INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDoor of Faith Ministries Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProject Amigo: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES FOR ORPHANS OF MEXICAN EXTRACTION INC: $800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAJA BOUND MINISTRIES FKA NATIONAL YOUTH INNOVATIONS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAJA LOVE OUTREACH: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBaja Christian Ministries: $400 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Baja Bound Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Baja Bound 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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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