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Baldwin Foundation Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Timbuctoo Institute | $30,000 |
| Brave Trails | $30,000 |
| Skowhegan School of Painting Sculpt | $30,000 |
| Dreamweaver Equine Center | $26,500 |
| Aucocisco School | $25,500 |
| Homeworks Trenton | $25,000 |
| Marion Institute Frogfoot Farm | $25,000 |
| Brewster | $17,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,200 |
| Growing Gardens | $1,500 |
| Groundwork Denver | $1,500 |
| North Country School and Camp Treet | $1,500 |
| Farm School NYC | $1,500 |
| Cardigan Mountain School | $1,500 |
| Dutchess Outreach | $1,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% 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 +26% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k 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
- BTBrave Trails5× · 2020–2024 · $145k · revenue +230%
- ASAucocisco School5× · 2019–2024 · $69k · revenue +58%
- STSoul Trak Outdoors2× · 2020–2022 · $60k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- LSLITTLE SEEDS OF PEACE INCORPORATEDone grant, 2019 · $46k · revenue -97% · 76% of their budget
- LPLITTLE PEAKS INCone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -44%
- VCVAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +101%
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.
Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.
Growing a movement for food justice and community wellness through garden-based education.
We work to create a better world through joyful learning on long island sound. soundwaters enriches our community and protects our environment through environmental education, jobs and skills training, and public engagement.
New roots charter school prepares our diverse student body to meet the challenges of citizenship, work, and life-long learning in the 21st century. our interdisciplinary academic program features hands-on, community-based learning that…
The Island School provides a flexible learning environment where each child is known and celebrated.
Independent school offering programs for infants, toddlers, preschool, and elementary school aged children with and without hearing loss.
Garden school, in the independent tradition, affirms the primacy of learning. we empower every student in our educationally diverse community to responsibly meet the challenges of everyday life by promoting academic achievement, personal…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Berkwood Hedge School provides a hands-on developmental curriculum that promotes deep and intuitive learning. Students achieve academic excellence by becoming critical thinkers and creative problem solvers. Our teachers meet the needs of…
The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…
The Avery Coonley School elevates high-achieving and gifted learners through immersion in a mutually talented community where intellect, curiosity, and creativity are enhanced by optimal challenge.
Backyard growers cultivates healthy, connected, resilient communities and fights for food sovereignty by empowering people to grow their own food. we increase equitable access to vegetable gardens and the resources people and communities…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Groundwork Hudson Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Village Birth International. 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 29 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 87 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
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 Brave Trails ↗
- Who funds Aucocisco School ↗
- Who funds Soul Trak Outdoors ↗
- Who funds HomeWorks Trenton ↗
- Who funds DREAMWEAVER EQUINE CENTER CORP ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SEEDS OF PEACE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE PEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds VAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LEARNING WITH A DIFFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK HUDSON VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Crew Haven Corporation ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC ↗
- Who funds Chewonki Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds POLAND SPRING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ACCESSIBLE FESTIVALS INC ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BATH AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds REED INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
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: The Losam Fund · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Leita & William Hamill Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · Fidelity Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-I · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Td Charitable Foundation
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 Baldwin Foundation Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New Bedford Women's Center Inc — 84% of income from government
- Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated — 28% of income from government
- Isles Inc — 21% of income from government
- Food Link Inc — 9% of income from government
- HomeWorks Trenton — 6% of income from government
- Reed Institute — 1% 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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