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Baldwin Foundation Trust

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.

$163k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$320kYouth Development$145kFood & Nutrition$127kArts & Culture$87kEnvironment$80kHuman Services$74kRecreation & Sports$60kHealth$51kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $146k
$2,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Skowhegan School of Painting Sculpt$30,000
Timbuctoo Institute$30,000
Brave Trails$30,000
Chewonki Foundation$30,000
Dreamweaver Equine Center$26,000
Individual grant recipient$6,200
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Pro Bono Net Inc$2,000
Wabanaki Public Health and Wellnes$1,000
North Country School and Camp Treet$1,000
Gateway Community Services$1,000
Cardigan Mountain School$1,000
Book Harvest$1,000
Friends Academy$1,000
Reed College$1,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Orkestai Farm: $750 → 6%Dutchess Outreach: $2k → 9%Accessible Festivals: $12k → 4%A Farm Less Ordinary: $2k → 7%Soul Trak Outdoors: $30k → 14%Fisherman's Mark: $1k → 4%Soul Trak Outdoors: $30k → 14%The Mary Parish Center: $1k → 14%Mary Parrish Center: $750 → 14%Emergency Action Network - TEAN: $750 → 7%Bath Area Family YMCA: $2k → 9%Bath Area Family YMCA: $2k → 9%Bath Area Family YMCA: $2k → 9%Bath Area Family YMCA: $1k → 9%Bath Area Family YMCA: $1k → 9%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

ME
VT
NH
MN
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
LA
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$921k · 34 repeat orgs$368k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
52

Total granted

$921k
$361k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+19%

Still filing today

59%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • BT
    Brave Trails
    6× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +230%
  • AS
    Aucocisco School
    5× · 2019–2024 · $69k · revenue +58%
  • ST
    Soul Trak Outdoors
    2× · 2020–2022 · $60k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • LS
    LITTLE SEEDS OF PEACE INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2019 · $46k · revenue -97% · 76% of their budget
  • VC
    VAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +101%
  • LP
    LITTLE PEAKS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -44%
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
Land to Learn

Growing a movement for food justice and community wellness through garden-based education.

Food & Nutrition
2
Cold Spring School Inc

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.

Education
3
Garden School Inc

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…

Education
4
Soundwaters Inc

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.

Environment
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
New Roots Charter School

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…

Education
7
Berkwood School

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…

Education
8
Breakwater Learning

School with programs for toddler through grade eight.

Education
9
The Island School

The Island School provides a flexible learning environment where each child is known and celebrated.

Education
10
The River School

Independent school offering programs for infants, toddlers, preschool, and elementary school aged children with and without hearing loss.

Education
11
Avery Coonley School

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.

—
12
Backyard Growers Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Groundwork Hudson Valley Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 92 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/56
Grantees still filing
36/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Skowhegan School of Painting Sculpt: $75,500 · OtherSkowhegan School of Painting SculptDREAMWEAVER EQUINE CENTER CORP: $73,500 · OtherDREAMWEAVER EQUINE CENTER CORPTimbuctoo Institute: $60,000 · OtherTimbuctoo InstituteLITTLE SEEDS OF PEACE INCORPORATED: $46,000 · OtherLITTLE SEEDS OF PEACE INCORPORATEDMarion Institute Frogfoot Farm: $25,000 · OtherCrew Haven Corporation: $25,000 · OtherMarion Institute Forefoot Farm: $25,000 · OtherFriends of Hub Farm: $24,000 · OtherInclusion Festival: $23,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $22,400 · OtherMeridian Institute BeeOdiversity: $21,200 · OtherCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $20,000 · OtherGROUNDWORK HUDSON VALLEY INC: $25,000 · Other+43 more: $130,500 · Other+43 moreAucocisco School: $69,389 · EducationAucocisco SchoolHomeWorks Trenton: $50,000 · EducationHomeWorks TrentonLITTLE PEAKS INC: $30,000 · EducationLITTLE PEAKS INCLEARNING WITH A DIFFERENCE INC: $26,500 · EducationLEARNING WITH A DIFFE…FRIENDS ACADEMY INC: $20,000 · EducationFRIENDS ACADEMY INCPOLAND SPRING ACADEMY: $16,500 · EducationPOLAND SPRING ACADEMYTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRE…CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL: $9,000 · Education+6 more: $13,750 · Education+6 moreBrave Trails: $175,000 · Civil RightsBrave TrailsChewonki Foundation Inc: $50,000 · EnvironmentChewonki …AUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED: $45,000 · EnvironmentAUSABLE F…KENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUST: $11,000 · EnvironmentKENNEBEC …+3 more: $3,750 · EnvironmentSoul Trak Outdoors: $60,000 · Human ServicesACCESSIBLE FESTIVALS INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesBATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $6,750 · Human Services+6 more: $7,250 · Human ServicesSOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC: $41,000 · Food & NutritionMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $2,500 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $2,500 · Food & NutritionVAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCE: $30,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$596,600Education$250,139Civil Rights$175,000Environment$109,750Human Services$86,000Food & Nutrition$46,000Recreation & Sports$31,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBrave Trails: $175,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetDREAMWEAVER EQUINE CENTER CORP: $73,500 over 3y, 15% of budgetAucocisco School: $69,389 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetSoul Trak Outdoors: $60,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetChewonki Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHomeWorks Trenton: $50,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetLITTLE SEEDS OF PEACE INCORPORATED: $46,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetAUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED: $45,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC: $41,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetVAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCE: $30,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetLITTLE PEAKS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLEARNING WITH A DIFFERENCE INC: $26,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCrew Haven Corporation: $25,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetGROUNDWORK HUDSON VALLEY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDS ACADEMY INC: $20,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOLAND SPRING ACADEMY: $16,500 over 2y, 32% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUST: $11,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBATH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $6,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREED INSTITUTE: $5,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARROLL SCHOOL: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BEDFORD WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARY PARRISH CENTER: $1,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROUNDWORK DENVER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROWING GARDENS OF BOULDER COUNTY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISLES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA FARM LESS ORDINARY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVillage Birth International: $1,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetDUTCHESS OUTREACH INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN TABLE OF NASHVILLE INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD LINK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAND IN COMMON INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCanal Dock Boathouse Incorporated: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOWLANDER CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFishermans Mark: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTEREST FOR OTHERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBOOK HARVEST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVermont Haiti Project: $750 over 1y, 0.6% 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 Brave Trails ↗
  • Who funds DREAMWEAVER EQUINE CENTER CORP ↗
  • Who funds Aucocisco School ↗
  • Who funds Soul Trak Outdoors ↗
  • Who funds Chewonki Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds HomeWorks Trenton ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE SEEDS OF PEACE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds AUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds VAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE PEAKS INC ↗
  • Who funds LEARNING WITH A DIFFERENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Crew Haven Corporation ↗
  • Who funds GROUNDWORK HUDSON VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Losam FundMaine Community Found…Leita & William Hamil…PatagoniaorgFidelity FoundationIbm International Fou…The Loring Wolcott & …Elmina B Sewall Found…National Fish and Wil…Princeton Area Commun…The New York Communit…Td Charitable Foundat…
The Losam FundWI24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 Baldwin Foundation Trust?

Find your warmest path to Baldwin Foundation Trust 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 92 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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