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Baldwin Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$203kYouth Development$123kEducation$120kArts & Culture$103kEnvironment$47kFood & Nutrition$43kCrime & Legal$38kHousing & Shelter$37kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENT COUNTY SALVATION ARMY$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%DEGAGE MINISTRIES: $4k → 11%DEGAGE MINISTRIES: $4k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$726k · 25 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
6

Total granted

$726k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+22%

Still filing today

76%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHousing & ShelterCivil RightsYouth 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 Michigan
    5× · 2020–2024 · $130k · revenue +139%
  • MF
    MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL
    4× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +52%
  • GR
    GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM
    5× · 2020–2024 · $44k · revenue +129%

Funded once

  • MT
    MEL TROTTER MINISTRIESgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $21k · revenue +30%
  • GR
    GRAND RAPIDS HQ
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +22%
  • AC
    ALANO CLUB OF KENT COUNTY
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +15%
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
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
2
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture
3
Family Outreach Center

Leading the way in promoting healthy family living by reaching out to underserved populations and those who are in our community.

—
4
Great River Childrens Museum

Great river children's museum (grcm) shines a bright light on the power of play to spark children's learning, strengthen families, and build community connections. its dynamic, interactive environments and experiences are a gateway to the…

Arts & Culture
5
Broadway Grand Rapids

To present west michigan audiences with high quality broadway productions and to provide student arts education programs, enriching the community through professional performing arts, as well as to expand the diversity of theatre in the…

—
6
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

—
7
Michigan Family Resources

Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.

Education
8
African Resource Center of West Michigan

The African Resource Center informs connects and equips African immigrants in West Michigan with people and resources to foster a flourishing community in which recent African immigrants can prosper emotionally economically and socially.

Human Services
9
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

—
10
Michigan Legacy Art Park

Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.

Arts & Culture
11
Great Lakes Community Action Partnership

The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.

Human Services
12
The Flint Children's Museum

To inspire a love for learning in science, technology, engineering, math, and art, and awaken imagination through hands-on play.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids' Food Basket Inc; the most unlike its peers is Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State. 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

23 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. 23 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
19/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Michigan: $130,000 · OtherUniversity of MichiganGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY: $70,000 · OtherGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITYKENT INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $35,000 · OtherKENT INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICTCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $24,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERMEL TROTTER MINISTRIES: $21,000 · OtherFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN: $17,500 · OtherMY HOUSE MINISTRY: $16,000 · OtherKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC: $15,000 · Other+11 more: $96,000 · Other+11 moreGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM: $44,260 · Arts & CultureGRAND RAPIDS P…GRAND RAPIDS BALLET: $23,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND RAPIDS B…Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc: $17,000 · Arts & CultureGrandville Ave…GRAND RAPIDS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND RAPIDS C…GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM: $6,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND RAPIDS A…Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentBurr Oak 4-H …MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL: $55,000 · HealthALANO CLUB OF KENT COUNTY: $5,000 · HealthAYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE: $27,500 · Housing & ShelterSAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC: $16,000 · Housing & ShelterBLANDFORD NATURE CENTER: $22,500 · EducationThe Potters House: $15,000 · EducationGROUNDSWELL INC: $24,000 · Environment
Other$424,500Arts & Culture$100,260Youth Development$90,000Health$60,000Housing & Shelter$43,500Education$37,500Environment$24,000

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 budgetUniversity of Michigan: $130,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetBurr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State: $90,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetMARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM: $44,260 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE: $27,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGROUNDSWELL INC: $24,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS BALLET: $23,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBLANDFORD NATURE CENTER: $22,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMEL TROTTER MINISTRIES: $21,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGrandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc: $17,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMY HOUSE MINISTRY: $16,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetSAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Potters House: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASA of Kent County Inc: $14,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetJOHN BALL ZOO: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDEGAGE MINISTRIES: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALANO CLUB OF KENT COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Refugee Education Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State ↗
  • Who funds MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds AYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds GROUNDSWELL INC ↗
  • Who funds GRAND RAPIDS BALLET ↗
  • Who funds BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc ↗
  • Who funds MY HOUSE MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds The Potters House ↗
  • Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA of Kent County Inc ↗
  • Who funds JOHN BALL ZOO ↗
  • Who funds GRAND RAPIDS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds DEGAGE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds GRAND RAPIDS HQ ↗
  • Who funds ALANO CLUB OF KENT COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds The Refugee Education Center ↗

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.

Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI38× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · The Sebastian Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Frey Foundation · The Wege Foundation · Steelcase Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · The David and Carol Van Andel Family 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 Xxx-Xx-Xxxx funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Baldwin Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Baldwin Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx?

    Find your warmest path to Baldwin Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx 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 32 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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