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Barbara Ann Baldridge Foundation We453 at a glance

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Barbara Ann Baldridge Foundation We453

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$550k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$220k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$908kReligion$163kArts & Culture$122kHealth$98kHuman Services$76kYouth Development$68kHousing & Shelter$38kAnimals$36kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $330k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL$220,000
Arlington Heights United Methodist$55,000
Texas Christian University$55,000
Amphibian Productions Inc$15,000
ALL SAINTS HEALTH FOUNDATION$15,000
STREAMS & VALLEYS INC$15,000
Boy Scouts of America$15,000
5 Stones Foundation Inc$10,000
Meals On Wheels Inc$10,000
UT SOUTHWESTERN MONCRIEF CANCER CENTER$10,000
WOMENS CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC$10,000
Fort Worth Zoologocal Association$10,000
The Warm Place$10,000
Cancer Care Services$10,000
JOHN PETER SMITH HOSPITAL FAMILY MEDICIN$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 (FY22–25, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%United Community Centers Inc: $3k → 11%United Community Centers Inc: $3k → 11%Meals On Wheels Inc: $10k → 11%Meals On Wheels Inc: $8k → 11%Meals On Wheels Inc: $5k → 11%Meals On Wheels Inc: $5k → 11%Hope Farm Inc: $5k → 11%Safehaven Of Tarrant County: $5k → 11%Safehaven Of Tarrant County: $5k → 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 33 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
15

Total granted

$1.5M
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+16%

Still filing today

82%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsOther
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

  • TV
    TRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $701k · revenue +5%
  • TC
    TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $163k · revenue +7%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $28k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • SF
    Slaughter Family Arts Awards
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
  • FW
    FORT WORTH REPORT
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +13%
  • HF
    HOPE FARM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +62%
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
Baylor All Saints Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
2
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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3
Safe City Commission

Support law enforcement and promote public safety awareness and crime prevention in Fort Worth.

Crime & Legal
4
Fort Worth Community Land Trust

The Fort Worth Community Land Trust (FWCLT) was created to provide relief to the poor and distressed and combat community deterioration. Specifically, FWCLT will create, steward and preserve a permanent supply of safe, secure, and…

Housing & Shelter
5
Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education
6
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
7
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth

A faith-based organization whose mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves regardless of their ability to pay.

Health
9
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
10
Scott & White Hospital-Taylor

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
11
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Centennial

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
12
Southwestern Health Resources Hospitals Joc

To create an integrated hospital system operating in the dallas area to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves without regard to their ability to pay.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers' Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. 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

44 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. 44 of the 58 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
24/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL: $701,000 · EducationTRINITY VALLEY SCHOOLTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $163,250 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY+1 more: $500 · EducationArlington Heights United Methodist: $163,250 · OtherArlington Heights United M…Baylor All Saints Medical School: $20,000 · OtherSalvation Army - Fort Worth: $20,000 · OtherThe Warm Place: $15,000 · OtherSTREAMS & VALLEYS INC: $25,000 · OtherSTREAMS & VALLEYS INCRIVERTREE ACADEMY: $20,000 · OtherDAY RESOURCE CENTER FOR HOMELESS: $15,000 · OtherTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY: $20,000 · Other+20 more: $90,000 · Other+20 moreBoy Scouts of America Longhorn Council Properties Foundation Inc: $60,000 · Philanthropy5 STONES FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyJPS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTexas Cultural Trust Council: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,500 · PhilanthropyAMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureCASA MANANA INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureFort Worth Opera Association Inc: $8,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureTEXAS & SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE RAISERS' FOUNDATION: $4,500 · Arts & CultureYOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER FORT WORTH: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $4,000 · Arts & CultureCANCER CARE SERVICES: $30,000 · HealthTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC: $20,000 · HealthAll Saints Health Foundation: $15,000 · HealthUT SOUTHWESTERN MONCRIEF CANCER CENTER MONCRIEF CANCER INSTITUTE: $10,000 · HealthNEURO ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Health+2 more: $2,000 · HealthMEALS ON WHEELS: $27,500 · Human ServicesSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $10,000 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHOPE FARM INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $35,000 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · Animals
Education$864,750Other$388,250Philanthropy$117,500Arts & Culture$105,500Health$80,000Human Services$47,500Animals$36,000

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 budgetTRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL: $701,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $163,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBoy Scouts of America Longhorn Council Properties Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetAMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS INC: $55,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER CARE SERVICES: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $27,500 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetSTREAMS & VALLEYS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budget5 STONES FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRIVERTREE ACADEMY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJPS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAll Saints Health Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAY RESOURCE CENTER FOR HOMELESS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCASA MANANA INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FORT WORTH NATURE CENTER & REFUGE INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF FORT WORTH INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Cultural Trust Council: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFort Worth Opera Association Inc: $8,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFORT WORTH REPORT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLVTRISE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE FARM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS & SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE RAISERS' FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER FORT WORTH: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEURO ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHelping Restore Ability: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArt of Living Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALING AND MENTAL HEALTH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FORT WORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET FRONTIER OF TEXAS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetB NOBLE FARMS FOUNDATION FOR RESCUED ANIMALS: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

Thomas M Helen McKee …Amon G Carter Foundat…Sid W Richardson Foun…Ann L Rhodes and Caro…Garvey Texas Foundati…Paul E Andrews Jr Fou…Mary Potishman Lard T…Community Foundation …The Roach Foundation …Communities Foundatio…Bnsf Railway Foundati…Amon G Carter-Star Te…
Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation IncTX59.3× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Amon G Carter Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Paul E Andrews Jr Foundation · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Roach Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund

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 Barbara Ann Baldridge Foundation We453 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barbara Ann Baldridge Foundation We453. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 58 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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