How much did BARON & BLUE FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Human Services$407kCrime & Legal$356kHousing & Shelter$280kHealth$170kCivil Rights$88kFood & Nutrition$35kInternational$28kEducation$25kArts & Culture$20kOther$774k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

civillow-incomejustice educationtrialshelterchurchemergency

2021

educationalwomen'sinclement weathertrialhealthhomelessrecovery

2022

lawyering

2023

housingrecovery

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $42k
$10k–50k16 grants · $210k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

FAMILY GATEWAY$20,000
THE BRIDGE HOMELESS RECOVERY CENTER$15,000
AUSTIN STREET CENTER$15,000
THE FAMILY PLACE$15,000
NEXUS RECOVERY CENTER$15,000
HOUSING FORWARD$15,000
THE STEWPOT OF FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$15,000
METROCREST SERVICES$15,000
DALLAS FURNITURE BANK$15,000
SOUL'S HARBOR$10,000
DALLAS HOLOCAUST & HUMAN RIGHTS MUSEUM$10,000
SHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC$10,000
RAINBOW DAYS$10,000
IN MY SHOES$10,000
DALLAS SERVICES$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $309k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.7M · 43 repeat orgs$436k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.

43 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.7M

$401k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+40%

Still filing today

84%

72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthCrime & LegalCivil RightsInternationalOther

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

LA
LEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS
3× · 2020–2022 · $308k · revenue +71%
FG
FAMILY GATEWAY
4× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +201%
U1
UNDER 1 ROOF
2× · 2020–2021 · $45k · revenue +220%

Funded once

TJ
TEXAS JUSTICE AND EDUCATION FUND
one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue -22% · 26% of their budget
AA
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND
one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -10%
DE
DALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +343%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center

DARCC is committed to engaging and educating communities to prevent sexual violence and supporting survivors and their loved ones as they heal and thrive.

Human Services

Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services

Texas Defender Service

Texas Defender Service (TDS) leads the fight to end excessive punishment in Texas.

Civil Rights

Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc

Goodwill Industries of Dallas, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help people with barriers to employment build skills, find jobs and reach their goals in life so that they can reach their full potential and experience…

Employment

Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

To be Texas' foremost champion of individual rights & freedoms through education & litigation.

Civil Rights

Homeless Network of Texas

To lead texas communities to make homelessness rare, brief and non- recurring. to help communities strategically plan to prevent and end homelessness.

Community Improvement

Htx Hope Haven

We are moving people from crisis to lifelong self-sufficiency. We help the homeless and marginalized people in our community navigate through the services available to become self-supporting contributing members of our community.

Human Services

Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education

Innocence Project of Texas

Innocence Project of Texas (IPTX) is a nonprofit human service organization that provides legal and investigative assistance to low-income Texas citizens who were convicted of crimes they did not commit.

Community Improvement

Operation Care International Inc

To help the homeless in the city of dallas, texas and beyond.

Human Services

COMMIT2DALLAS

Our mission is that by 2040, at least half of all 25 to 34 year old residents of Dallas County, irrespective of race, will earn a living wage.

Education

Texas Legal Services Center Inc

To expand access to justice and legal advocacy for low-income Texans.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Mission for Life and the most unlike its peers is Hockaday School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/73

the rest of the field

13%

4,337/33,595

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.

05the grantee network

72 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

70/72

Grantees still filing

57/72

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$846,142Human Services$406,500Crime & Legal$355,500Housing & Shelter$280,000Health$170,000Civil Rights$87,500Food & Nutrition$35,000

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.

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.

The Dallas FoundationTX72.7× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · The Moody Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · The Rees-Jones 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 organisation BARON & BLUE FOUNDATION 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: TEXAS JUSTICE AND EDUCATION FUND.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 611792554 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on TEXAS JUSTICE AND EDUCATION FUND, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 26% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Baron & Blue Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Baron & Blue Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BARON & BLUE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

72 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Baron & Blue Foundation?

More from the funding graph

BARON & BLUE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

72 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Baron & Blue Foundation?

More from the funding graph