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Baron & Blue Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$252k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$575kCrime & Legal$510kEducation$316kHuman Services$269kHealth$162kReligion$93kCivil Rights$88kYouth Development$46kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $210k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAMILY GATEWAY$20,000
HOUSING FORWARD$15,000
AUSTIN STREET CENTER$15,000
METROCREST SERVICES$15,000
NEXUS RECOVERY CENTER$15,000
THE STEWPOT OF FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$15,000
THE BRIDGE HOMELESS RECOVERY CENTER$15,000
THE FAMILY PLACE$15,000
DALLAS FURNITURE BANK$15,000
GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT$10,000
SOUL'S HARBOR$10,000
IN MY SHOES$10,000
DALLAS SERVICES$10,000
DALLAS HOLOCAUST & HUMAN RIGHTS MUSEUM$10,000
RAINBOW DAYS$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $329k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%METRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALLIANCE: $20k → 14%HOUSING FORWARD: $10k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $15k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $10k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $10k → 14%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $8k → 14%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%UNDER 1 ROOF: $25k → 14%UNDER 1 ROOF: $20k → 14%THE WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE: $10k → 14%SOUPMOBILE: $5k → 14%HOUSING FORWARD: $15k → 14%OURCALLING INC: $10k → 14%OURCALLING INC: $10k → 14%SHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $10k → 14%SHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $6k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $15k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $15k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $15k → 14%PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC: $5k → 14%GOOD SAMARITANS OF GARLAND INC: $5k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $10k → 14%THE BRIDGE: $25k → 14%GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT: $10k → 14%GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT: $10k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $1k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $5k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY CO: $5k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $5k → 14%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

MN
NY
MA
WY
IN
CO
NM
NC
DC
AL
TX
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 43 repeat orgs$399k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
40

Total granted

$1.8M
$379k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+23%

Still filing today

88%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthCrime & LegalCivil RightsInternationalOther
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

  • LA
    LEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS
    3× · 2020–2022 · $308k · revenue +35%
  • FG
    FAMILY GATEWAY INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +112%
  • BS
    BRIDGE STEPS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • TJ
    TEXAS JUSTICE AND EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue -43% · 26% of their budget
  • AA
    AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE EDUCATION FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +137%
  • DE
    DALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -27%
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
Texas Defender Service

See Schedule OTDS fights for the end of mass incarceration and excessive punishment in Texas through direct representation, policy reform, and public education. TDS stands up for the dignity and humanity of people harmed by mass…

Civil Rights
2
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
3
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
4
Downtown Dallas Inc

Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…

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5
Dallas International University

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

Education
6
Operation Care International Inc

Operation care international exists to glorify god. in obedience to his will, we connect impoverished children and the homeless to jesus christ providing for their physical needs through god's provision both at home and abroad.

Human Services
7
UnBound North Texas

Unbound North Texas exists to support survivors and resource the community to fight human trafficking through Survivor Advocacy, a 24/7 Drop-In Center, and Prevention and Awareness.

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8
Texas Legal Services Center Inc

Texas Legal Services Center is a nonprofit legal aid organization whose mission is to serve the undeserved by making civil justice accessible to every Texan--no matter their ability to earn. We're a coalition of attorneys, paralegals, pro…

Crime & Legal
9
Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center

To engage and educate communities to prevent sexual violence and to support survivors and their loved ones as they heal and thrive.

Human Services
10
Episcopal Foundation of Dallas

The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.

Religion
11
Tarrant County Homeless Coalition

Tarrant County Homeless Coalition leads the community solution to homelessness in greater Tarrant and Parker counties by serving as a catalyst for community transformation.

Human Services
12
LifeHouse of Houston Inc

LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Mission for Life Doing business as Dallas Life; the most unlike its peers is The Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame Inc. 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

77 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. 77 of the 89 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/77
Grantees still filing
55/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS AT DALLAS FOUNDATION: $300,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS AT DALLAS FOUND…FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $55,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $52,500 · OtherAUSTIN STREET CENTERAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 · OtherAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE EDUCATIO…INTERDENOMINATIONAL MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE: $33,000 · Other+39 more: $299,642 · Other+39 moreHOUSING FORWARD: $45,000 · Human ServicesHOUSING FORWARDUNDER 1 ROOF DALLAS: $45,000 · Human ServicesUNDER 1 ROOF DALLASRestored Hope Ministries Inc: $45,000 · Human ServicesRestored Hope Ministri…The Family Place: $40,000 · Human ServicesThe Family PlaceVOGEL ALCOVE: $35,000 · Human ServicesVOGEL ALCOVEIN MY SHOES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesIN MY SHOES INCTHE BRIDGE: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGEMETROCREST SERVICES: $25,000 · Human ServicesMETROCREST SERVICESDALLAS FURNITURE BANK: $22,500 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $20,000 · Human ServicesOURCALLING INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesGENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $20,000 · Human ServicesSHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $15,500 · Human Services+8 more: $43,500 · Human Services+8 moreLEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS: $307,500 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF NORTH…NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $35,000 · Crime & LegalNEW FRIENDS NEW LI…+3 more: $13,000 · Crime & LegalFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $80,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY GATEWAY …DALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterDALLAS EVICTION…DALLAS MISSION FOR LIFE Doing business as Dallas Life: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterDALLAS MISSION …SHARED HOUSING CENTER INC: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterSHARED HOUSING …PROMISE HOUSE INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterPROMISE HOUSE I…SOULS HARBOR INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterSOULS HARBOR IN…LIFELINE FOR FAMILIES INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterHOME POINT: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterRAINBOW DAYS INC: $45,000 · HealthMOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC: $42,500 · HealthNexus Recovery Center Incorporated: $30,000 · HealthRESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC: $25,000 · HealthLEGACY COUNSELING CENTER INC: $22,500 · Health+2 more: $6,000 · HealthTEXAS JUSTICE AND EDUCATION FUND: $75,000 · Civil RightsHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $2,500 · Civil RightsBRIDGE STEPS: $50,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$790,142Human Services$426,500Crime & Legal$355,500Housing & Shelter$300,000Health$171,000Civil Rights$87,500Food & Nutrition$50,000

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 budgetLEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS: $307,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTEXAS JUSTICE AND EDUCATION FUND: $75,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $52,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBRIDGE STEPS: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetDALLAS MISSION FOR LIFE Doing business as Dallas Life: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRAINBOW DAYS INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUNDER 1 ROOF DALLAS: $45,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetRestored Hope Ministries Inc: $45,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetSHARED HOUSING CENTER INC: $45,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetMOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC: $42,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Family Place: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE: $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPROMISE HOUSE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNexus Recovery Center Incorporated: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIN MY SHOES INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetDALLAS SERVICES: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BRIDGE: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMETROCREST SERVICES: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEGACY COUNSELING CENTER INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS FURNITURE BANK: $22,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAttitudes & Attire: $22,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSOULS HARBOR INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOURCALLING INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS LIFE INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFELINE FOR FAMILIES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetGUATEMALA SANA CHILDREN'S PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetHOCKADAY SCHOOL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Area Habitat for Humanity Inc: $14,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEXODUS MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGRAND PRAIRIE UNITED CHARITES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPWA COALITION OF DALLAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGERRY SPENCE METHOD AT THUNDERHEAD RANCH: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGTON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRIAL LAWYER HALL OF FAME INC: $10,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetHOME POINT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Hillcrest FoundationW P & Bulah Luse Foun…Texas Women's Foundat…United Way of Metropo…Texas Instruments Fou…Hoblitzelle FoundationMeadows Foundation IncKatherine C Carmody C…The Moody FoundationRoy and Christine Stu…
The Dallas FoundationTX71× affinity38 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 · Hillcrest Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw · The Moody Foundation · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%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
    23report 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 Baron & Blue Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Baron & Blue Foundation 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 89 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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