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Bauer Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$346k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.8MPhilanthropy$1.1MHuman Services$966kFood & Nutrition$873kEducation$681kCommunity Improvement$146kHealth$99kInternational$76kOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k29 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $640k
  • $250k+1 grant · $346k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING$346,000
CARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC & THE ARTS INC$175,000
NEIGHBORS LINK CORP$100,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$100,000
CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS$100,000
CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS$65,000
COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER INC$50,000
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC$50,000
FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC$25,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$25,000
TEMPLE SHAARAY TEFILA OF WESTCHESTER$25,000
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC$15,000
BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC$15,000
KATONAH VILLAGE LIBRARY$15,000
STUYVESANT HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC$10,000
02The need
03

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, $983k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOUR CHILDREN INC: $1k → 13%BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $15k → 17%BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $15k → 17%BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $15k → 17%BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $15k → 17%BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $15k → 17%PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC: $1k → 9%PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC: $1k → 9%PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC: $1k → 9%PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC: $1k → 9%PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC: $1k → 9%DOROT INC: $3k → 17%DOROT INC: $3k → 17%DOROT INC: $3k → 17%DOROT INC: $3k → 17%DOROT INC: $3k → 17%THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC: $500 → 17%WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS DAY DINNER: $1k → 9%WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS DAY DINNER: $1k → 9%WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS DAY DINNER: $1k → 9%WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS DAY DINNER: $1k → 9%WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS DAY DINNER: $1k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $250k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $105k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $100k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $100k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $100k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $100k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $50k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $15k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $13k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $10k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $10k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $9k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $5k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $5k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $5k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $1k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $1k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $1k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $1k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $1k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $1k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
TN
NC
DC
AL

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 — 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.9M · 43 repeat orgs$104k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

43 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
15

Total granted

$4.9M
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+15%

Still filing today

93%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthCivil RightsOther

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

  • CC
    Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +21%
  • NL
    NEIGHBORS LINK CORP
    5× · 2020–2024 · $879k · revenue +153%
  • SA
    SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • BU
    BROWN UNIVERSITY - BROWN ANNUAL FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • IU
    ISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -42%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +6%

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.

1
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
4
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
8
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Little Theatre of Fall River Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Public Library OperationsCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …School District FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterLgbtq+ Community SupportPregnancy Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersJewish Community Organizati…Community College Foundatio…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Local History MuseumsIndependent K-12 SchoolsHealth Access Advocacy and …Policy Research and AdvocacyChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr20%33%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr15%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr20%54%20–35yr14%10%35–55yr15%31%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/59
the rest of the field
11%
5,091/46,149

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.

04the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/57
Grantees still filing
43/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc — $1,510,000 · Arts & CultureCaramoor Center for Music & the Ar…JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INCFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $135,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC+7 more — $47,000 · Arts & CultureDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $941,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARIT…ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $150,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATIO…+1 more — $17,000 · PhilanthropyNEIGHBORS LINK CORP — $878,500 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORS LINK COR…THE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE FUND OF…+6 more — $29,000 · Human ServicesCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $790,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-W…SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $250,000 · EducationSUCCESS A…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $190,000 · EducationGEORGETOW…FRIENDS OF HILLTOP HANOVER FARM AND ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC — $22,225 · EducationStuyvesant High School Alumni Association Inc — $20,000 · Education+5 more — $23,000 · EducationHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL — $130,000 · OtherHARVARD BUSI…FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC — $82,500 · OtherFEEDING WEST…KATONAH VILLAGE LIBRARY — $51,000 · OtherKATONAH VILL…TEMPLE SHAARAY TEFILA OF WESTCHESTER — $25,000 · OtherBROWN UNIVERSITY - BROWN ANNUAL FUND — $25,000 · OtherAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · OtherAMERICARES F…COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER INC — $68,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY CE…NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $60,000 · OtherNORTHERN WES…Westchester Land Trust Inc — $25,000 · Other+20 more — $114,150 · Other+20 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · Community ImprovementDESTINATION 39 3 INC — $11,000 · Community ImprovementTHE RECORDER NEWS INC — $5,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$1,842,000Philanthropy$1,108,000Human Services$982,500Food & Nutrition$790,000Education$505,225Other$656,150Community Improvement$116,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc — $1,510,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $941,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORS LINK CORP — $878,500 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $790,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $190,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC — $150,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $135,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC — $82,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC — $75,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER INC — $68,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKATONAH VILLAGE LIBRARY — $51,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetKATONAH MUSEUM OF ART — $25,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetWestchester Land Trust Inc — $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF HILLTOP HANOVER FARM AND ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC — $22,225 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetStuyvesant High School Alumni Association Inc — $20,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BARTH SYNDROME FOUNDATION — $17,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBEDFORD AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $12,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetDOROT INC — $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDESTINATION 39 3 INC — $11,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetRIVERKEEPER INC — $11,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBEDFORD 2030 INC — $10,150 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF WESTCHESTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLEWISBORO LAND TRUST INC — $6,500 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEAST COAST ASSISTANCE DOGS INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetREHABILITATION THROUGH THE ARTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKATONAH-BEDFORD HILLS VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORP — $5,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKATONAH FIRE DEPARTMENT — $5,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF JOHN JAY HOMESTEAD — $5,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBEDFORD PLAYHOUSE INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMUSIC MAKER FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RECORDER NEWS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS DAY DINNER INC — $5,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetSPCA OF WESTCHESTER INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLATINO U COLLEGE ACCESS INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Peckham Family Founda…The New York Communit…Jewish Communal FundYvonne & Leslie Polla…The ZelnickBelzberg C…The Nancy and Paul Ro…The Richardson Founda…Jandon FoundationTd Charitable Foundat…Louis and Anne Abrons…Olberg McFall Family …The Ralph and Ricky L…
Peckham Family FoundationNY30.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Peckham Family Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Yvonne & Leslie Pollack Family Foundation Inc · The ZelnickBelzberg Charitable Trust · The Nancy and Paul Ross Foundation Inc · The Richardson Foundation · Jandon Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation Inc · Olberg McFall Family Foundation Inc · The Ralph and Ricky Lauren Family Foundation Inc

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 organization Bauer Family 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
20report 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

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 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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