How much does Baum Charitable Foundation Trust give?

Baum Charitable Foundation Trust reported 15 grants totaling $40,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Baum Charitable Foundation Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (34%), Education (22%), Arts & Culture (11%).

Who are Baum Charitable Foundation Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Hope Cancer Resources ($18k), Welcomehealth ($14k), The Gregory Kistler Treatment Center Inc ($11k).

Does Baum Charitable Foundation Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Baum Charitable Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Baum Charitable Foundation Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, Wal-Mart Foundation, Arvest Foundation.

Where is Baum Charitable Foundation Trust based?

Baum Charitable Foundation Trust is based in AR.

Baum Charitable Foundation Trust

Baum Charitable Foundation Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Baum Charitable Foundation Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$73kEducation$48kArts & Culture$24kHuman Services$19kHousing & Shelter$12kEnvironment$8kCrime & Legal$8kAnimals$7kOther$0

02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$795k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
HOPE CANCER RESOURCES	$5,000
BOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE OZARKS	$4,000
CIRCLE OF LIFE HOSPICE	$3,000
WELCOME HEALTH	$3,000
GREGORY KISTLER TREATMENT CENTER	$3,000
GIRL SCOUTS DIAMONDS OF AR OK TX	$2,625
SOAR AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM	$2,625
MAGDALENE SERENITY HOUSE	$2,500
NWA CHILDRENS SHELTER	$2,500
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES	$2,500
CASA OF NW ARKANSAS	$2,250
ARKANSAS IMAGINATION LIBRARY	$2,000
SYMPHONY OF NWA	$2,000
LOVING CHOICES PREGNANCY CENTERS	$1,800
NWA WOMENS SHELTER	$1,250

02The need

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 (FY21–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$216k · 29 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$216k

$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+361%

Still filing today

55%

27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentReligionOther

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

HC
Hope Cancer Resources
6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +33%
TG
THE GREGORY KISTLER TREATMENT CENTER INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +44%
MS
MAGDALENE SERENITY HOUSE INC
4× · 2022–2025 · $9k · revenue +182%

Funded once

SS
SUNSHINE SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT CENTE
one grant, 2022 · $6k
AC
ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S NORTHWEST INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +35%
FB
FAYETTEVILLE BAND BOOSTERS INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +674%

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.

Arkansas Repertory Theatre

To produce a diverse body of theatrical work of the highest artistic standards. with a focus on dramatic storytelling that illuminates the human journey, the theatre entertains, engages and challenges local and regional audiences of all…

Arts & Culture

Casa of North Arkansas

The organization and its volunteers serve as advocates for abused and neglected children.

Civil Rights

Southeast Arkansas Behavioral Healthcare

To create an environment where staff is conscientious to the behavioral health needs of the area in a manner which is client oriented, accessible, affordable, and quality driven.

Health

Southwest Arkansas Counseling & Mental Health Center Inc

Southwest Arkansas Counseling and Mental Health Center, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides counseling and mental health services to residents of Southwest Arkansas.

Health

South Arkansas Children's Coalition

The organization and its volunteers served as advocates for abused and neglected children. the nationwide organization has helped more than two million children.

Civil Rights

Baton Rouge Children's Advocacy Center

Baton rouge children's advocacy center serves abused children and their non-offending family members. services include forensic interviews, therapy services, and a family advocacy support program.

Youth Development

The Arkansas Center for Independence

Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities

Human Services

Northwest Arkansas Childrens Shelter Foundation

To support operations of northwest arkansas children's shelter

Human Services

Northeast Arkansas Children's Advocacy Center Inc

The northeast arkansas children's advocacy center provides a child appropriate, safe setting for children to tell their story of abuse.

Crime & Legal

Oregon Children's Theatre Company

The mission of oregon children's theater is to create exceptional theater experiences that transform lives. we do this by producing professional stage plays for young audiences, and through arts education classes and programs.

Arts & Culture

Knoxville Childrens Theatre Inc

Knoxville Childrens Theatre, Inc. produces meaningful theatrical productions for children and families and serves the community through outreach and educational programs.

Arts & Culture

Ballet Arkansas Inc

Provide world-class diverse innovative dance programming and education to arkansas and beyond.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Arkansas & North Louisiana Inc; the most unlike its peers is John Brown University. 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

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 48 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

22/22

Grantees still filing

16/22

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$149,061Health$40,570Human Services$21,994Arts & Culture$20,900Housing & Shelter$9,000Education$8,500Environment$7,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR32.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Wal-Mart Foundation · Arvest Foundation · McKinney C & a Charitable Trust · The Schmieding Foundation · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Willard & Pat Walker Charitable Foundation Inc · Excellerate Foundation Charitable Support · Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · The Claude and Betty Harris Foundation Inc

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 Baum Charitable Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Baum Charitable Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home