· Public charity
Baylor University
The mission of BAYLOR UNIVERSITY is to educate men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and christian commitment within a caring community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 97 grants below total $8,575,016 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $442,533,209 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $433,958,193 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k52 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k29 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+7 grants · $4.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Gallup Inc | $2,450,127 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $561,109 |
| Waco Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Collaborative Inc | $550,000 |
| UTSA | $421,589 |
| Center for Open Science | $333,284 |
| Texas A&M Sponsored Research Services | $321,216 |
| Virginia Tech | $293,821 |
| Brazos Valley Public Broadcasting | $159,101 |
| University of Texas At Austin | $158,207 |
| Colorado State University | $121,120 |
| Wheaton College | $120,974 |
| Hampton University | $107,003 |
| Georgia Tech Research Corp | $89,236 |
| Texas A&M Sponsored Research Services | $84,575 |
| Purdue University | $82,340 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
101 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PFPEPSICO FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $21M · revenue ×58
- BCBaylor College of Medicine2× · 2017–2018 · $4.0M · revenue +67%
BRAZOS VALLEY PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDA9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +14% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- CDChartwells Dining Servicesone grant, 2021 · $17M
- BIBrazos Innovation Partnersone grant, 2024 · $156k
- TATEXAS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $151k · revenue +69%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
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…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
Texas wesleyan university, guided by its deep methodist heritage, provides transformational learning experiences and research opportunities to a diverse group of students to develop their full potential as individuals and as members of the…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wheaton College and the most unlike its peers is Pepsico Foundation 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.
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 49 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
127 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. 127 of the 237 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds PEPSICO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BRAZOS VALLEY PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDA ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds WACO ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR OPEN SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds WACO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Baylor Research Institute ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Waco Foundation · Cooper Foundation · United Way of Waco-McLennan County · Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation · Clifton Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · The Fentress Foundation · Ascension Providence · Folds of Honor Foundation · Margaret Cb & S Spencer N Brown Foundation Inc · American Chemical Society · Once Upon a Time 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 organization Baylor University 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.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Seton Hall University — 1% of income from government
- Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business — 0% of income from government
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.