How much does Charles D & Mary a Bauer Foundation give?

Charles D & Mary a Bauer Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $1,375,304 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Charles D & Mary a Bauer Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Health (18%), Arts & Culture (14%).

Who are Charles D & Mary a Bauer Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University at Buffalo Foundation Inc ($517k), Artpark & Company Inc ($378k), Museum of Ventura County ($322k).

Does Charles D & Mary a Bauer Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Charles D & Mary a Bauer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Charles D & Mary a Bauer Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, First Niagara Foundation, The John R Oishei Foundation.

Where is Charles D & Mary a Bauer Foundation based?

Charles D & Mary a Bauer Foundation is based in NY.

Charles D & Mary a Bauer Foundation

Charles D & Mary a Bauer Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Charles D & Mary a Bauer Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.4M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$164k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.6MHealth$1.3MArts & Culture$1.1MHuman Services$421kCrime & Legal$375kReligion$350kRecreation & Sports$301kPublic Safety & Disaster$151kOther$0

02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $10k
$10k–50k13 grants · $349k
$50k–250k12 grants · $1.0M

$45,955

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ARTPARK	$164,229
UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION	$104,913
CANISIUS HIGH SCHOOL	$104,913
Individual grant recipient	$100,000
GLOBAL PEHT CORP	$82,114
NEW POND FARM EDUCATION SYSTEM	$81,148
LOYOLA BLAKEFIELD HIGH SCHOOL	$66,851
HILLSDALE COLLEGE	$65,000
MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT CATHOLIC SCH	$65,000
HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION VENTURA CTY	$61,634
MISSION BASILICA	$60,100
VENTURA BOTANICAL GARDENS	$60,000
BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE	$45,955
MUSEUM OF VENTURA COUNTY	$40,000
AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE	$35,000

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 (FY17–23, $257k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Charles D & Mary a Bauer Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 36% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 33%.

Charles D & Mary a Bauer Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.7M · 47 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.7M

$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+7%

Still filing today

47%

39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $571k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureCrime & LegalReligionOther

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

UA
University at Buffalo Foundation Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $517k · revenue +27%
ARTPARK & COMPANY INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $378k · revenue +40%
DU
D'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY
4× · 2017–2021 · $225k · revenue +23%

Funded once

BESTSELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC
one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +11%
OL
OUR LADY OF MERCY REGIONAL
one grant, 2017 · $59k
BH
BAILEY-BOUSHAY HOUSE
one grant, 2018 · $59k

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.

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

Manhattanville University

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

Education

Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education

Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health

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

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

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

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

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

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

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ecmc Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Benaroya Research Institute At Virginia. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 136 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)

62/64

Grantees still filing

38/64

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,311,554Education$1,344,816Arts & Culture$557,820Crime & Legal$365,491Health$352,793Human Services$265,517Environment$170,500

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.

Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY31.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · First Niagara Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Baird Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Osc Charitable Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Tower Family Fund Inc · The Western New York Foundation · The Tyrone Heritage Foundation · Scott Bieler Foundation Inc · The Frank G Raichle Foundation

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 Charles D & Mary a Bauer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles D & Mary a Bauer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get 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

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