· Private foundation
Charles Lawson Bauer 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROUND TOP INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | $19,500 |
| ST ELIZABETH ANN SETON CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| M Deaton | $6,500 |
| A Matta | $6,500 |
| K Lamza | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +100% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- OMONE MIND4× · 2018–2021 · $68k · revenue +100%
HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC4× · 2018–2021 · $23k · revenue +64%- PP4L2× · 2019–2020 · $20k
Funded once
- SHSEARCH HOMELESS SERVICESone grant, 2023 · $10k
- ASA SHELTER FOR CANCER FAMILIESone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -85%
- DWDelta Waterfowl Foundationone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +11%
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.
Throw a Dog a Bone is an all-breed dog rescue located in Austin, TX. We focus on saving dogs primarily in the rural shelters in South Texas. Many of these shelters have no exposure and very few resources. Our mission is to rescue as many…
Rescue labrador retrievers from shelters, pounds, abandonment, and other situations, and place them in loving, caring homes.
Rescue of unwanted dogs
The mission of the organization is to raise funds to support texas charities selected by the founders and officers.
Houston BARC Foundation was formed to raise funds to improve existing Houston BARC facilities, to raise awareness of homeless animal prevention programs, and to make spay and neuter assistance programs more widely accessible to Houston…
Animal Rescue
Pet education, assistance and rescue program statewide (texas)
To rescue abandoned and abused animals and find permanent homes for them.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ptsd Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Bruce Cohen Memorial Cancer Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 68 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
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 ONE MIND ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC ↗
- Who funds ROUND TOP INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds A SHELTER FOR CANCER FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds Waller Dugout Booster Club ↗
- Who funds Feed The Need Missions ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA CTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BRUCE COHEN MEMORIAL CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN MINERAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON TENNIS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds KCEF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE DOG RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA ANIMAL RESCUE MISSION ↗
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Charles Lawson Bauer 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.
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.