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David S Baum Foundation Inc

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.

$423k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$456kPublic Benefit$383kHealth$344kHuman Services$125kEducation$123kArts & Culture$107kEnvironment$64kHousing & Shelter$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $260k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER$50,000
YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION$50,000
TURNING POINT USA$35,000
Individual grant recipient$27,900
MMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC$20,000
DYSLEXIA CENTER OF AUSTIN$20,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$20,000
JUDICIAL WATCH$20,000
UNITED WAY BLACKHAWK REGION$17,000
HEALTHNET OF ROCK COUNTY$10,000
ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY$10,000
SALVATION ARMY FT MYERS AREA COMMAND$10,000
GIFTS MEN'S SHELTER$10,000
KIDS MEALS INC$10,000
AGRACE FOUNDATION (JANESVILLE HOSPICE)$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, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FOSTER VILLAGE: $20k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $6k → 10%FOSTER VILLAGE: $5k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $5k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $5k → 10%GOD IS FAITHFUL TEMPORARY SHELTER: $20k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $5k → 10%GIFTS MEN'S SHELTER: $10k → 10%GIFTS MEN'S SHELTER: $10k → 10%GIFTS MEN'S SHELTER: $10k → 10%KIDS MEALS INC: $10k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $10k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $10k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $5k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $5k → 16%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

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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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 41 repeat orgs$258k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
18

Total granted

$1.8M
$182k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+14%

Still filing today

76%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
EducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthEnvironmentOther

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

  • YA
    Young America's Foundation
    4× · 2021–2024 · $205k · revenue +5%
  • TP
    TURNING POINT USA INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $135k · revenue +107%
  • HO
    HEALTHNET OF ROCK COUNTY INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $125k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • AE
    AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCHgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +40%
  • TB
    THE BLEXIT FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -91%

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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Furman University

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.

Education
3
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
4
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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5
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
6
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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7
R Street Institute

The r street institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public-policy research organization ("think tank"). our mission is to engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government. (continued on…

Education
8
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
9
Uatx

Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…

Education
10
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
11
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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12
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Freedom Watch Inc Center for Economic Justice. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Independent K-12 SchoolsUnited Way AffiliatesYouth Development ServicesLocal History MuseumsAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity Arts CentersFood Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …
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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%21%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/52
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,513

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

51 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. 51 of the 66 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
31/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Young America's Foundation — $205,000 · OtherYoung America's FoundationDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER — $165,000 · OtherDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTERTURNING POINT USA INC — $135,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCIndividual grant recipient — $82,398 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPROJECT VERITAS — $70,000 · OtherPROJECT VERITASSALVATION ARMY — $50,000 · OtherDUCHESNE ACADEMY OF THE SACRED HEART — $45,000 · Other+32 more — $477,500 · Other+32 moreTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $90,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE…JUDICIAL WATCH INC — $80,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WAT…CATO INSTITUTE — $20,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITU…MELANIE RYCHLIK FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Public BenefitMELANIE RYCH…Texas 2036 — $10,000 · Public Benefit+2 more — $13,000 · Public Benefit+2 moreDYSLEXIA CENTER OF AUSTIN — $80,000 · EducationDYSLEXIA C…PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationPRAGER UNI…HILLSDALE COLLEGE — $20,500 · EducationHILLSDALE …RELIGIOUS FREEDOM INSTITUTE INC — $20,000 · EducationRELIGIOUS …YOUTHENTITY — $17,000 · EducationYOUTHENTIT…San Francisco Nativity Academy — $10,000 · EducationAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND INC — $8,000 · Education+2 more — $10,000 · EducationHEALTHNET OF ROCK COUNTY INC — $125,000 · HealthVALLEY VIEW HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $23,000 · Health+1 more — $1,500 · HealthGOD IS FAITHFUL TEMPORARY SHELTER INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER VILLAGE INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc — $21,000 · Human ServicesROARING FORK CONSERVANCY — $60,000 · EnvironmentMemorial Park Conservancy Inc — $30,000 · EnvironmentROTARY BOTANICAL GARDENS INC — $4,100 · EnvironmentDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC — $36,500 · Animals
Other$1,229,898Public Benefit$228,000Education$195,500Health$149,500Human Services$136,000Environment$94,100Animals$36,500

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 budgetYoung America's Foundation — $205,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER — $165,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $135,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHNET OF ROCK COUNTY INC — $125,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDYSLEXIA CENTER OF AUSTIN — $80,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT VERITAS — $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROARING FORK CONSERVANCY — $60,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetGOD IS FAITHFUL TEMPORARY SHELTER INC — $50,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC — $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC — $36,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMemorial Park Conservancy Inc — $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM WATCH INC CENTER FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE — $30,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTER VILLAGE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetKANDU INDUSTRIES INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERRORISM FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetVALLEY VIEW HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $23,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc — $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $20,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRELIGIOUS FREEDOM INSTITUTE INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BLEXIT FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ARTS CAMPUS AT WILLITS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY BLACKHAWK REGION INC — $17,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYOUTHENTITY — $17,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES — $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMELANIE RYCHLIK FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetCONVENTION OF STATES ACTION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Nativity Academy — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTexas 2036 — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOR KIDS AND COUNTRY INC — $6,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetThe Westview School Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAGLE FORUM FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Periwinkle Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROTARY BOTANICAL GARDENS INC — $4,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United Way of Lee County Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Donors Trust IncGreater Houston Commu…Community Foundation …Bradley Impact Fund I…Baird Foundation IncJanesville Foundation…Jpc FoundationEbs FoundationBailey Family Foundat…Farrell Family Founda…Aspen Community Found…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Donors Trust IncVA16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Janesville Foundation Inc · Jpc Foundation · Ebs Foundation · Bailey Family Foundation Inc · Farrell Family Foundation · Aspen Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 David S Baum Foundation Inc 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 · 40%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The United Way of Lee County Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 66 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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