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Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15M
Granted FY2024still arriving
83
Grants FY2024still arriving
22
States reached
$3.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$19MEducation$10MCivil Rights$4.6MPublic Benefit$3.8MInternational$1.3MHuman Services$1.1MFood & Nutrition$871kArts & Culture$740kOther$0
02FY2024 · 83 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $941k
  • $50k–250k31 grants · $3.4M
  • $250k+12 grants · $11M
$50,000
Median grant
22
States reached
$259M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Democracy Forward Foundation$3,650,000
Interfaith Alliance$1,000,000
Good Faith Media$900,000
Southern Methodist University$900,000
Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty$710,000
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship$665,000
Fellowship Southwest$605,000
Simmons College of Kentucky$500,000
Mercer University$500,000
Together for Hope$450,000
Passport Inc$350,000
Pneumatrix (with the Center for Healthy Churches)$271,213
Duke Divinity School$240,000
Baptist Women in Ministry$200,000
Wilshire Baptist Church$200,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $983k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $11k → 7%Breckenridge Village of Tyler: $25k → 12%THE OTHER ONE'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%Light of Hope Immigration Law Center: $137k → 5%LIGHT OF HOPE IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $50k → 5%LIGHT OF HOPE IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $35k → 5%BAPTIST CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $400k → 16%BAPTIST CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $300k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 12% of Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 72% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 74%.

Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.9% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$34M · 71 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

71 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
33

Total granted

$34M
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+18%

Still filing today

65%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’24
ReligionEducationInternationalHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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

  • BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +24%
  • TC
    THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +19%
  • Southern Methodist University
    4× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • BT
    BAPTISTS TODAY DBA GOOD FAITH MEDIA
    one grant, 2022 · $975k
  • CB
    CENTRAL BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
    one grant, 2020 · $890k
  • YC
    Youth Cue
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
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.

1
Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

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2
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
3
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
4
Center of Theological Inquiry

The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…

Religion
5
Asbury Theological Seminary

Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…

Education
6
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
7
The King's University

The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.

Education
8
Council for Christian Colleges and Universities

The Council's mission is to advance the cause of Christ-centered higher education and to help our institutions transform lives by faithfully relating scholarship and service to biblical truth.

Education
9
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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10
East Texas Baptist University

East texas baptist university (etbu) was founded in 1912 as a fully accredited institution of higher education. affiliated with the baptist general convention of texas, etbu educates students by integrating biblical faith and learning to…

Education
11
Association for Biblical Higher Education

Abhe is the quality and credibility resource partner that connects efforts among christian postsecondary educational institutions and with others invested in serious bible learning that shapes a life of godly influence and service to the…

Education
12
American Baptist Theological Seminary dba American Baptist College

Is to provide educational opportunities for gifted students who have limited academic experiences and resources but unlimited potential for leadership in society.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbellsville University Inc; the most unlike its peers is Consumer Fund of Texas Inc. 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

79 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. 79 of the 138 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.

19
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/79
Grantees still filing
52/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COOPERATIVE BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP INC: $4,984,484 · OtherCOOPERATIVE BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP INCBAPTIST CENTER FOR ETHICS: $1,600,000 · OtherBAPTIST CENTER FOR ETHICSWOODLAND BAPTIST CHURCH: $1,323,000 · OtherWOODLAND BAPTIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $1,130,000 · OtherINTERFAITH ALLIANCE INC: $1,000,000 · OtherBAPTISTS TODAY DBA GOOD FAITH MEDIA: $975,000 · OtherWILSHIRE BAPTIST CHURCH: $962,500 · OtherGood Faith Media Inc: $900,000 · OtherCENTRAL BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $890,000 · Other+80 more: $8,779,194 · Other+80 moreBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $2,417,285 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITYTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $2,040,000 · EducationTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER …Southern Methodist University: $2,015,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist Univers…Simmons College of Kentucky Inc: $950,000 · EducationSimmons College of Kentuck…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $730,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYBSK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC: $662,500 · EducationBSK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY I…BAYLOR LINE FOUNDATION: $637,000 · EducationBAYLOR LINE FOUNDATION+10 more: $1,306,000 · Education+10 moreTHE INTERFAITH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $1,835,000 · ReligionTHE INTERFAI…FELLOWSHIP SOUTHWEST: $1,672,001 · ReligionFELLOWSHIP S…FAITH COMMONS: $325,000 · ReligionFAITH COMMON…THE REFORMATION PROJECT INC: $220,000 · ReligionGASTON CHRISTIAN CENTER: $215,000 · Religion+14 more: $686,000 · Religion+14 moreDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION: $3,650,000 · Crime & LegalDEMOCRACY…FirstDay Foundation: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesLIGHT OF HOPE IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $252,113 · Human Services+5 more: $91,000 · Human ServicesPASSPORT INC: $1,200,000 · Youth DevelopmentTOGETHER FOR HOPE: $450,000 · Community ImprovementHOPE MANIFEST INC: $290,000 · Community ImprovementFISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC: $200,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $25,000 · Community Improvement
Other$22,544,178Education$10,757,785Religion$4,953,001Crime & Legal$3,650,000Human Services$1,343,113Youth Development$1,200,000Community Improvement$965,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION: $3,650,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $2,417,285 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $2,040,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $2,015,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INTERFAITH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $1,835,000 over 3y, 61% of budgetFELLOWSHIP SOUTHWEST: $1,672,001 over 3y, 59% of budgetPASSPORT INC: $1,200,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetFirstDay Foundation: $1,000,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSimmons College of Kentucky Inc: $950,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetGood Faith Media Inc: $900,000 over 1y, 66% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $730,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBSK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC: $662,500 over 4y, 19% of budgetBAYLOR LINE FOUNDATION: $637,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetYOUTH CHOIRS INC DBA YouthCUE: $575,000 over 3y, 63% of budgetBaptist Women In Ministry Inc: $510,000 over 4y, 90% of budgetTOGETHER FOR HOPE: $450,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetFAITH COMMONS: $325,000 over 3y, 69% of budgetWORLD HUNGER RELIEF INSTITUTE: $300,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetHOPE MANIFEST INC: $290,000 over 3y, 66% of budgetEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $256,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHT OF HOPE IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $252,113 over 4y, 16% of budgetMISSION FRANKFORT CLINIC INC: $235,000 over 3y, 49% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $225,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REFORMATION PROJECT INC: $220,000 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetGASTON CHRISTIAN CENTER: $215,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetBRITE DIVINITY SCHOOL: $200,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetINVESTED FAITH INC: $200,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetFISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC: $200,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: $200,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA: $175,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLITERACY CONNEXUS INC: $160,000 over 3y, 62% of budgetUNITED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE TWIN CITIES: $160,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetJOEL GREGORY MINISTRIES: $150,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetCampbellsville University Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCULTIVATE ABUNDANCE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetIMPACTASSETSINC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mary's University: $140,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIGROS AID INC: $120,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetBAPTIST HISTORY & HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $115,000 over 4y, 51% of budgetCHRISTIAN LATINA LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $110,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetBRIGGS CENTER FOR FAITH AND ACTION: $108,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetJESSE C FLETCHER SEMINARY: $105,000 over 2y, 78% of budgetAfrica Exchange: $105,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND UNDERSTANDING: $90,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S EMERGENCY RELIEF INTERNATIONAL: $80,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN ETHICS TODAY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 68% of budgetQ CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: $68,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetHOSPITALITY APARTMENTS: $60,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budget
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.

  • Who funds DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
  • Who funds THE INTERFAITH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP SOUTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds PASSPORT INC ↗
  • Who funds FirstDay Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Simmons College of Kentucky Inc ↗
  • Who funds Good Faith Media Inc ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BSK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC ↗
  • Who funds BAYLOR LINE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH CHOIRS INC DBA YouthCUE ↗
  • Who funds Baptist Women In Ministry Inc ↗
  • Who funds TOGETHER FOR HOPE ↗
  • Who funds FAITH COMMONS ↗
  • Who funds WORLD HUNGER RELIEF INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds HOPE MANIFEST INC ↗
  • Who funds EASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LIGHT OF HOPE IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MISSION FRANKFORT CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE REFORMATION PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds GASTON CHRISTIAN CENTER ↗

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.

E Rhodes and Leona B …Lilly Endowment IncKeller Family Foundat…The Brown FoundationCiosChristian Mission Con…Communities Foundatio…Michael and Alice Kuh…Once Upon a Time Foun…Austin Community Foun…San Antonio Area Foun…The Community Foundat…
E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter FoundationPA22.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Keller Family Foundation · The Brown Foundation · Cios · Christian Mission Concerns · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Michael and Alice Kuhn Foundation · Once Upon a Time Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · San Antonio Area Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville 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 Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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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    How do I get to Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 138 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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