· Private foundation
Gail L Baird 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
95% of Gail L Baird Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Gail L Baird Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $252k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k14 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $50,000 |
| OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| MOFFITT CANCER CENTER | $50,000 |
| USF FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK | $8,497 |
| DISCOVERY DAYS PRESCHOOL | $2,100 |
| CARDINAL MOONEY HIGH SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $800 |
| SARASOTA HIGH SCHOOL | $558 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $500 |
| SAFE PLACE AND RAPE CRISIS CENTER | $500 |
| SECOND HEART HOMES INC | $500 |
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, $527) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 23% of Gail L Baird Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +48% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2022, 9 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- TOTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC2× · 2019–2022 · $185k · revenue +20%
- COChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation2× · 2019–2021 · $80k · revenue +48%
ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC4× · 2017–2022 · $41k · revenue +150%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $340k
- OOCRAone grant, 2021 · $225k
- OOCRFAone grant, 2017 · $135k
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.
To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.
To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…
The primary exempt purpose of h. lee moffitt cancer center and research institute foundation, inc. is to raise, maintain and hold funds which are primarily used for the benefit of h. lee moffitt cancer center and research institute, inc.…
The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…
The mission of the organization is to advocate for sarcoma patients by funding research and by increasing awareness about the disease. the organization raises money to privately fund grants for sarcoma researchers and conducts education…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…
The primary purpose of the h. lee moffitt cancer center and research institute hospital, inc. ("hospital") is to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer.
Community impact powered by philanthropy.
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
To provide educational displays and information on art in our area and to provide scholarships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Central & Northern Florida and the most unlike its peers is The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust. 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 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 79 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 GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE PARENTTEACHER ORGANIZATION (PTO) ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - MANASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds University of South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL & NORTHERN FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Arthur S Karp Family Foundation Inc · The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · Seidman Family Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Gail L Baird 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — 23% of income from government
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% 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.