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Gail L Baird Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$252k
Granted FY2022
20
Grants FY2022
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

16
’17
10
’19
6
’20
7
’21
13
’22
5
’23
4
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$2.0MHealth$711kEducation$480kArts & Culture$169kFood & Nutrition$151kEmployment$27kAnimals$12kInternational$10kOther$0
02FY2022 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k14 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$50,000
MOFFITT CANCER CENTER$50,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER$50,000
OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH ALLIANCE$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
SECOND HEART HOMES INC$500
SAFE PLACE AND RAPE CRISIS CENTER$500
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 (FY21–21, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE TREY MANCINI FOUNDATION: $527 → 14%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
NY
SD
CA
CO
VA
NC
SC
DC
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 23% of Gail L Baird Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Gail L Baird Foundation Inclessmore 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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$781k · 17 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
37

Total granted

$781k
$1000k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+38%

Still filing today

59%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TO
    THE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC
    2× · 2019–2022 · $185k · revenue +20%
  • CO
    Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation
    2× · 2019–2021 · $80k · revenue +48%
  • ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $41k · revenue +150%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $340k
  • O
    OCRA
    one grant, 2021 · $225k
  • O
    OCRFA
    one grant, 2017 · $135k
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
Usf Research Foundation Inc

To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.

Education
2
Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc

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…

Education
3
H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute Foundation Inc

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.…

Health
4
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

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…

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5
Sarcoma Foundation of America

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…

Arts & Culture
6
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

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.

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7
The Florida State University Foundation Inc

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…

Education
8
H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Hospital Inc

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.

Health
9
Sarasota City Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
10
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc

Community impact powered by philanthropy.

Philanthropy
11
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

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…

Health
12
The Fine Arts Society of Sarasota Inc

To provide educational displays and information on art in our area and to provide scholarships.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Central & Northern Florida; 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.
05the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/38
Grantees still filing
28/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,020,479 · PhilanthropyGULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $185,000 · PhilanthropyTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC+2 more: $1,200 · PhilanthropyIndividual grant recipient: $340,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCARDINAL MOONEY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC: $252,500 · OtherCARDINAL MOONEY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL IN…OCRA: $225,000 · OtherOCRAOCRFA: $135,000 · OtherOCRFAURBAN OUTREACH CENTER OF NYC: $100,000 · OtherURBAN OUTREACH CENTER OF NYCMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $100,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERMOFFITT CANCER CENTER: $50,000 · Other+53 more: $189,967 · Other+53 moreChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $80,000 · EducationSOUTHSIDE PARENTTEACHER ORGANIZATION (PTO): $40,000 · EducationUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc: $25,000 · EducationTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC: $18,007 · EducationMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $50,000 · HealthSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL & NORTHERN FLORIDA: $13,000 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Health+4 more: $3,000 · HealthALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $41,242 · Food & NutritionGOODWILL INDUSTRIES - MANASOTA INC: $26,769 · EmploymentGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · International
Philanthropy$2,206,679Other$1,392,467Education$163,007Health$126,000Food & Nutrition$41,242Employment$26,769International$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,020,479 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $185,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $80,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $41,242 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHSIDE PARENTTEACHER ORGANIZATION (PTO): $40,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES - MANASOTA INC: $26,769 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC: $18,007 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL & NORTHERN FLORIDA: $13,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSarasota Contemporary Dance Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetURBANITE THEATRE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GREATER SARASOTA SERTOMA FOUNDATION: $700 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFLORIDA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOUIS AND GLORIA FLANZER PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TREY MANCINI FOUNDATION INC: $527 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCallaghan Tire Charity Pro Am Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSECOND HEART HOMES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNCOAST SPORTS CLUB INC: $360 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHI MU FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Gulf Coast Community …Publix Super Markets …The Arthur S Karp Fam…The Tillie Jennie & H…Seidman Family Founda…American Endowment Fo…Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL32.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Gail L Baird Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gail L Baird Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 79 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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