· Private foundation
Helen Forde Gander and Mary a Baldwin Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOODLANDS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SEWICKLEY ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| CS KIM KARATE CHILD SAFETY PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR THEATER ARTS | $10,000 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF PITTSBURGH | $8,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $4,800 |
| AMERICAN HEROES FLAGPOLES FOUNDATIO | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against -16% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CENTER FOR THEATER ARTS5× · 2021–2025 · $53k · revenue +21%
- SASEWICKLEY ACADEMY5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +22%
- CJCR JRS CHIP4× · 2022–2025 · $32k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- LOLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -16%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTSone grant, 2024 · $2k
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.
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.
The channel islands ymca is a charitable organization providing programs based upon christian principles to people of all ages, races, religious beliefs and economic status, to promote youth development, healthy living and social…
God's word is the foundation for all learning. our curriculum and teaching method provides students a comprhensive application of scripture in all disciplines. our goal is to assist each student in developing a biblical world view by…
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
Woodinville montessori school is dedicated to the optimal intellectual, emotional, social, physical, ethical & spiritual development of each child using montessori methods.
To operate a private school for age 3 through eighth grade students.
The mission and purpose of the ymca is to serve the community by reaching out to everyone in the community in a spirit of inclusion and fellowship. ymcas put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit,…
Luria academy is a child-centered environment dedicated to academic excellence and a sophisticated knowledge of jewish text and jewish heritage. located in the prospect heights neighborhood of brookly, luria academy is a jewish…
Woodfield academy empowers students with diagnosed learning differences or developmental disorders to reach their maximum potential through an individualized education approach.
It is our mission to provide a montessori education that celebrates the individual gifts of the child, nurtures a passion for learning biblical principles and equips children for academic excellence and discipleship.
To provide an innovative and transformational k-12 learning community that empowers students with language-based learning disabilities.
Woodland hill montessori school - a diverse and engaging educational partnership of parents, teachers, children, and community - nurtures a child's love of learning and sense of social and personal responsibility using the child-centered…
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE CENTER FOR THEATER ARTS ↗
- Who funds WOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEWICKLEY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CR JRS CHIP ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION PIERRE SMITH MODELUS INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER VALLEY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIA ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Helen Forde Gander and Mary a Baldwin Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen Forde Gander and Mary a Baldwin Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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