· Private foundation
James and Dorothy Baer Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $310k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNG LIFE | $50,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH FLORIDA | $50,000 |
| BARNABAS CENTER | $50,000 |
| HIRSHBERG FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WHEELS OF SUCCESS | $40,000 |
| DRESS FOR SUCCESS | $40,000 |
| THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES | $40,000 |
| MICAH'S PLACE | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE | $40,000 |
| THISTLE FARMS | $30,000 |
| AMELIA ISLAND CHAMBER MUSIC | $25,000 |
| NASSAU COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING | $25,000 |
| PARTNERS FOR CARE | $20,000 |
| PINKY PROMISE FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| AMELIA ISLAND MUSEUM OF HISTORY | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $368k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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
- BCBARNABAS CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $147k · revenue +76%
- WOWHEELS OF SUCCESS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +22%
- MPMicahs Place Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $128k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- HFHIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FORone grant, 2021 · $50k
- HFHIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESone grant, 2024 · $50k
- ACAMRICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICEone grant, 2024 · $40k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wheels of Success Inc and the most unlike its peers is Amelia Island Museum of History Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 28 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 BARNABAS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELS OF SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds Micahs Place Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds HIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANC ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds AMELIA ISLAND CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds NASSAU COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of North Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Amelia Island Museum of History 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 Rayonier Advanced Materials Foundation Inc · Rose M & Robert W Stubbs Foundation · Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 James and Dorothy Baer Foundation 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.
- Micahs Place Inc — 32% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Amelia Island Museum of History Inc — 0% 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.