· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $310k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH FLORIDA | $50,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $50,000 |
| HIRSHBERG FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BARNABAS CENTER | $50,000 |
| MICAH'S PLACE | $40,000 |
| THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE | $40,000 |
| WHEELS OF SUCCESS | $40,000 |
| DRESS FOR SUCCESS | $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 |
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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To inspire and empower students qualifying for need-based scholarships to become future community leaders through a rigorous middle school program coupled with ongoing graduate support.
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Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 28 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 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 METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of North Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Amelia Island Museum of History Inc ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James and Dorothy Baer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James and Dorothy Baer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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