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Joan & Milton Baxt Foundation Inc at a glance

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Joan & Milton Baxt Foundation Inc

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.

$180k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$218kEducation$97kHuman Services$59kArts & Culture$41kPhilanthropy$33kAnimals$1kInternational$500Housing & Shelter$500
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$348k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MidShore Meals Til Monday$150,000
Walters Art Museum$10,000
Nova Southeastern University$10,000
Cambridge Empowerment Center$5,000
No Kid Hungry$2,500
Jewish Adoption Foster Care$2,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH ADOPTION & FOSTER CARE: $7k → 13%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$390k · 7 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
10

Total granted

$390k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+44%

Still filing today

43%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationAnimalsFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • MM
    MIDSHORE MEALS TIL MONDAY INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $167k · revenue +109% · 32% of their budget
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +57%
  • SHARE OUR STRENGTH
    8× · 2018–2025 · $50k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • NK
    NO KID GOES HUNGRY
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • JA
    Jewish Adoption and Foster Care Options Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +44%
  • FH
    Federal Hill Prep PTO
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner
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2
Midwest Rett Syndrome Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Middle Ridge Animal Rescue Inc
Animals
4
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
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5
Carolines Kids Pet Rescue
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6
Aussie Rescue of the Mid Atlantic

Rescue & adopt Australian Shepherd Dogs

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7
Mid Missouri Malamute Rescue
Animals
8
Starfish Animal Rescue
Animals
9
Northbound Rescue Society

Canine and feline rescue including medical care transportation and alter to low income communities vetting and rehousing of animals from north western Mississippi to New England provided vetting to over 750 canines 50 felines. We also…

Animals
10
The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund
Education
11
The Mid-Atlantic Securities Traders Foun
Education
12
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mid Atlantic Scottish Terrier Education and Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 18 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MIDSHORE MEALS TIL MONDAY INC: $167,000 · Food & NutritionMIDSHORE MEALS TIL MONDAY INCSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $50,000 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTHWalters Art Museum: $40,500 · OtherWalters Art MuseumJewish Adoption Foster Care: $31,500 · OtherJewish Adoption Foster CareCambridge Empowerment Center: $11,000 · OtherCambridge Empowerment CenterFed Hil Prep PTO: $10,000 · OtherFed Hil Prep PTONO KID GOES HUNGRY: $10,000 · OtherNO KID GOES HUNGRY+5 more: $7,500 · OtherNova Southeastern University Inc: $79,803 · EducationNova Southeastern Un…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationMID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 · PhilanthropyJewish Adoption and Foster Care Options Inc: $6,500 · Human ServicesMID ATLANTIC SCOTTISH TERRIER EDUCATION AND RESCUE: $500 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC: $500 · Animals
Food & Nutrition$167,000Other$160,500Education$80,803Philanthropy$32,500Human Services$6,500Animals$1,000

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 budgetMIDSHORE MEALS TIL MONDAY INC: $167,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $79,803 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $50,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Adoption and Foster Care Options Inc: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROLAND PARK ANNUAL FUND INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC: $500 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.

  • Who funds MIDSHORE MEALS TIL MONDAY INC ↗
  • Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
  • Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
  • Who funds MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Adoption and Foster Care Options Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROLAND PARK ANNUAL FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds MID ATLANTIC SCOTTISH TERRIER EDUCATION AND RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Joan & Milton Baxt Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joan & Milton Baxt Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Joan & Milton Baxt Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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