Skip to content

· Private foundation

John P & Lisa Baron Family Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$83k
Granted FY2018
24
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$38k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2018 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k23 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $38k
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$25k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREENTOPIA$38,000
SUSAN B ANTHONY MUSEUM$5,000
HARLEY SCHOOL$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$5,000
HARLEY SCHOOL$3,000
GEVA$3,000
GREENTOPICS$2,700
MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN CENTER$2,500
GREENTOPIA$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
BOY SCOUTS SENECA WATERSWAY CO$2,000
WILMONT CANCER CENTER$1,275
SUSAN B ANTHONY MUSEUM$1,000
RECOVERY FITNESS$1,000
02The need
02

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 (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%RECOVERY FITNESS: $1k → 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.
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 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
Rochester General College of Health Careers

The rochester general college of health careers is dedicated to preparing adult learners with the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to pursue health careers, advanced education, and lifelong learning.

Education
2
Rochester General Health System

Rochester general health system, provides patient care, senior housing, laboratory services, and community outreach to residents and other clients in monroe county, new york and several surrounding counties.

Health
3
One Roc Inc

The company's mission is to create new jobs, increase regional wealth, raise regional gdp and enhance opportunity; to invest in a world-class economic development ecosystem where incumbent businesses are thriving, new firms are locating,…

Community Improvement
4
Rochester Academy of Science Charter School

Rochester academy of science charter school (the school) is a not-for-profit education corporation that operates kindergarten through 12th grades and is dedicated to providing quality education to a diverse body of students in the…

Education
5
Rochester Public Library Foundation

The foundation's mission is to raise private funds for educational and informational resources and projects in a manner that does not diminish the need for strong public funding, and to educate the community about the library's vital role…

Philanthropy
6
Rochester Public Library

To engage the community in life-long learning for all through equal access to information, technology, gathering spaces and expert staff.

Education
7
The Rockefeller University

The rockefeller university (the university) is a world renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics, and physics. the university's 73 laboratories conduct both clinical and basic…

Education
8
Rochester Arts & Science Academy Foundation

Rasa aims to develop active learners, well rounded individuals, and engaged world citizens. our teachers channel children's natural curiosity to develop lifelong inquirers prepared to thrive in a diverse world. as an international…

Education
9
Rochester Art Center

Rochester art center offers the opportunity for all people to understand and value the arts through innovative experiences with contemporary art. through world-class exhibitions and programs, we present a welcoming, integrated, and diverse…

Arts & Culture
10
The Montessori School of Rochester

To nourish the child's spirit, while fostering exploration, independence, and confidence. we strive to inspire a lifelong love of learning, while modeling grace, courtesy, and respect for self, others, and the earth.

—
11
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
12
Rochester Regional Health Foundation

To provide funds to or for the benefit of rochester regional health and affiliates by:a) soliciting, accepting, holding, investing, reinvesting and administering any gifts, bequests, devises, benefits of trusts and propery of any sort,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Little Theatre Film Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Gardenaerial Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the 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 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE GARDENAERIAL INC: $40,500 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF THE GARDENAERIAL INCTHE HARLEY SCHOOL: $8,000 · OtherTHE HARLEY SCHOOLSUSAN B ANTHONY MUSEUM: $6,375 · OtherSUSAN B ANTHONY MUSEUMGEVA: $3,650 · OtherGEVAGREENTOPICS: $2,700 · OtherGREENTOPICSMARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $2,500 · OtherMARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INCIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBOY SCOUTS SENECA WATERSWAY CO: $2,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS SENECA WATERSWAY COWILMONT CANCER CENTER: $1,275 · Other+3 more: $1,450 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library: $350 · EducationROCOVERY FITNESS INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS ACADEMY INC: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE LITTLE THEATRE FILM SOCIETY INC: $150 · Arts & Culture
Recreation & Sports$40,500Other$30,450Education$10,350Human Services$1,000Youth Development$1,000Arts & Culture$150

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 budgetFRIENDS OF THE GARDENAERIAL INC: $40,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARLEY SCHOOL: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCOVERY FITNESS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS ACADEMY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITTLE THEATRE FILM SOCIETY INC: $150 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.

Rochester Area Community FoundationNY17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · The Florence M Muller Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 John P & Lisa Baron Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John P & Lisa Baron Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–10%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to John P & Lisa Baron Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to John P & Lisa Baron Family Foundation 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 17 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on John P & Lisa Baron Family’s filings →

    More from the funding graph