· Private foundation
Louis W Baehr and Dolpha Baehr Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $119k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $111k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF OSAWATOMIE | $56,000 |
| MY FATHERS HOUSE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $54,945 |
| KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT ASSN | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $38,495 |
| USD # 416 LOUISBURG PUBLIC SCHOOL | $10,200 |
| PAOLA ASSOCIATION FOR CHURCH ACTION | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LIBRARY DISTRICT #2 OF LINN COUNTY- LACYGNE | $10,000 |
| MIAMI COUNTY CANCER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| USD #367 OSAWATOMIE PUBLIC SCHOOL | $8,600 |
| ALWAYS & FUREVER MIDWEST ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC | $8,000 |
| PRAIRIE VIEW EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| USD # 368 | $5,462 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,070 |
| KSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC | $5,000 |
| SPRING HILL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $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 (FY21–25, $448k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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
- LCLAKEMARY CENTER INC3× · 2021–2023 · $165k · revenue +25%
- MCMIAMI COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER INC3× · 2021–2023 · $100k · revenue +5%
- TKThe Kansas University Endowment Association5× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- ALAMERICAN LEGION POST 250 JOHN F HAND CHAPTERone grant, 2021 · $23k
- COCITY OF PAOLA FIRE DEPARMENTone grant, 2021 · $10k
- U3USD # 368 YELLOW RIBBON PROGRAMone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
The kansas humane society is a community resource for pets and people, dedicated to enhancing the welfare of all companion animals.
To bring expert care, peace of mind, comfort, guidance and hope to people who are affected by serious illness or by grief.
To provide shelter and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the 11 counties of southeast kansas.
To provide dynamic, culturally-sensitive, high quality behavioral healthcare to residents of chase, coffey, greenwood, lyon, morris, osage and wabaunsee counties in the most effective, caring and efficient manner.
To honor our elders by celebrating, empowering and serving older adults.
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…
Provide support for mennonite housing rehabilitation services, inc., which provides low-income housing for the elderly and disabled through hud housing programs that provide low-income families with ownership opportunities and the…
The organization owns and operates a nursing facility for the elderly and disabled.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safehome Inc and the most unlike its peers is Spring Hill Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 24. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
14 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. 14 of the 46 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 MY FATHERS HOUSE COMMUNITY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKEMARY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds MIAMI COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MIAMI COUNTY CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wildwood Outdoor Education Center ↗
- Who funds SPRING HILL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Always & Furever Midwest Animal Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds KSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOME INC ↗
- Who funds All for Moms Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HEART OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Greater Horizons · Dean E & Cleta J Smith Charitable Fund First Option Bank Trustee · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Ash Grove Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Louis W Baehr and Dolpha Baehr Charitable Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.