· Private foundation
Melvin R Baum Private 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $162k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN LIFEPOINTS | $85,000 |
| FT MYERS AC CHURCH | $75,000 |
| MIDWEST FOOD BANK | $45,650 |
| Individual grant recipient | $27,200 |
| HARVEST CALL | $25,000 |
| MORTON APOSTOLIC CHURCH | $22,000 |
| INDEPENDENCE FUND | $15,000 |
| WE TRUST IN HIM | $14,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $12,800 |
| GATEWAY WOODS | $5,000 |
| SOUTH SIDE MISSION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PATHWAY MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| OSF FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| JUBILEE MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $754k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ACAPOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN LIFEPOINTS INC5× · 2020–2025 · $425k · revenue +55%
- MFMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP5× · 2020–2025 · $280k · revenue +38%
- TIThe Independence Fund Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- STSPREAD TRUTH MINISTRIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +55%
- OHONE HOPE MINISTRIESone grant, 2024 · $125
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.
provide christian counseling
Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.
Preach gospel to the faithful and spread the gospel to those who belief and the unbelief with a view to win souls for the kingdom of god.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Meet the growing demand among families for supplemental food in southern brazoria county.
Serve food to families and individuals in need.
Ministry is a cristian church focusing on spreading the word of god, humanitarian help, reaching out to communities in need, provide financial help, build new churches.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Christ centered ministry that provides food, rent, utility and medicine support for local individuals who are in need.
Provide housing and services to the elderly and infirmed in a manner that provides for the physical, mental, social, and spiritual welfare of the residents.
Employing and supporting trans-denominational ministries and counselors to teachindividuals and churches of any and all christian denomination globally though services conferences television and radio programs one on one counseling…
Equipping followers of christ to give wisely to advance his kingdom by inspiring biblical stewardship and generosity.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 32 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 APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN LIFEPOINTS INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds The Independence Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds WE TRUST IN HIM ↗
- Who funds APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN RESTMOR INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MORTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPREAD TRUTH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ILLINOIS RIDING THERAPY 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: Share Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Melvin R Baum Private Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Melvin R Baum Private Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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