· Private foundation
Oscar Baur Foundation
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Terre Haute Children's Museum | $3,500 |
| Terre Haute Women's Club Inc | $3,500 |
| Terre Haute Boys & Girls Club | $3,500 |
| Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology | $3,000 |
| Catholic Charities of Terre Haute | $2,000 |
| Wabash Valley Family Sports Center | $2,000 |
| Hamilton Center Inc | $1,500 |
| Wabash Valley Breast Cancer Survivors Inc | $1,000 |
| Wabash Valley Goodwill Industries | $1,000 |
| Council on Domestic Abuse | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $750 |
| Terre Haute Meals on Wheels Inc | $500 |
| Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice of the Wabash Valley | $500 |
| Happiness Bag Inc | $250 |
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 (FY22–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 0% 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 +27% since the first grant, against -51% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- THTerre Haute Boys & Girls Club6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +25%
- RIRose-Hulman Institute of Technology6× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +63%
- THTERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- MMosaicone grant, 2023 · $750
- VCVigo County Drug Courtone grant, 2022 · $500
- THTERRE HAUTE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS INCone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue -51%
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 mission of Terre Haute Catholic Charities Foodbank is to feed the hungry in Clay, Greene, Knox, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion and Vigo counties through a network of emergency food distribution member agencies and engage our community in…
Education & Museum Operations
The mission of the Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce is to preserve, protect, and promote a business friendly envrionment free of obstacles to growth and development.
85 hope is inspired by the gospel to provide free primary healthcare services to uninsured, low-income residents of wabash county, indiana.
To enrich the lives of Tippecanoe County residents and visitors by collecting preserving researching and sharing our unique and diverse history
To construct, rehabilitate, sell and finance (0% interest) homes to families in the Wabash Valley, who would otherwise not be able to obtain home loans through conventional means.
Provide low income and transitional housing to those in need in the aurora, in area.
Wabash county habitat for humanity, inc. is a non-profit organization working in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to build decent, affordable housing.
Saint Joseph Home Health Care seeks to serve the poor, elderly, and disabled in a way that pleases God and honors the dignity of each person.
The Organization's mission is to assist shut-ins, usually the elderly, by delivering hot, nutritious and low-cost meals to them in their homes.
To conduct, support, encourage, and assist in the furthering of the Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce programs and projects, including the West Central IN Partnership
The Arc of Vigo County is committed to providing advocacy, parent support and training, respite services for families who have a family member at home with a developmental disability, a supported employment service for persons with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wabash Valley Goodwill Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hamilton Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 19 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 Terre Haute Boys & Girls Club ↗
- Who funds Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds TERRE HAUTE WOMEN'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Wabash Valley Family Sports Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Terre Haute Inc ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WABASH VALLEY GOODWILL INC ↗
- Who funds Wabash Valley Breast Cancer Survivors Inc ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHT HOUSE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPINESS BAG PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds TERRE HAUTE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF THE WABASH VALLEY INC ↗
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: Gregory L Gibson Charitable Foundation Inc · Max L Gibson & Jacqueline Gibson Foundation · Frederick R Benson Trust · United Way of the Wabash Valley Inc · Wabash Valley Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Rose Ladies Aid Society · Hollie & Anna Oakley Foundation Inc · The Hux Family Charitable Trust · Hulman & Company Foundation Inc · The George F and Marion D Johnson Charitable Trust
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 Oscar Baur Foundation 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.