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Oscar Baur Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$24k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,500
Organizations funded a year
5 to 14
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$416k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Oscar Baur Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementEmploymentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$24k7%
FY202414$24k0%
FY202313$24k46%
FY202211$27k36%
FY20218$25k38%
FY20205$22kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$34kHuman Services$31kYouth Development$24kArts & Culture$21kRecreation & Sports$18kHealth$9kEmployment$4kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($16k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Oscar Baur Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTerre Haute Boys & Girls Club: $24,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetRose-Hulman Institute of Technology: $23,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTerre Haute Children's Museum Inc: $20,250 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTerre Haute Women's Club Inc: $18,500 over 5y, 18% of budgetWabash Valley Family Sports Center Inc: $17,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCatholic Charities Terre Haute Inc: $8,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHamilton Center Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWabash Valley Goodwill Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCouncil on Domestic Abuse Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWabash Valley Breast Cancer Survivors Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetLight House Mission Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHappiness Bag Players Inc: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTerre Haute Area Meals on Wheels Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Gregory L Gibson Charitable Foundation IncIN24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Oscar Baur Foundation

How much does Oscar Baur Foundation give?
Oscar Baur Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $24,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Oscar Baur Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Human Services (21%), Youth Development (16%).
Who are Oscar Baur Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Terre Haute Boys & Girls Club ($24k), Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology ($23k), Terre Haute Children's Museum Inc ($20k).
Does Oscar Baur Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Oscar Baur Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Oscar Baur Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gregory L Gibson Charitable Foundation Inc, Max L Gibson & Jacqueline Gibson Foundation, Frederick R Benson Trust.
Where is Oscar Baur Foundation based?
Oscar Baur Foundation is based in IN.

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 19 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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