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Oscar Baur Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Oscar Baur Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$24k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$416k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Terre Haute Boys & Girls Club$3,500
Terre Haute Children's Museum$3,500
Terre Haute Women's Club Inc$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
Council on Domestic Abuse$1,000
Wabash Valley Breast Cancer Survivors Inc$1,000
Wabash Valley Goodwill Industries$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 19%Council on Domestic Abuse: $1k → 19%Council on Domestic Abuse: $1k → 19%Council on Domestic Abuse: $1k → 19%Council on Domestic Abuse: $500 → 19%Lighthouse Mission Inc: $500 → 19%Lighthouse Mission Inc: $500 → 19%Happiness Bag Inc: $250 → 19%Happiness Bag Inc: $250 → 19%Happiness Bag Inc: $250 → 19%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$144k · 15 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against -51% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
3

Total granted

$144k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
-51%

Still filing today

80%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TH
    Terre Haute Boys & Girls Club
    6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +25%
  • RI
    Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    6× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +63%
  • TH
    TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • M
    Mosaic
    one grant, 2023 · $750
  • VC
    Vigo County Drug Court
    one grant, 2022 · $500
  • TH
    TERRE HAUTE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue -51%
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.

04Its 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
Terre Haute Catholic Charities Foodbank Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
2
Vigo County Historical Society Inc

Education & Museum Operations

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3
Terre Haute Area Chamber of Commerce Inc

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.

—
4
85 Hope Inc

85 hope is inspired by the gospel to provide free primary healthcare services to uninsured, low-income residents of wabash county, indiana.

Health
5
Tippecanoe County Historical Association

To enrich the lives of Tippecanoe County residents and visitors by collecting preserving researching and sharing our unique and diverse history

Arts & Culture
6
Wabash Valley Habitat for Humanity

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.

Housing & Shelter
7
Heart House Inc

Provide low income and transitional housing to those in need in the aurora, in area.

Human Services
8
Habitat for Humanity International Wabash County Hfh

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.

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9
Saint Joseph Home Health Care

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.

Health
10
Homebound Meals Inc

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.

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11
Greater Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce

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

Environment
12
Arc of Vigo County Inc

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wabash Valley Goodwill Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 19 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
13/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology: $23,000 · OtherRose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyVigo County School Corporation: $10,750 · OtherVigo County School CorporationCatholic Charities Terre Haute Inc: $8,500 · OtherCatholic Charities Terre Haute IncIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · Other+4 more: $3,250 · Other+4 moreTerre Haute Boys & Girls Club: $24,000 · Youth DevelopmentTerre Haute Boys &…TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $20,250 · Arts & CultureTERRE HAUTE CHI…TERRE HAUTE WOMEN'S CLUB INC: $18,500 · Community ImprovementTERRE HAUTE WO…Wabash Valley Family Sports Center Inc: $17,500 · Recreation & SportsWabash Valley…HAMILTON CENTER INC: $5,000 · HealthWabash Valley Breast Cancer Survivors Inc: $3,500 · HealthVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF THE WABASH VALLEY INC: $500 · HealthCOUNCIL ON DOMESTIC ABUSE INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesLIGHT HOUSE MISSION INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesHAPPINESS BAG PLAYERS INC: $750 · Human ServicesWABASH VALLEY GOODWILL INC: $4,000 · Employment
Other$47,500Youth Development$24,000Arts & Culture$20,250Community Improvement$18,500Recreation & Sports$17,500Health$9,000Human Services$5,250Employment$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

Gregory L Gibson Char…Max L Gibson & Jacque…Frederick R Benson Tr…United Way of the Wab…Wabash Valley Communi…Duke Energy FoundationClara Fairbanks Found…Rose Ladies Aid Socie…Hollie & Anna Oakley …The Hux Family Charit…Hulman & Company Foun…The George F and Mari…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Oscar Baur Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oscar Baur Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%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
    1report 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.

    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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