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Ray & Charlotte Baldauf Charitable Trust

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.

$360k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Arts & Culture$324kHealth$300kYouth Development$240kPhilanthropy$135kEducation$121kEmployment$120kHousing & Shelter$114kScience & Tech$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $332k
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$40,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
OSU MARION GREG ROSE$30,000
OSU #315922$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$20,000
MARION TECHNICAL COLLEGE$20,000
MARION PALACE THEATER$20,000
TRI-RIVERS CAREER CTR$20,000
MARION COMMUNITY FDN$20,000
Individual grant recipient$19,000
IBERIA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$13,500
ASPIRE MINISTERIES$12,000
RIVER VALLEY MUSIC BOOSTERS$12,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,158
DAYSPRING CHURCH$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ASPIRE MINISTERIES: $12k → 17%ASPIRE MINISTERIES: $12k → 17%LOVE INC: $10k → 17%LOVE INC: $10k → 17%LOVE INC: $10k → 17%ASPIRE MINISTERIES: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 26 repeat orgs$141k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against -32% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
8

Total granted

$1.6M
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
-32%

Still filing today

19%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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 ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionEducationOther

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

  • CS
    CENTER STREET COMMUNITY CLINIC INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $150k · revenue +33%
  • OH
    OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $125k · revenue +29%
  • LA
    LIFECARE ALLIANCE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • CS
    CENTER ST COMMUNITY CLINIC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $25k
  • PT
    PALACE THEATER
    3× · 2023–2025 · $20k
  • ST
    STENGEL TRUE MUSEUM
    one grant, 2024 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Community Clinic of Southwest Missouri

The mission of the community clinic of southwest missouri is to improve the health of people in our community without access to medical, dental, or mental health care.

2
Alliance Community Health Foundation

The alliance community health foundation's mission is to support the health care needs of the residents of alliance, ohio.

Health
3
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
4
The Healthcare Connection Inc

To provide quality, culturally sensitive and accessible primary health care services focusing on the medically underserved, underinsured, and uninsured residing in northern hamilton county and surrounding areas.

5
Community Foundation of Lorain County

The community foundation responds to the changing needs of the community by making grants to local nonprofit organizations, awarding scholarships to help local students, working together with donors to build community endowment and…

Philanthropy
6
Indiana Council of Community Mental Health Centers Inc

To serve as advocates for the needs and interests of community-based mental health providers.

7
Community Counseling Center

The misson of the community counseling center is to promote the mental and emotional well-being of our community.

Human Services
8
Physicians Care Connection

Physicians careconnection (pcc) mission is to optimize health for individuals experiencing healthcare challenges due to personal and systemic barriers.

9
Springvale Health Centers Inc

Provide high quality integrated healthcare services to consumers and agencies primarily in tuscarawas and carroll counties.

Health
10
Marin Community Clinic

To improve the health of our patients and community by providing high quality, cost-effective, culturally sensitive, patient-centered health care.

Health
11
Emerge Ministries Inc

To help people discover a lifestyle of meaning joy and fulfillment through treatment and training. emerge ministries inc. is devoted to serving our clients. this service encompasses a biblically based mental health center with…

Human Services
12
Coalition of Care Greater Cincinnati

Coalition of Care of Greater Cincinnati exists to mobilize churches and to inspire volunteers to care for vulnerable children and fragile families.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center Street Community Clinic Inc and the most unlike its peers is Evelyn E Walter Foundation. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 38 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB — $220,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBIndividual grant recipient — $155,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTRI-RIVERS CAREER CTR — $120,000 · OtherTRI-RIVERS CAREER CTRTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYMARION PALACE THEATER — $90,000 · OtherMARION PALACE THEATERMARION TECHNICAL COLLEGE — $87,000 · OtherMARION TECHNICAL COLLEGEAMERICAN RED CROSS — $71,158 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSIndividual grant recipient — $55,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $48,000 · Other+21 more — $363,756 · Other+21 moreCENTER STREET COMMUNITY CLINIC INC — $150,000 · HealthCENTER STR…COMMUNITY COUNSELING AND WELLNESS CENTERS INC — $15,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY …MARION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $125,074 · PhilanthropyOHIO HISTORY CONNECTION — $125,000 · Arts & CultureASPIRE MINISTRIES INC — $34,000 · Human ServicesLOVE INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesLIFECARE ALLIANCE — $50,000 · Food & NutritionRIVER VALLEY MUSIC BOOSTERS INC — $12,000 · Education
Other$1,310,114Health$165,000Philanthropy$125,074Arts & Culture$125,000Human Services$64,000Food & Nutrition$50,000Education$12,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCENTER STREET COMMUNITY CLINIC INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMARION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $125,074 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetOHIO HISTORY CONNECTION — $125,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLIFECARE ALLIANCE — $50,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetASPIRE MINISTRIES INC — $34,000 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetLOVE INC — $30,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY COUNSELING AND WELLNESS CENTERS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEVELYN E WALTER FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budget
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 CENTER STREET COMMUNITY CLINIC INC
  • Who funds MARION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION
  • Who funds LIFECARE ALLIANCE
  • Who funds ASPIRE MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds LOVE INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY COUNSELING AND WELLNESS CENTERS INC
  • Who funds RIVER VALLEY MUSIC BOOSTERS INC
  • Who funds EVELYN E WALTER FOUNDATION

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.

Warren Brown Family FoundationOH13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Warren Brown Family Foundation · 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 Ray & Charlotte Baldauf 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%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 · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ray & Charlotte Baldauf Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Ray & Charlotte Baldauf Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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