· Private foundation
Robert J Bauer Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $774k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $723k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $167,000 |
| NORTHERN VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $167,000 |
| KARL SCHMITZ UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $100,000 |
| CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE | $88,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $67,000 |
| GOODWIN LIVING FOUNDATION | $67,000 |
| PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS SOCIETY (DC | $67,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $46,000 |
| GIVE DIRECTLY | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $40,000 |
| TERRAPRAXIS | $38,000 |
| BERNNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $36,000 |
| PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE FOUNDAT | $36,000 |
| DUNKARD BRETHREN CHURCH | $31,000 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO | $31,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
86 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 55 since wound down; 24 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, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $305k · revenue +98%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $277k · revenue +12%- CACLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $255k · revenue ×12
Funded once
Feeding Americagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +40%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
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To raise awareness about the potential to reduce environmental harm by shifting electricity use to particular times; to encourage the development and spread of common protocols for this practice.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
How this is measured
78 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. 78 of the 129 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.
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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: The George W Bauer Family Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Aetna Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert J Bauer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert J Bauer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Farmington River Watershed Association Inc: 69% of income from government
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
- Save the Sound: 37% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc: 11% of income from government
- New Jersey Future Inc: 7% of income from government
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc: 4% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: 3% of income from government
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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