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Sigmond & Marie P Baer Tr

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.

$25k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$276k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Sigmond & Marie P Baer Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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 arriving7$25k43%
FY20248$33k13%
FY20238$38k50%
FY20227$48k29%
FY20216$43k0%
FY20206$43k0%
FY20191$46k100%
FY20186$41k33%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$99kCommunity Improvement$70kHousing & Shelter$45kFood & Nutrition$40kEducation$29kHuman Services$28kRecreation & Sports$25kYouth Development$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of Sigmond & Marie P Baer Tr by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Leader Foundation$70,000741%
Center for Hearing & Speech$53,00042%
Interfaith Residence D/B/A Doorways$42,50060%
Food Outreach Inc$40,00080%
Memory Care Home Solutions$38,00061%
Lift for Life Academy Inc$31,30070%
Breakpoint Tennis and Life Skills A$10,00023%
The Oasis Institute$10,00020%
City Academy$5,00010%
The Little Bit Foundation$5,00010%
Logos Inc$5,00010%
Safer Waters in Memory - of Nicholas$2,50011%
Newburgh Interfaith Emergency Housing Inc$2,50010%
The Center for Hearing and Speech$2,50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($38k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Sigmond & Marie P Baer Tr supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLeader Foundation: $70,000 over 7y, 41% of budgetCenter for Hearing & Speech: $53,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetInterfaith Residence D/B/A Doorways: $42,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFood Outreach Inc: $40,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMemory Care Home Solutions: $38,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetLift for Life Academy Inc: $31,300 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBreakpoint Tennis and Life Skills A: $10,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetThe Oasis Institute: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCity Academy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Little Bit Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLogos Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSafer Waters in Memory - of Nicholas: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNewburgh Interfaith Emergency Housing Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Center for Hearing and Speech: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 14.

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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Pott Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Olive Dempsey Charitable Trust · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · St Louis Philanthropic Organization · Centene Foundation · Herbert and Adrian Woods Fdn · Express Scripts Foundation

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 Sigmond & Marie P Baer Tr

How much does Sigmond & Marie P Baer Tr give?
Sigmond & Marie P Baer Tr reported 7 grants totaling $25,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Sigmond & Marie P Baer Tr fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (28%), Community Improvement (20%), Housing & Shelter (13%).
Who are Sigmond & Marie P Baer Tr's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Leader Foundation ($70k), Center for Hearing & Speech ($53k), Interfaith Residence D/B/A Doorways ($43k).
Does Sigmond & Marie P Baer Tr fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sigmond & Marie P Baer Tr accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sigmond & Marie P Baer Tr?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater St Louis Inc, Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable.
Where is Sigmond & Marie P Baer Tr based?
Sigmond & Marie P Baer Tr is based in MN.

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 20 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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