Texas · Private foundation
Sylvan T Baer Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $188k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2026
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 71%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 12
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 2
- Total assets, FY2026
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 71% of the organizations Sylvan T Baer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 7 | $188k | 29% |
| FY2025 | 7 | $150k | 71% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $145k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $155k | 75% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $150k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $138k | 90% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $173k | 92% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $175k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2026.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Family Service of Dallas Inc Dba Jewish Family Service | $133,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Dallas Hebrew Free Loan Association | $95,000 | 4 | 32% |
| Jewish Community Center of Dallas | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Congregation Anshai Torah | $56,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Akiba Academy of Dallas | $45,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Anti-Defamation League | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Legacy Senior Communities Foundation | $37,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Temple Shalom | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Congregation Beth Torah | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Torah Day School of Dallas | $35,000 | 2 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Family Service of Dallas Inc Dba Jewish Family Service | $133,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Dallas Hebrew Free Loan Association | $95,000 | 4 | 32% |
| Jewish Community Center of Dallas | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Congregation Anshai Torah | $56,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Akiba Academy of Dallas | $45,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Anti-Defamation League | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Legacy Senior Communities Foundation | $37,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Temple Shalom | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Congregation Beth Torah | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Torah Day School of Dallas | $35,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Akibayavneh Academy | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Mesorah High School for Girls Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The University of Texas Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Conservative Jewish Day School of Dallas Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Dallas Jewish Burial Fund | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bikur Cholim of Dallas | $22,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hillel of Dallas | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jewish Children's Regional Service | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Dallas Friendship Circle Inc | $17,500 | 2 | 5% |
| Temple Emanu-El Foundation Inc | $16,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Legacy at Home Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Intown Chabad Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Moishe House | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Dallas Jewish Historical Society | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Maayan Chai Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Shearith Israel Endowment Fund | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Congreation Shearith Isreal Foundation | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Tiferet Israel | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hillels of North Texas | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Ut Chabad House | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($368k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sylvan T Baer Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas · The Jeff & Bonnie Whitman Charitable Foundation · Feinstein Family Foundation · Leo & Rhea Fay Fruhman Foundation · Mb and Edna Zale Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Ike & Fannie Sablosky Foundation W00768400 · Margot Rosenberg Pulitzer Foundation · The Mitchell L and Miriam Lewis Barnett Charitable Trust · Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust
How this is measured
About Sylvan T Baer Foundation
- How much does Sylvan T Baer Foundation give?
- Sylvan T Baer Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $188,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Sylvan T Baer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2026, its largest causes are Human Services (32%), Religion (21%), Education (15%).
- Who are Sylvan T Baer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2026: Jewish Family Service of Dallas Inc Dba Jewish Family Service ($133k), Dallas Hebrew Free Loan Association ($95k), Jewish Community Center of Dallas ($60k).
- Does Sylvan T Baer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sylvan T Baer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sylvan T Baer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dallas Jewish Community Foundation, Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas, The Jeff & Bonnie Whitman Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Sylvan T Baer Foundation based?
- Sylvan T Baer Foundation is based in TX.
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