· Private foundation
Sylvan T Baer Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $133k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS (CHAI) | $50,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS | $43,000 |
| DALLAS JEWISH BURIAL FUND | $25,000 |
| AKIBA YAVNEH ACADEMY OF DALLAS | $25,000 |
| HILLEL OF DALLAS | $20,000 |
| DALLAS HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| MOISHE HOUSE | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–26, $166k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2026, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE4× · 2020–2026 · $133k · revenue +175%
- DHDALLAS HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION4× · 2019–2026 · $95k · revenue +115% · 32% of their budget
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS2× · 2020–2022 · $60k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OFone grant, 2023 · $50k
- UGURJ GREENE FAMILY CAMPone grant, 2021 · $50k
- TLTHE LEGACY SENIOR COMMUNITIES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2025 · $38k · revenue -4%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Denver academy of torah (the "school")provides education to students from kindergarten through high school. the school's mission is to nuture students to be torah-observant role models and future leaders through an intellectually rigorous…
To ensure a jewish future by challenging minds and nurturing souls with a focus on academic excellence and jewish learning.
Atlanta jewish academy is a college preparatory, co-educational, preschool-12th grade, independent jewish day school, guided by modern orthodox values and principles. we embody the ideals of community, tradition, individual development and…
To nurture the development of knowledgeable, caring and committed Jewish children in a dynamic learning environment. Through exceptional general and Judaic studies and Hebrew language immersion, students create a meaningful and joyous…
To instill in its students a personal love for and commitment tohashem, the study and practice of torah, halacha, and jewish values asa way of life, and a love for the state of israel and the jewishpeople.
The jewish high school of connecticut is dedicated to educate jewish youth for whom jewish values and traditions shape and guide their lives and for whom learning and responsible actions are foundational for achievement.
Jds is committed to providing an innovative academic program through a rigorous integrated, inquiry-based curriculum with general & judaic studies, empowering children to grow into capable, wise, and compassionate upstanders.
The Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas Foundation is operated to support Jewish Family Service of Dallas, Inc. (JFS). The Foundation provides general and restricted support to assist JFS in fulfilling its mission to provide…
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
Oakland Hebrew Day School is a Modern Orthodox Jewish Day School that welcomes families from the diverse Bay Area Jewish community. Our immersive curriculum, which takes an integrative approach to Judaic and general studies, prepares our…
The jewish day school of the lehigh valley is a nonprofit community school for primary-kindergarten to grade eight, that is dedicated to a holistic approach to education. the school is devoted to the development of bright, confident…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Center of Dallas and the most unlike its peers is Hillels of North Texas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 46 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds DALLAS HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS ↗
- Who funds AKIBA ACADEMY OF DALLAS ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE LEGACY SENIOR COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TORAH DAY SCHOOL OF DALLAS ↗
- Who funds AKIBAYAVNEH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MESORAH HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds The Conservative Jewish Day School of Dallas Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL OF DALLAS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds The Legacy at Home Inc ↗
- Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
- Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Dallas Jewish Historical Society ↗
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.
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
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 Sylvan T Baer Foundation 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.
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.