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The Baier Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Animals$4kEnvironment$3kEducation$1kArts & Culture$625Community Improvement$500Youth Development$500Religion$500
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$35k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONSERVATION LAW CENTER$1,000
SCOUTING AMERICA NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL$500
OUR LADY OF MERCY CHURCH$500
HILLSDALE COLLEGGE$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%BOONE AND CROCKETT CLUB: $2k → 9%THEODORE ROOSEVELT ASSOCIATION: $250 → 6%ISLAND PRESS: $250 → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGGE: $250 → 14%VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY: $1k → 9%CONSERVATION LAW CENTER: $1k → 18%NATIONAL CONSERVATION LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $500 → 9%CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST: $100 → 6%OUR LADY OF MERCY CHURCH: $500 → 8%COSMOS CLUB: $375 → 14%CONSERVATION LAW CENTER: $500 → 18%BSA NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL: $500 → 8%SCOUTING AMERICA NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL: $500 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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MI
NY
IN
WV
VA
MD
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
Archbold Expeditions Inc

Archbold expeditions, inc.'s mission is to build and share the scientific knowledge needed to protect the life, lands, and waters of the heart of florida and beyond.

Unclassified
4
The Nature Institute
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5
Swan Valley Connections

Maintain the swan valley's unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.

Environment
6
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

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7
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
8
Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources

The organization pursues higher standards of news coverage of natural resources and the environment -- standards of accuracy, fairness, balance, depth and context.

Arts & Culture
9
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation

We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)

Environment
10
The Wildlife Society

The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.

Animals
11
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program Inc

Coastal bend bays & estuaries program is dedicated to protecting and restoring bays and estuaries of the texas coastal bend. coastal bend bays and estuaries remain a vital part of the environmental and economic landscape by preserving and…

Environment
12
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association

Hawk mountain sanctuary association's mission is to conserve birds of prey worldwide by providing leadership in raptor conservation science and education, and by maintaining hawk mountain sanctuary as a model observation, research, and…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chesapeake Bay Trust; the most unlike its peers is Island Press. 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

10 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. 10 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOONE AND CROCKETT CLUB: $2,033 · AnimalsBOONE AND CROCKETT CLUBNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $1,700 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATIONVALPARAISO UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · OtherVALPARAISO UNIVERSITYOUR LADY OF MERCY CHURCH: $500 · OtherOUR LADY OF MERCY CHURCHSCOUTING AMERICA NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL: $500 · OtherSCOUTING AMERICA NATIONAL CAPITAL …BSA NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL: $500 · OtherBSA NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCILCOSMOS CLUB: $375 · OtherCOSMOS CLUBCHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST: $100 · OtherTHE CONSERVATION LAW CENTER INC: $1,500 · Crime & LegalTHE CONSERVATION …NATIONAL CONSERVATION LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE LTD: $500 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $250 · EducationWILDERNESS WATCH INC: $250 · EnvironmentISLAND PRESS: $250 · EnvironmentTheodore Roosevelt Association: $250 · Arts & Culture
Animals$3,733Other$2,975Crime & Legal$1,500Education$750Environment$500Arts & Culture$250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOONE AND CROCKETT CLUB: $2,033 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $1,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION LAW CENTER INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL CONSERVATION LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE LTD: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOSMOS CLUB: $375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTheodore Roosevelt Association: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDERNESS WATCH INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND PRESS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Baier Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Baier Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Chesapeake Bay Trust: 100% of 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)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Baier Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Baier Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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