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The Bailey Charitable Foundation

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.

$163k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$666kEducation$373kArts & Culture$181kPublic Benefit$100kFood & Nutrition$8kHealth$8kCommunity Improvement$5kAnimals$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $143k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOWN OF STODDARD TREASURER$20,000
TOWN OF STODDARD TREASURER$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
MOHONK PRESERVE$15,000
HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION$12,500
DISTANT HILL GARDENS & NATURE TRAIL$10,000
ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY$10,000
THE HARRIS CENTER FOR CONSERVATION EDUCATION$10,000
ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY$10,000
THE LYME FOUNDATION$5,000
HANOVER CONSERVANCY$5,000
HANOVER CONSERVANCY$5,000
UTILITY CLUB OF LYME$2,500
LYME HISTORIANS$2,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MOHONK PRESERVE: $50k → 16%AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES: $20k → 9%CENTER FOR NORTHERN WOODLANDS EDUCATION: $20k → 10%THE HARRIS CENTER FOR CONSERVATION EDUCATION: $20k → 7%TOWN OF STODDARD TREASURER: $20k → 9%NEW HAMPSHIRE PBS: $50k → 9%NORTHERN WOODLANDS: $20k → 10%MOHONK PRESERVE: $50k → 16%AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES: $20k → 9%CENTER FOR NORTHERN WOODLANDS EDUCATION: $15k → 10%TOWN OF STODDARD TREASURER: $20k → 9%NEW HAMPSHIRE PBS: $50k → 9%NORTHERN WOODLANDS: $20k → 10%MOHONK PRESERVE: $15k → 16%VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES: $15k → 9%CENTER FOR NORTHERN WOODLANDS EDUCATION: $15k → 10%TOWN OF STODDARD TREASURER: $20k → 9%NEW HAMPSHIRE PBS: $15k → 9%NORTHERN WOODLANDS: $20k → 10%MOHONK PRESERVE: $15k → 16%HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $13k → 9%CENTER FOR NORTHERN WOODLANDS EDUCATION: $15k → 10%TOWN OF STODDARD TREASURER: $20k → 9%NEW HAMPSHIRE PBS: $15k → 9%MOHONK PRESERVE: $15k → 16%CENTER FOR NORTHERN WOODLANDS EDUCATION: $15k → 10%TOWN OF STODDARD TREASURER: $20k → 9%NEW HAMPSHIRE PBS: $15k → 9%MOHONK PRESERVE: $15k → 16%NEW HAMPSHIRE PBS: $15k → 9%MOHONK PRESERVE: $11k → 16%MOHONK PRESERVE: $11k → 16%ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY: $175k → 9%ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY: $25k → 9%ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY: $25k → 9%MONADNOCK CONSERVANCY: $21k → 9%ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY: $20k → 9%MONADNOCK CONSERVANCY: $20k → 9%MONADNOCK CONSERVANCY: $20k → 9%ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY: $20k → 9%MONADNOCK CONSERVANCY: $17k → 9%MONADNOCK CONSERVANCY: $17k → 9%MONADNOCK CONSERVANCY: $17k → 9%TOWN OF WALPOLE LIBRARY: $11k → 9%TOWN OF WALPOLE LIBRARY: $11k → 9%TOWN OF WALPOLE LIBRARY: $11k → 9%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.
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 24 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
6

Total granted

$1.4M
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+34%

Still filing today

54%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentPhilanthropyAnimalsPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MP
    MOHONK PRESERVE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $193k · revenue +25%
  • TM
    The Monadnock Conservancy
    6× · 2017–2022 · $111k · revenue +230%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR NORTHERN WOODLANDS EDUCATION INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $80k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHESHIRE COUNTY CONSERVATION DISRICT
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • CN
    CHARLESTOWN NH ROTARY FDTN
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF THE CUSHING ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +34%
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.

04Its 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
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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2
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
3
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
4
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
5
Kestrel Land Trust

Kestrel land trust conserves and cares for forests, farms, and riverways in the connecticut river valley of western massachusetts while nurturing an enduring love of the land

Environment
6
Rehoboth Land Trust

Preserves the natural beauty & resources of rehoboth, ma through conservation and ownership. maintains trails and hosts educational programming about wildlife and plants to encourage public appreciation and stewardship of our natural…

Environment
7
Bates Morse Mountain Conservation Area Corporation

Education and scientific research

—
8
Land Conservancy of Ridgefield Inc

The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…

Environment
9
Great Pond Mountain Conservation Tr

Conserving land, water and wildlife habitat for the communities of northwest hancock county. protecting our legacy of: abundant wildlife habitat and biodiversity clean water rural character and scenic beauty working forests and farms…

—
10
Monhegan Associates Inc

The monhegan associates is a land trust dedicated to the ongoing preservation of the natural wild beauty and biotic communities of more than 350 acres of wildlands on monhegan island in maine.

Environment
11
Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservation

Woodlawn nurtures curiosity and a sense of place by promoting downeast maine's cultural heritage through educational and recreational experiences. under the governance of the hancock county trustees of public reservations, woodlawn offers…

Arts & Culture
12
Wilderness Conservation Foundation
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hanover Conservancy; the most unlike its peers is The Rolling Dog Farm. 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

17 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. 17 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY: $335,000 · OtherANTIOCH UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $160,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTOWN OF STODDARD TREASURER: $100,000 · OtherTOWN OF STODDARD TREASURERIndividual grant recipient: $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDISTANT HILL GARDENS & NATURE TRAIL: $40,000 · OtherTOWN OF WALPOLE LIBRARY: $33,000 · Other+13 more: $60,000 · Other+13 moreMOHONK PRESERVE INC: $193,000 · EnvironmentMOHONK PRESERVE INCThe Monadnock Conservancy: $111,285 · EnvironmentThe Monadnock ConservancyHARRIS CENTER FOR CONSERVATION EDUCATION INC: $56,000 · EnvironmentHARRIS CENTER FOR CONSERVATION EDUCATION …THE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC: $55,000 · EnvironmentTHE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INCHUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $47,500 · EnvironmentHUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATIONVERMONT WOODLANDS ASSOCIATION: $35,000 · EnvironmentVERMONT WOODLANDS ASSOCIATIONAMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION+1 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR NORTHERN WOODLANDS EDUCATION INC: $80,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE MILL HOLLOW HERITAGE ASSOCIATION: $33,500 · Arts & CultureTHE LYME FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DEE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $3,000 · AnimalsTHE ROLLING DOG FARM: $3,000 · AnimalsTHE TRUSTEES OF THE CUSHING ACADEMY: $5,000 · Education
Other$788,000Environment$537,785Public Safety & Disaster$80,000Arts & Culture$33,500Philanthropy$8,000Animals$6,000Education$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMOHONK PRESERVE INC: $193,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetThe Monadnock Conservancy: $111,285 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCENTER FOR NORTHERN WOODLANDS EDUCATION INC: $80,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetHARRIS CENTER FOR CONSERVATION EDUCATION INC: $56,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC: $55,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetHUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $47,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTHE MILL HOLLOW HERITAGE ASSOCIATION: $33,500 over 4y, 14% of budgetAMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHANOVER CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE CUSHING ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LYME FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTHE DEE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROLLING DOG FARM: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLYME HISTORIANS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 8.2% 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.

  • Who funds MOHONK PRESERVE INC ↗
  • Who funds The Monadnock Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR NORTHERN WOODLANDS EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HARRIS CENTER FOR CONSERVATION EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC ↗
  • Who funds HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT WOODLANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MILL HOLLOW HERITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HANOVER CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Walpole Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE CUSHING ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE LYME FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds THE ROLLING DOG FARM ↗
  • Who funds LYME HISTORIANS INC ↗

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.

New Hampshire Charita…Allan B Roby & France…Davis Conservation Fo…Emily Landecker Found…Mascoma Bank Foundati…The Vermont Community…The Nature ConservancyShell USA Company Fou…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH26.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Allan B Roby & Frances M Roby Charitable Trust · Davis Conservation Foundation · Emily Landecker Foundation Inc · Mascoma Bank Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Shell USA Company Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Bailey Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bailey Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Vermont Woodlands Association: 21% of income from government
  • Hubbard Brook Research Foundation: 6% of income from government
  • The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Bailey Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Bailey Charitable Foundation 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 34 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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