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The Baird Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$598k
Granted FY2024still arriving
116
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.8MEducation$413kYouth Development$373kHealth$242kRecreation & Sports$212kEnvironment$187kPhilanthropy$175kAnimals$158kOther$0
02FY2024 · 116 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k95 grants · $248k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $350k
$2,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
US National Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame$40,000
The Buffalo Seminary$27,500
Buffalo ReUse$25,000
Graycliff Conservancy Inc$23,250
Burchfield Penney Art Center$21,840
Niagara Aerospace Museum$20,000
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society Inc$19,250
Investigative Post$16,426
Carousel Society of the Niagara Frontier Inc$15,135
Artpark & Company$15,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Buffalo Inc$15,000
Buffalo Waterways Center$15,000
Community Foundation of Sarasota County Inc$15,000
Buffalo City Mission$11,000
BRR Alliance$10,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 9%GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS: $500 → 12%GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS: $500 → 12%Great Old Broads for Wilderness: $500 → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $4k → 14%GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS: $500 → 12%GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS: $500 → 12%Great Old Broads for Wilderness: $500 → 12%Great Old Broads for Wilderness: $500 → 12%THE VERMONT RIVER CONSERVANCY: $1k → 9%THE VERMONT RIVER CONSERVANCY: $500 → 9%Rural Outreach Center: $7k → 13%Rural Outreach Center: $5k → 13%Rural Outreach Center: $5k → 13%FeedMore WNY Foundation: $3k → 13%FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%FeedMore WNY Foundation: $1k → 13%GLIDING STARS: $5k → 13%GLIDING STARS: $5k → 13%GLIDING STARS: $5k → 13%GLIDING STARS: $5k → 13%Gliding Stars: $1k → 13%OLMSTED CENTER FOR SIGHT: $4k → 13%ELIZABETH PIERCE OLMSTED - CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $3k → 13%THE TEACHER'S DESK: $3k → 13%The Teacher's Desk: $3k → 13%Canopy of Neighbors: $250 → 13%CANOPY OF NEIGHBORS: $250 → 13%CANOPY OF NEIGHBORS: $250 → 13%CANOPY OF NEIGHBORS: $250 → 13%CANOPY OF NEIGHBORS: $250 → 13%CANOPY OF NEIGHBORS: $250 → 13%Families of FANA - WNY: $600 → 13%FAMILIES OF FANA -WNY INC: $550 → 13%Families of FANA - WNY: $500 → 13%FAMILIES OF FANA -WNY INC: $500 → 13%FAMILIES OF FANA -WNY INC: $500 → 13%Families of FANA - WNY: $250 → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $21k → 13%Buffalo City Mission: $11k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $2k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $2k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $1k → 13%Buffalo City Mission: $1k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $1k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $1k → 13%Buffalo City Mission: $1k → 13%BUFFALO IMMIGRANT LEADERSHIP TEAM: $1k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
NH
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
DC
OK
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.6M · 154 repeat orgs$482k to everyone else

154 repeat relationships — 87 still active in FY2024, 67 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

154
75

Total granted

$3.6M
$313k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+28%

Still filing today

63%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k 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
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $417k · revenue +16%
  • GC
    GRAYCLIFF CONSERVANCY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +354%
  • BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $122k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • TB
    TRAIL BLAZING WOMEN OF WNY
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • TJ
    THE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +20%
  • AF
    ASCENSION FOR THE ARTS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Buffalo Niagara River Land Trust Inc

To acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.

Environment
2
Ralph Wilson Park Conservancy Inc

The organization was formed for the specific purpose of operating, maintaining and protecting parks and public spaces in the city of buffalo, new york, including but not limited to parks and public spaces owned or operated by the city of…

Recreation & Sports
3
Adirondack Mountain Club Inc

Adk is the only non-profit organization in new york state dedicated to the conservation, preservation, and responsible recreational use of the new york state forest preserve and other parks, wild lands, and waters vital to our members and…

Environment
4
Buffalo Lighthouse Association Inc

Preservation, protection and restoration of the buffalo new york lighthouses and to maintain and develop the area surrounding them in accordance with their historical significance.

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5
Buffalo Erie Niagara Land Improvement Corporation

The buffalo erie niagara land improvement corporation (benlic) seeks to confront and alleviate the problems distressed properties cause to communities by supporting municipal and regional revitalization efforts and strategically acquiring,…

Community Improvement
6
Thompson Park Conservancy Inc

Zoo new york, by example and action, provides knowledge and motivation for conserving nature in new york state through science-based natural and cultural experiences.

Arts & Culture
7
Genesee Land Trust Inc

Genesee Land Trust preserves and protects natural lands and waterways that enhance the quality of life in the Greater Rochester region - providing wildlife habitat, locally grown food, and connections to nature.

Environment
8
The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment
9
The Central New York Land Trust Inc

The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.

Environment
10
Invest Buffalo Niagara Foundation Inc

Invest buffalo niagara foundation, inc. is a vehicle to solicit charitable contributions to develop programs, collaborate with, and provide funding to organizations that advance and encourage economic development in western new york.

Community Improvement
11
Western New York Land Conservancy Inc

To permanently protect land with significant conservation value in western new york, for the benefit of future generations.

Environment
12
Binghamton Philharmonic Inc

The mission of the Binghamton Philharmonic is building community through the power of live music.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Buffalo and Erie County and the most unlike its peers is Black Rock Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteady#8#12#17#10#7#0#16#18#11#1#9#19#14#13#5#4
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr19%27%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%47%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%1/175
the rest of the field
10%
11,857/120,585

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.

04the grantee network

166 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 166 of the 259 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
160/166
Grantees still filing
102/166
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $416,885 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY IN…NEW ENGLAND SKI MUSEUM INC — $216,500 · Arts & CultureNEW ENGLAND SKI MUSEUM INCGRAYCLIFF CONSERVANCY INC — $175,103 · Arts & CultureGRAYCLIFF CONSERVANCY INCBURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER — $122,340 · Arts & CultureBURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTERKLEINHANS MUSIC HALL MANAGEMENT INC — $103,000 · Arts & CultureKLEINHANS MUSIC HALL MANAGEMENT INC+30 more — $488,075 · Arts & Culture+30 moreUS National Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame — $148,520 · OtherUS National Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fam…CITY YEAR INC — $55,000 · Other+121 more — $1,313,123 · Other+121 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BUFFALO INC — $345,800 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GI…BUFFALO SEMINARY — $95,568 · EducationNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO — $53,750 · EducationTHE SUMMIT CENTER INC — $35,000 · EducationBUFFALO STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · EducationColumbus School for Girls — $16,000 · EducationPARK SCHOOL CORPORATION — $15,000 · EducationCANISIUS UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · Education+3 more — $15,500 · EducationTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC — $120,000 · PhilanthropyROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION — $30,750 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC — $30,000 · PhilanthropyJewish Federation Of Greater Buffalo Inc — $15,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY — $9,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $6,400 · PhilanthropyCLEAN AIR COALITION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $31,120 · EnvironmentBUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY BOTANICAL GARDENS SOCIETY INC — $30,000 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $16,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $15,000 · EnvironmentDOWNEAST COASTAL CONSERVANCY — $12,000 · EnvironmentNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION — $11,000 · EnvironmentSCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK — $11,000 · EnvironmentForest Society of Maine — $8,000 · EnvironmentGrassroots Gardens of Western New York Inc — $7,500 · EnvironmentBUFFALO AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $7,500 · EnvironmentNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc — $6,000 · Environment+3 more — $10,850 · EnvironmentHAUPTMAN-WOODWARD MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $32,250 · HealthECMC FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · HealthTHE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — $8,000 · HealthKEVIN GUEST HOUSE INC — $5,000 · HealthKALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthPINK RIBBON GOOD INC — $5,000 · Health+4 more — $9,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$1,521,903Other$1,516,643Youth Development$345,800Education$275,818Philanthropy$211,150Environment$165,970Health$119,250

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $416,885 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BUFFALO INC — $345,800 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetNEW ENGLAND SKI MUSEUM INC — $216,500 over 8y, 17% of budgetGRAYCLIFF CONSERVANCY INC — $175,103 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetBURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER — $122,340 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC — $120,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKLEINHANS MUSIC HALL MANAGEMENT INC — $103,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetBUFFALO SEMINARY — $95,568 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO — $53,750 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetINVESTIGATIVE POST INC — $49,426 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetBUFFALO STRING WORKS INC — $46,800 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC — $41,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBUFFALO HERITAGE CAROUSEL INC — $41,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN BEAR CENTER — $40,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetBUFFALO & ERIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $37,550 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE NATIONAL FEDERATION FOR JUST COMMUNITIES OF WNY INC — $37,500 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetWESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION — $35,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SUMMIT CENTER INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBUFFALO STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHAUPTMAN-WOODWARD MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $32,250 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCLEAN AIR COALITION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $31,120 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION — $30,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBRRALLIANCE INC — $30,500 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetBUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY BOTANICAL GARDENS SOCIETY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetECMC FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTPARK & COMPANY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWEST SIDE ROWING CLUB INCORPORATED OF THE CITY OF BUFFALO — $29,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetCenter for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts Inc — $25,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetTHE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBuffalo ReUse Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetWILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $24,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetTHEODORE ROOSEVELT INAUGURAL SITE FOUNDATION — $23,950 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetGLIDING STARSINC — $21,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetBUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES — $20,100 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNIAGARA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $20,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetNIAGARA AEROSPACE MUSEUM — $20,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetJUST BUFFALO LITERARY CENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCAROUSEL SOCIETY OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIER INC — $19,580 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE BUFFALO STORY INC — $17,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetThe Rural Outreach Center Inc — $17,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWESTERN NEW YORK HERITAGE INC — $16,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetColumbus School for Girls — $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Music School — $16,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARK SCHOOL CORPORATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BUFFALO INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND SKI MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds GRAYCLIFF CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ↗
  • Who funds KLEINHANS MUSIC HALL MANAGEMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO SEMINARY ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO ↗
  • Who funds INVESTIGATIVE POST INC ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO STRING WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO HERITAGE CAROUSEL INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH AMERICAN BEAR CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO & ERIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL FEDERATION FOR JUST COMMUNITIES OF WNY INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE SUMMIT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HAUPTMAN-WOODWARD MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEAN AIR COALITION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BRRALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY BOTANICAL GARDENS SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds ECMC FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTPARK & COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTMINSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST SIDE ROWING CLUB INCORPORATED OF THE CITY OF BUFFALO ↗
  • Who funds Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Buffalo ReUse Inc ↗
  • Who funds WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THEODORE ROOSEVELT INAUGURAL SITE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The Western New York …The John R Oishei Fou…The Margaret L Wendt …First Niagara Foundat…Foundation for Jewish…Cullen FoundationThe Ralph C Wilson Jr…James H Cummings Foun…Children's Foundation…The Frank G Raichle F…Simple Gifts Fund
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY134.1× affinity81 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Western New York Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Cullen Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · Simple Gifts Fund

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 The Baird 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
  • Community Resources for Justice Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Leahy Center for Lake Champlain Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Vermont Natural Resources Council Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc — 29% of income from government
  • The Vermont River Conservancy Inc — 21% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • White River Partnership Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Babson College — 3% of income from government
  • Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
  • Lake Champlain Maritime Museum at Basin Harbor Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
53report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Baird Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Baird 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 259 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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