New York · Private foundation
The Baird Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $598k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 116
- Grants FY2024
- 91
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 91 to 105
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $13M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations The Baird Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 114 | $578k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 91 | $535k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 101 | $478k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 92 | $630k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 91 | $500k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 95 | $483k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 100 | $415k | 31% |
| FY2017 | 105 | $434k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society Inc | $416,885 | 8 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Buffalo Inc | $345,800 | 8 | 1% |
| New England Ski Museum Inc | $216,500 | 8 | 17% |
| Graycliff Conservancy Inc | $175,103 | 8 | 5% |
| Burchfield Penney Art Center | $122,340 | 8 | 1% |
| Kleinhans Music Hall Management Inc | $103,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Buffalo Seminary | $95,568 | 8 | 0% |
| City Year Inc | $55,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Nichols School of Buffalo | $53,750 | 8 | 0% |
| Investigative Post Inc | $49,426 | 5 | 3% |
Show all 172 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 84 recipients with no EIN on record ($791k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Baird Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
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About The Baird Foundation
- How much does The Baird Foundation give?
- The Baird Foundation reported 116 grants totaling $597,573 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 91 and 105 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Baird Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (42%), Education (10%), Youth Development (9%).
- Who are The Baird Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society Inc ($417k), Boys & Girls Clubs of Buffalo Inc ($346k), New England Ski Museum Inc ($217k).
- Does The Baird Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Baird Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Baird Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The Western New York Foundation, The John R Oishei Foundation.
- Where is The Baird Foundation based?
- The Baird Foundation is based in NY.
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