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The Baldridge Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $358k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Girls Inc of Santa Fe | $100,000 |
| Tex Protects | $50,000 |
| Literacy Achieves | $37,500 |
| Georgia O'Keefe Museum | $25,000 |
| Uplift Education | $25,000 |
| North Texas Food Bank | $25,000 |
| WINGS for Women and Children | $25,000 |
| Vogel Alcove | $25,000 |
| UT Southwestern Medical Center | $25,000 |
| Teach for America DFW | $25,000 |
| Dallas After School | $25,000 |
| Interfaith Housing Coalition | $20,800 |
| Dallas College Foundation | $20,000 |
| The Storehouse of Collin County | $20,000 |
| Mommies in Need | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $157k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of The Baldridge Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2023, 28 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $173k 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
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SANTA FE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $387k · revenue +189%
- DADALLAS AFTERSCHOOL5× · 2017–2023 · $135k · revenue +14%
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK4× · 2017–2023 · $105k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- SISpida Inc Braswell Child Development Centerone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -15%
- JFJewish Family Servicesone grant, 2022 · $40k
- CCCooks Children Hospitalone grant, 2018 · $34k
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
We believe every texas student deserves the opportunity to earn a postsecondary credential or degree that helps them achieve the future they envision for themselves and their families. we invest in the programs, practices, and policies…
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
The dcms foundation's mission is to improve the quality and distribution of health services throughout dallas county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is Land Light Foundation. 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 106 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 THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SANTA FE INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS AFTERSCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CASA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds VOGEL ALCOVE ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Spida Inc Braswell Child Development Center ↗
- Who funds TRINITY RIVER MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds READERS 2 LEADERS ↗
- Who funds Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
- Who funds CANCER PREVENTION INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds WILKINSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
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: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Perot Foundation · The Moody Foundation
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 Baldridge 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.
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
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.
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