How much does The Banks Baldwin Foundation give?

The Banks Baldwin Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $87,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.

What does The Banks Baldwin Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Education (25%), Health (14%).

Who are The Banks Baldwin Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Theatre Workshop of Nantucket Inc ($28k), The Cleveland Music School Settlement ($25k), Lifeact ($23k).

Does The Banks Baldwin Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2022, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Banks Baldwin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Banks Baldwin Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation, The George Gund Foundation.

Where is The Banks Baldwin Foundation based?

The Banks Baldwin Foundation is based in OH.

The Banks Baldwin Foundation

The Banks Baldwin Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Banks Baldwin Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$87k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$134kEducation$121kHealth$67kYouth Development$59kHuman Services$26kEnvironment$24kPublic Benefit$14kFood & Nutrition$9kOther$0

02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$736k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
LIFE ACT	$5,000
ASSEMBY FOR THE ARTS	$5,000
COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND	$4,500
FAIRMONT MONTESSORI SCHOOL	$4,000
BRITE ENERGY INNOVATORS	$3,500
TALESPINNER CHILDRENS THEATRE	$3,500
NEAR WEST THEATRE	$3,500
LAKE ERIE INK	$3,500
AMERICA SCORES CLEVELAND	$3,500
SEEDS OF LITERACY	$3,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NE OH	$3,000
DAILY DOSE OF READING	$3,000
NATURE CENTER AT SHAKER LAKES	$3,000
CLEVELAND-MARSHALL LAW SCHOOL	$3,000
EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION	$3,000

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$385k · 41 repeat orgs$106k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$385k

$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

Still filing today

68%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthOther

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

TW
THEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET INC
4× · 2018–2021 · $28k · revenue +48%
TC
THE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT
7× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +92%
L
LIFEACT
7× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +76%

Funded once

DT
DUNHAM TAVERN MUSEUM & GARDENSgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +178%
HM
HIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INC
one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -19%
NC
NANTUCKET COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +12%

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.

Center for Arts-Inspired Learning

Cal champions creative learning, drives educational innovation, and transforms lives through collaborative efforts involving teaching artists, students, educators, and communities.

Education

Cleveland Leadership Center

The mission of cleveland leadership center (the organization) is to build a continuum of civic leaders committed to our community's excellence by serving as a catalyst for civic engagement. the organization achieves its mission by…

Education

Cleveland Museum of Art

The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…

Arts & Culture

The Literacy Cooperative of Greater Cleveland

The literacy cooperative of cleveland was formed for public, charitable, scientific, and educational purposes relating to the improvement of the literacy rate in the greater cleveland area.

Education

Dobama Theatre Inc

Dobama theatre, inc. is dedicated to premiering important new plays by established & emerging playwrights in professional productions of the highest quality. through theatrical production, community engagement, and education programming,…

Arts & Culture

Ballet Metropolitan Inc

Balletmet will celebrate dance by engaging the community through quality performances, instruction, education programs, and creation of new work.

Arts & Culture

The City Club of Cleveland

The city club of cleveland's mission is to create conversations of consequence that help democracy thrive. we do this in pursuit of our vision of strong, informed individuals and communities that prize freedom of speech and civil, civic…

Education

Community Learning Center Institute

Clci facilitates the ongoing engagement of the greater cincinnati community to promote the development of all schools as community learning centers, each with a set of financially self-sustaining, co-located community partners.

Education

Cleveland Arts Prize

The cleveland arts prize identifies, rewards, publicly honors and promotes those creative artists whose original work and accomplishments have set a standard of excellence to which other artists can aspire. additionally, the cleveland arts…

Arts & Culture

Literary Cleveland

Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.

Education

Cleveland Center for Arts and Technology

Mission: for all of our students to achieve optimal health by integrating mental and physical well-being and life purpose. values: we will improve the lives of our students and our community. we will fight inherently inequitable systems.…

Arts & Culture

Cleveland Pops Orchestra

The cleveland pops orchestra, led by conductor carl topilow, performs the highest quality symphonic pops music to entertain and enrich a wide and diverse audience and provides educational programs to develop an enduring appreciation of…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland; the most unlike its peers is Contemporary Youth Orchestra. 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

55 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. 55 of the 91 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

53/55

Grantees still filing

37/55

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$241,000Arts & Culture$86,000Education$55,350Youth Development$40,750Human Services$28,500Health$24,500Civil Rights$15,000

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

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.

The Cleveland FoundationOH59.6× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Treu Mart Fund · The Abington Foundation · Cavaliers Youth Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Martha Holden Jennings Foundation · The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Thomas H White Fdn Ta · The Sk Wellman 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 Banks Baldwin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Banks Baldwin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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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