· Private foundation
The Bauer Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $7,754 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,746 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,746 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,746 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD6× · 2017–2022 · $21k · revenue +13%- TCTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA4× · 2019–2022 · $18k · revenue +26%
- MUMANHATTANVILLE UNIVERSITY4× · 2019–2022 · $16k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $11k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $8k
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.
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.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…
How this is measured
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MANHATTANVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ENDICOTT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GETTYSBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Norwich University ↗
- Who funds Savannah College of Art and DesignInc ↗
- Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds Eckerd College ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds SETON HALL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bauer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bauer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Norwich University: 14% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 12% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 11% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 6% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 5% of income from government
- Florida Institute of Technology Inc: 3% of income from government
- University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
- Saint Michael's College: 1% of income from government
- Suffolk University: 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 0% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 0% of income from government
- Seton Hall University: 0% of income from government
- Western New England University: 0% of income from government
- Babson College: 0% of income from government
- Endicott College: 0% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
- Eckerd College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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