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The Bauke Family Foundation at a glance

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The Bauke Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$32k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$165kHuman Services$20kEnvironment$19kArts & Culture$6kRecreation & Sports$2kEducation$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,200
Median grant
7
States reached
$545k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED$10,254
ALZHEIMERS RESOURCES OF ALASKA$7,150
ALPHAPOINTE$3,864
CARE DIMENSIONS$3,000
BASCOM PALMER ENVISIONING THE FUTURE$2,200
COLORADO DISCOVER ABILITY$2,050
FLORIDA OUTREACH CENTER FOR THE BLIND$1,049
COLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND$1,040
NATIONAL PARKINSON FOUNDATION HEARTLAND$1,029
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $10k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $7k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $7k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $6k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE VLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $4k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $4k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $3k → 10%FLORIDA OUTREACH CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 11%FLORIDA OUTREACH CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 11%FLORIDA OUTREACH CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 11%FLORIDA OUTREACH CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 11%FLORIDA OUTREACH CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 11%FLORIDA OUTREACH CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 11%FLORIDA OUTREACH CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $750 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

AK
IL
MA
CT
CA
CO
MO
KS
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$201k · 12 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
5

Total granted

$201k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+50%

Still filing today

50%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEmploymentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • LF
    LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED
    7× · 2018–2024 · $41k · revenue +210%
  • A
    ALPHAPOINTE
    7× · 2018–2024 · $31k · revenue +17%
  • Care Dimensions Inc
    6× · 2018–2024 · $20k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +81%
  • KS
    KANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • SC
    STARS-KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
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.

1
Lighthouse Works Inc

Empowerment through employment for blind or visually impaired individuals.

Human Services
2
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
3
Accessible Alpine Adventure Tours
Health
4
Ensight Skills Center

To provide people with low vision the services and resources that empower independent and productive living. ensight's programs are designed to help our patients overcome barriers to living life independently and safely. hands-on programs…

Health
5
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

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6
Disabilityin

The organization is the leading nonprofit resource for business disability inclusion worldwide. together with the world's leading brands, disability:in drives progress on disability inclusion through initiatives, tools, and expertise that…

Community Improvement
7
Florida Center for the Blind Inc

The mission of the florida center for the blind is to foster hope, confidence and independence in individuals with visual impairments; and to educate the community about preventing vision loss.

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8
Central Association for the Blind Inc

To assist people who are blind or visually impaired to achieve their highest level of independence by providing vision rehabilitation services and offering integrated competitive jobs throughout all levels of the association including…

Health
9
Lighthouse for the Blind of the Palm Beaches Inc

Lighthouse for the blind of the palm beaches, inc's mission is to assist persons with visual impairments to develop their capabilities to the fullest and to utilize them in the pursuits of life which are the right and privilege of all.

—
10
The Lighthouse for the Blind in New Orleans Inc

To empower people with disabilities through employment, services and advocacy.

Health
11
Visability

Provide innovative training and tools for people who are blind or visually impaired to help them achieve their goals and dreams

Human Services
12
Ability Beyond Disability Inc

The mission of ability beyond is to discover, build, and celebrate the ability in all people. with approximately 1,100 full-time and part-time employees, ability beyond serves more than 3,000 individuals with disabilities each year.we…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired; the most unlike its peers is Steppenwolf Theatre Company. 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

11 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. 11 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALZHEIMERS RESOURCES OF ALASKA: $32,465 · OtherALZHEIMERS RESOURCES OF ALASKACare Dimensions Inc: $19,500 · OtherCare Dimensions IncBASCOM PALMER ENVISIONING THE FUTURE: $19,200 · OtherBASCOM PALMER ENVISIONING THE FUTURENATIONAL PARKINSON FOUNDATION HEARTLAND: $16,384 · OtherNATIONAL PARKINSON FOUNDATION HEARTLANDHELEN KELLER NATIONAL CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND: $6,500 · OtherHELEN KELLER NATIONAL CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND+4 more: $6,900 · Other+4 moreLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $40,554 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VI…FLORIDA OUTREACH CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $12,923 · Human ServicesFLORIDA OUTREACH CENTER FOR THE…GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $7,550 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INCALPHAPOINTE: $31,017 · EmploymentALPHAPOINTEALZHEIMER'S COMMUNITY CARE INC: $15,500 · HealthALZHEIMER…COLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $1,040 · HealthCOLORADO …ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $643 · Health+1 more: $50 · HealthSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY: $4,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO DISCOVER ABILITY: $2,050 · Recreation & Sports
Other$100,949Human Services$61,027Employment$31,017Health$17,233Arts & Culture$4,000Recreation & Sports$2,050

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $40,554 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetALPHAPOINTE: $31,017 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCare Dimensions Inc: $19,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S COMMUNITY CARE INC: $15,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA OUTREACH CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $12,923 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $7,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO DISCOVER ABILITY: $2,050 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $1,040 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $643 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
  • Who funds ALPHAPOINTE ↗
  • Who funds Care Dimensions Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S COMMUNITY CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA OUTREACH CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO DISCOVER ABILITY ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Bauke Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bauke Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Care Dimensions Inc: 14% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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