· Private foundation
The Baum Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $420k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BARRY COUNTY JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION | $250,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $200,000 |
| HASTINGS AREA SCHOOLS | $110,000 |
| CITY OF HASTINGS | $60,000 |
| CORWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HASTINGS BAND BOOSTERS | $10,000 |
| CHERRY HEALTH FOUNDATION - BARRY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $10,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY | $10,000 |
| BARRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| HILTON HEAD HUMANE ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| HASTINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| BLUFFTON SELF HELP | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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 +24% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
SPIRITUAL CARE CONSULTANTS OF WEST MICHIGAN INC6× · 2017–2022 · $150k · revenue +43%- PAPALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +45%
- HHHILTON HEAD HUMANE ASSOCIATION6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $102k
- CUCALVIN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +1%
- GAGENEVIEVE AND DONALD S GILMORE FDNgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +98%
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.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
To improve health, instill humanity and inspire hope.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…
Benefit, perform, and carry out the charitable, educational, and other exempt purposes of indiana university health ball memorial hospital, inc. ("iu health ball memorial hospital") and related organizations, and to support activities…
Creating healthy communities - together
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Creating healthy communities - together
Michigan farm bureau (mfb) is a member directed agricultural organization whose purpose is to represent, protect, and enhance the business, economic, social, and educational interests of our members located throughout the state of michigan.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Barry Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Genevieve and Donald S Gilmore Fdn. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 53 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 BARRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds SPIRITUAL CARE CONSULTANTS OF WEST MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS BAND BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds DIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GENEVIEVE AND DONALD S GILMORE FDN ↗
- Who funds BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARRY COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds THE BUDDY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALEXIAN BROTHERS HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds Edward Foundation ↗
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: Barry Community Foundation · Preston S and Barbara J Parish Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Baum Family 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.
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.