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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.

$735k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.5MEducation$1.0MHuman Services$900kHealth$779kPublic Benefit$340kRecreation & Sports$313kPhilanthropy$281kAnimals$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $420k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GILMORE CAR MUSEUM: $30k → 9%PURDUE FOUNDATION: $20k → 19%GILMORE CAR MUSUEM: $30k → 9%CALVIN UNIVERSITY: $35k → 11%GILMORE CAR MUSUEM: $23k → 9%CHERRY HEALTH: $318k → 11%BARRY COUNTY: $465k → 9%SPECTRUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $60k → 11%HASTINGS AREA SCHOOLS: $386k → 9%CORWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%HASTINGS AREA SCHOOLS: $334k → 9%BARRY COUNTY JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION: $250k → 9%BARRY COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING: $250k → 9%FRIENDS OF PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $200k → 9%FRIENDS OF PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $200k → 9%FRIENDS OF PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $200k → 9%HASTINGS AREA SCHOOLS: $155k → 9%CITY OF HASTINGS: $150k → 9%HASTINGS AREA SCHOOLS: $140k → 9%CITY OF HASTINGS: $135k → 9%HASTINGS BAND BOOSTERS: $115k → 9%HASTINGS AREA SCHOOLS: $110k → 9%HASTINGS CITY - BARRY AIRPORT: $102k → 9%HASTINGS AREA SCHOOLS: $100k → 9%SPECTRUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $90k → 9%CITY OF HASTINGS: $87k → 9%HASTINGS AREA SCHOOLS: $70k → 9%CITY OF HASTINGS: $60k → 9%SPIRITUAL CARE CONSULTANTS OF WEST MICHIGAN: $55k → 9%CITY OF HASTINGS: $50k → 9%YMCA OF BARRY COUNTY: $50k → 9%CITY OF HASTINGS: $50k → 9%PENNOCK FOUNDATION: $32k → 9%BARRY COUNTY JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION: $30k → 9%CITY OF HASTINGS: $30k → 9%SPIRITUAL CARE CONSULTANTS OF WEST MICHIGAN: $25k → 9%HASTINGS AREA SCHOOLS: $25k → 9%SPIRITUAL CARE CONSULTANTS OF WEST MICHIGAN: $25k → 9%PENNOCK FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%SPIRITUAL CARE CONSULTANTS OF WEST MICHIGAN: $25k → 9%THORNAPPLE ARTS COUNCIL: $25k → 9%YMCA OF BARRY COUNTY: $25k → 9%BARRY COUNTY: $21k → 9%BARRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%BARRY COUNTY: $20k → 9%BARRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%BARRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%BARRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 29 repeat orgs$303k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against -12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
22

Total granted

$5.0M
$293k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
-12%

Still filing today

28%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & 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

  • SPIRITUAL CARE CONSULTANTS OF WEST MICHIGAN INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $150k · revenue +46%
  • HB
    HASTINGS BAND BOOSTERS INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $125k · revenue +36% · 48% of their budget
  • PA
    PALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $102k
  • CU
    CALVIN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +1%
  • GA
    GENEVIEVE AND DONALD S GILMORE FDNgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +98%
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
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

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2
Beaumont Health Foundation

To improve health, instill humanity and inspire hope.

Health
3
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Physicians Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
4
Highmark Health

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.

Health
5
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
6
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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7
Mymichigan Health Foundation

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…

Health
8
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

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…

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9
Mymichigan Medical Group

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
10
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
11
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
12
Michigan Farm Bureau

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Barry Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 53 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
10/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HASTINGS AREA SCHOOLS: $1,340,000 · OtherHASTINGS AREA SCHOOLSFRIENDS OF PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $600,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF PERFORMING ARTS CENTERCITY OF HASTINGS: $581,600 · OtherCITY OF HASTINGSIndividual grant recipient: $506,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHERRY HEALTH: $323,103 · OtherCHERRY HEALTHBARRY COUNTY JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION: $280,000 · OtherBARRY COUNTY JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATIONBARRY COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING: $260,000 · Other+36 more: $991,307 · Other+36 moreBARRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $185,400 · PhilanthropyBARRY COUNTY UNITED WAY: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN: $160,000 · HealthALEXIAN BROTHERS HEALTH SYSTEM: $7,500 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthHASTINGS BAND BOOSTERS INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureHILTON HEAD HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · AnimalsTHE BUDDY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · AnimalsCALVIN UNIVERSITY: $35,000 · EducationSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$4,882,010Philanthropy$195,400Health$167,600Arts & Culture$125,000Animals$40,000Education$35,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBARRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $185,400 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetSPIRITUAL CARE CONSULTANTS OF WEST MICHIGAN INC: $150,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetHASTINGS BAND BOOSTERS INC: $125,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetDIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE: $40,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCALVIN UNIVERSITY: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILTON HEAD HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGENEVIEVE AND DONALD S GILMORE FDN: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBLUFFTON SELF HELP INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBARRY COUNTY UNITED WAY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BUDDY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetALEXIAN BROTHERS HEALTH SYSTEM: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEdward Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF BARRY COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $100 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 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 ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF BARRY COUNTY ↗

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.

Barry Community Found…Preston S and Barbara…Consumers Energy Foun…WK Kellogg FoundationChubb Charitable Foun…Morgan Stanley Global…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…
Barry Community FoundationMI20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 53 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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