· Private foundation
The Bauman 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 $10k6 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LUKES METHODIST CHURCH INC | $20,000 |
| CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN PUBLIC BROADCAST HOUSE INC | $20,000 |
| CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $7,500 |
| FRISCO COMMUNITY BAND | $2,500 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| NORTH TEXAS CAT RESCUE | $2,500 |
| INSYNC EXOTICS INC | $2,500 |
| FURRY FRIENDS ANIMAL RESCUE | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- CACLASSICAL ACADEMY3× · 2021–2024 · $130k · revenue +21%
- MCMCKINNEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL2× · 2019–2022 · $87k · revenue +48%
- MAMARY ABBOTT CHILDREN'S HOUSE2× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF COLO SPRINGSone grant, 2017 · $50k
- MMMcFarlin Memorial United Methodist Churchone grant, 2020 · $25k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue -117%
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.
Animal Aid is a private welfare organization dedicated to saving sick or injured stray dogs and cats, helping pets find loving homes, helping reunite lost and found pets with their owners and encouraging respect and awareness for the…
Texas Ferret Lovers Rescue is a no-kill organization dedicated to providing a safe and healthy environment along with quality care until loving homes can be found. We also provide sanctuary care for ferrets that are not adoptable due to…
Furever Home Pet Rescue is an all-breed all-volunteer 501c3 non-profit organization based in the DallasFt Worth area We receive no government funding and are not funded nor assisted by any outside agency such as United Way Our life-saving…
Reduce hunger in pets by providing free pet food and pet services to low income pet owners enabling them to keep their companion animal(s) with them. this includes providing routine vaccinations, spaying/neutering, pet supplies and shelter…
Rescue neglected, unwanted homeless dogs and cats nurture and provide shelter until they are placed with a forever family strive to reduce animal overpopulation prevent cruelty to animals teach responsible pet ownership through an outreach…
Rescue, rehab, provide pet adoptions, etc in cherokee county okincluding veterinary care, spay and neuter, vaccinationstreatment boarding and shelter care
The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…
As an advocate for the community goal of maintaining its no kill status, the humane society provides adoption, rescue and foster opportunities for the homeless animals at the city of waco animal shelter, as well as community education…
Meowtown animal rescue of fort worth takes in unwanted abused and stray kittens & cats to keep them out of shelters.we are all volunteer donation based and provide safety vetting love and find life-long homes.we educate the public and…
NTASR helps rescue and rehabilitate Australian Shepherds, Border Collies, and mixes of the two.Thus far, several other breeds have made their way through the rescue including a doodle, a dachshund, a frenchie, and a shar pei. NTASR takes…
Houston Cares Rescue is a volunteer organization rescuing animals from the streets, and occasionally from shelters, in Houston, TX, and caring for them primarily with foster families until a loving home can be found. We operate a…
Saving unwanted, abandoned, abused and neglected dogs in Texas. Also to promote proper pet ownership, community educational programs and to support spaying/neutering as a means to control unwanted pets. We provide complete vetting prior to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnies Food Pantry Inc and the most unlike its peers is North Texas Cat Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 18 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 CLASSICAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MCKINNEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN PUBLIC BROADCAST HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MARY ABBOTT CHILDREN'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Norman Inc ↗
- Who funds North Texas Cat Rescue ↗
- Who funds INSYNC EXOTIC INC ↗
- Who funds FURRY FRIENDS ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WILDCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNIES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Frisco Humane Society ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Bauman 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.