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The Baxa Family Foundation at a glance

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The Baxa 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.

$11k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$123kHealth$60kEnvironment$13kHuman Services$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kInternational$2kArts & Culture$2k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$225k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY$7,500
OPEN LAND CONSERVANCY OF CHESTER COUNTY$1,500
SUSTAINABILITY MATTERS INC$1,500
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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Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $2k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $750 → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $500 → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $500 → 6%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$201k · 8 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$201k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+129%

Still filing today

63%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesArts & CultureReligionOther
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

  • SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $123k · revenue +39%
  • SM
    SUSTAINABILITY MATTERS INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $6k · revenue +60%
  • KA
    KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $3k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +163%
  • ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +129%
  • SW
    STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $750 · revenue +18%
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
The Clearwater Conservancy of Central Pennsylvania Inc

To conserve and restore the natural resources through land conservation, water resources stewardship and environmental outreach across central pennsylvania.

Environment
2
Sustainable Chesapeake

Cultivating prosperity for farms, business and communities through innovative environmental solutions.

Public Benefit
3
Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley

Alliance for the shenandoah valley informs and engages people to protect the natural resources, cultural heritages, and rural character of our region.

Community Improvement
4
Heartlands Conservancy

The mission of heartlands conservancy is to empower and colaborate with the people of southern illinois to advance and protect the health of our distinctive communities and nationally significant natural and cultural resources.

Environment
5
Southeast Michigan Land Conservancy

To conserve natural land and open space - including forests, wetlands, meadows, agricultural lands, and places of scenic beauty - to provide habitat for wildlife and to enrich the lives of people.

Environment
6
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
7
Sustainable Conservation Inc

Sustainable conservation, inc works with the conservation fund, a nonprofit corporation, to create partnerships with the private, nonprofit, and public sectors to protect the outdoor heritage of the united states.

Environment
8
Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc

Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…

Environment
9
Atlantic Coast Conservancy Inc

The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…

Environment
10
Sycamore Land Trust Incorporated

To preserve the beauty, health, and diversity of southern indiana's natural landscape through strategic land conservation and environmental education.

Environment
11
Heritage Conservancy Inc

We are a community based organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of significant open spaces, natural resources, and our historic heritage.

Arts & Culture
12
Cheshire Land Preservation Fund

Promote and encourage the preservation of open space in southern chester county.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stroud Water Research Center; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $122,500 · EducationSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITYGARRETT COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $60,000 · OtherGARRETT COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITALFRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC: $3,500 · OtherFRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC+1 more: $1,500 · OtherSUSTAINABILITY MATTERS INC: $6,000 · EnvironmentSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND: $3,000 · EnvironmentOPEN LAND CONSERVANCY OF CHESTER COUNTY: $1,500 · EnvironmentKENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $3,250 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,500 · ReligionBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art: $1,500 · Arts & CultureALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $1,500 · Public Safety & DisasterSTROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER: $750 · Science & Tech
Education$122,500Other$65,000Environment$10,500Human Services$3,250Religion$1,500Arts & Culture$1,500Public Safety & Disaster$1,500Science & Tech$750

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 budgetSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $122,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINABILITY MATTERS INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetKENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $3,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN LAND CONSERVANCY OF CHESTER COUNTY: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAND CONSERVANCY FOR SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER: $750 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.

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.

Delaware Community Fo…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Delaware Community Foundation IncDE13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 12 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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