· Private foundation
The Chester & Ruth Baylor 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Milan Public Schools | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Hanover College | $5,000 |
| Hope's Closet | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| WAA | $2,000 |
| Dollars for Scholars | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MVMILAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT IN6× · 2017–2022 · $93k · revenue +26% · 27% of their budget
- SPSAFE PASSAGE INC3× · 2020–2023 · $14k · revenue +28%
- HCHanover College4× · 2018–2024 · $13k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $31k
- SISoutheastern IN Shrine Clubone grant, 2021 · $22k
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.
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.
To provide fire protection and emergency services to the residents of manchester township.
To provide fire and ambulance service to the bristol, indiana area
Fire & emergency protection
Volunteer fire department serving caswell and person counties
Rural volunteer fire protection
Rescue dogs and puppies from high kill shelters
Provide fire protection for the citizens of hebron, boone township, porter county, indiana
Volunteer fire department
Providing volunteer firefighting & emergency services
Fire protection services for dolphin, va and surrounding communities
To provide fire protection and fire prevention services for the boundaries of new washington township in indiana
Volunteer firefighters
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 66 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Chester & Ruth Baylor Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chester & Ruth Baylor Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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