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The David and Kathleen Baum Family Foundation at a glance

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The David and Kathleen 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.

$122k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$162kEducation$145kCommunity Improvement$53kHousing & Shelter$48kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kPhilanthropy$23kEnvironment$10kYouth Development$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $116k
$550
Median grant
8
States reached
$796k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAKE A WISH SOUTHERN FLORIDA$42,000
CAMILLIUS HOUSE$25,328
CURETIVITY FOUNDATION$25,000
CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND$12,000
FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND$11,500
EAGLES AUTISM FOUNDATION$1,350
GOFUNDME$1,050
COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK$1,000
EVERLOVED$550
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS$515
UGIFT 529$500
DOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE$500
ANIMAL CARE CENTER OF ST JOHN$250
PLAIN JAINE FOUNDATION$250
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL$180
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $500 → 16%WELLESLEY SERVICE LEAGUE: $2k → 7%WELLESLEY SERVICE LEAGUE: $300 → 7%WELLESLEY SERVICE LEAGUE: $158 → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
KY
VA
KS
TN
DC
FL
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$405k · 30 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
44

Total granted

$405k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+46%

Still filing today

70%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsRecreation & 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

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $57k · revenue +224%
  • COMPASS WORKING CAPITAL INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $53k · revenue +635%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    6× · 2017–2023 · $43k · revenue +162%

Funded once

  • PH
    PELICAN HARBOR
    one grant, 2024 · $9k
  • YC
    YOUTH CITIES INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • NE
    NEW ERA FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $4k
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
4
North Shore Health System Medical Faculty Group Practice

North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…

Health
5
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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9
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
10
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
11
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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12
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Miracle Network; the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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

56 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. 56 of the 90 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/56
Grantees still filing
42/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMPASS WORKING CAPITAL INC: $52,500 · OtherCOMPASS WORKING CAPITAL INCWELLESLEY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · OtherWELLESLEY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INCCAMILLIUS HOUSE: $47,912 · OtherCAMILLIUS HOUSEIndividual grant recipient: $21,997 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSt John Revolving Fund: $20,000 · OtherSt John Revolving FundPELICAN HARBOR: $9,245 · Other+49 more: $54,260 · Other+49 moreALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $57,100 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATIO…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $43,051 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $42,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLO…The Curetivity Foundation: $25,000 · HealthThe Curetivity FoundationST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,100 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL I…+9 more: $4,490 · HealthWALKER INC: $32,755 · EducationWALKER INCTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $29,000 · EducationTHE FRANCIS OUI…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $5,000 · EducationPresident and F…SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $3,000 · Education+3 more: $3,120 · EducationPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $6,335 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc: $5,000 · PhilanthropyGOFUNDMEORG: $1,213 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $448 · PhilanthropySPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $6,273 · Recreation & SportsFALMOUTH ROAD RACE INC: $500 · Recreation & SportsLOVE CITY STRONG INC: $3,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNETWORK FOR GOOD: $2,602 · Public Safety & DisasterALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $505 · Public Safety & DisasterOFF THE ROCKS ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $4,350 · Animals+2 more: $178 · Animals
Other$255,914Health$181,741Education$72,875Philanthropy$13,996Recreation & Sports$6,773Public Safety & Disaster$6,107Animals$4,528

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $57,100 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASS WORKING CAPITAL INC: $52,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWELLESLEY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $43,051 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWALKER INC: $32,755 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $29,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $6,335 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $6,273 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOFF THE ROCKS ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $4,350 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetLOVE CITY STRONG INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $2,602 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWELLESLEY SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $2,583 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetST JOHN SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetREDWOOD CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,065 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCORAL BAY COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $1,565 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC: $1,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WELLESLEY FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $1,305 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPLUGGED IN BAND PROGRAM INC: $1,282 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $1,213 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE INC: $1,020 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIMINI BIOLOGICAL FIELD STATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $885 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATICK COMMUNITY ORGANIC FARM INC: $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley Education Foundation Inc: $506 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $505 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFALMOUTH ROAD RACE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $355 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPHOPELIVE INC: $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $255 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Care Center Of St John Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $214 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD: $190 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEDESIA INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLES RIVER ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT 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.

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.

Eastern Cambridge Fou…Community Foundation …Middlesex Savings Cha…Community Foundation …GivenGain Foundation …Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for Good
Eastern Cambridge FoundationMA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands Inc · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · GivenGain Foundation USA · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Walker Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Compass Working Capital Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue League of Boston: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 90 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home