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The Ninnie L Baird Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$291k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$493kEducation$312kHealth$158kFood & Nutrition$134kYouth Development$120kRecreation & Sports$105kArts & Culture$104kHousing & Shelter$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $245k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OUR FRIENDS PLACE$15,000
LVTRISE$15,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSION - TARRANT$15,000
ACT FOUNDATION$10,000
CRISTO REY FORT WORTH COLLEGE PREP$10,000
GILL CHILDREN'S SERVICES$10,000
CANDLELIGHT RANCH$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
PROJECT 4031$10,000
TOGETHER WE THRIVE$10,000
FUNKYTOWN FOOD PROJECT$10,000
OUTLOUD$10,000
24 HOUR CLUB$10,000
THE ARTIST OUTREACH$10,000
METHODIST JUSTICE MINISTRY$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $229k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TREASURED VESSELS FOUNDATION: $11k → 5%GIRLS EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $5k → 10%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 16%LORETO HOUSE: $5k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES FORT WORTH: $10k → 11%BEHIND EVERY DOOR: $10k → 14%BRAVE LOVE: $8k → 14%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $10k → 11%BRAVELOVE: $8k → 14%BRIGHTER TOMORROWS: $5k → 14%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $15k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $10k → 14%CHILDREN & FAMILY INSTITUTE: $10k → 11%HOPE FARM: $10k → 11%HOPE FARM: $10k → 11%PROJECT 4031: $10k → 11%WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $5k → 14%JULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES: $10k → 14%CORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWORK: $10k → 11%METROCREST SERVICES: $8k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $8k → 14%NORTHSIDE INTER-COMMUNITY: $10k → 11%NORTHSIDE INTER-COMMUNITY AGENCY: $5k → 11%WESTAID: $7k → 11%LENA POPE: $8k → 11%LENA POPE: $7k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$672k · 34 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
112

Total granted

$672k
$963k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+24%

Still filing today

74%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k 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
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • L
    LVTRISE
    3× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +19%
  • CR
    CANDLELIGHT RANCH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2024 · $35k · revenue +101%
  • CH
    Christ's Haven for Children Inc
    2× · 2020–2023 · $25k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF ROCKPORTMEMORIAL FIELD
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • MH
    MERCY HOUSE
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • MO
    MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +2%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
2
Tip of Texas Family Outreach Inc

To strengthen families through parenting classes educational programs, youth programs and referral services for the prevention of child abuse and neglect.

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3
Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc

Fort Bend County Child Advocates, Inc. provides a voice, heals the hurt and breaks the cycle of abuse and neglect for children in Fort Bend County.

Civil Rights
4
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
5
Lone Star Casa Inc

Lone Star CASA elevates the voices of children in Kaufman and Rockwall County who have experienced abuse and neglect by providing trained volunteer advocates to work alongside children and families so they can achieve safety and stability…

Civil Rights
6
Childrens Advocacy Center of West Texas Inc

The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.

Crime & Legal
7
Elevate North Texas

Elevate North Texas offers a welcoming and affirming environment for youth 18-24 experiencing homelessness providing short-term housing and case management. Elevate North Texas addresses youth homelessness from two angles: a hotel program…

Health
8
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
9
Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center

To engage and educate communities to prevent sexual violence and to support survivors and their loved ones as they heal and thrive.

Human Services
10
Hope's Door New Beginning Center

The mission of hope's door new beginning center is to offer intervention and prevention services to individuals and families affected by intimate partner and family violence and to provide education programs that enhance the community's…

Human Services
11
Dallas County Family Resource Center

The mission of Dallas County Family Resource Center is to provide programs to improve the quality of resources and well-being of the children and families in the community by intake, assessment, and referral of those in need to available…

Human Services
12
His Story Coaching and Counseling

Christian coaching, counseling, assessment and consulting services to the communities of Tarrant County, Texas.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Promise House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trinity Restoration Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFamily Support ServicesSenior and Disabled HousingDallas Community FoundationsPerforming Arts Organizatio…Regional Business ChambersPerforming Arts Organizatio…Independent Schools and Aca…Affordable Housing & Homele…Christian Evangelical Minis…Youth & Family Support Serv…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr17%4%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr9%29%35–55yr13%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr17%6%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr9%35%35–55yr13%16%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/106
the rest of the field
17%
4,114/23,852

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

99 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. 99 of the 166 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/99
Grantees still filing
74/99
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LVTRISE — $40,000 · Other+107 more — $1,107,121 · Other+107 moreVOGEL ALCOVE — $20,000 · Human ServicesVOGEL ALCOVEHOPE FARM INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesHOPE FARM INCBRAVELOVE INC — $15,500 · Human ServicesBRAVELOVE INCNORTHSIDE INTERCOMMUNITY AGENCY INC — $15,424 · Human ServicesNORTHSIDE INTERC…METROCREST SERVICES — $15,200 · Human ServicesMETROCREST SERVI…MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesMEN OF NEHEMIAH …LENA POPE HOME INC — $14,894 · Human ServicesLENA POPE HOME I…TREASURED VESSELS FOUNDATION — $11,000 · Human ServicesJULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH — $10,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES — $10,000 · Human ServicesWAXAHACHIE CARE SERVICES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesHEART HOUSE — $10,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN & FAMILY INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT 4031 INC — $10,000 · Human Services+6 more — $31,500 · Human Services+6 moreEDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS — $35,000 · EducationEDUCATION…GILL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $23,000 · EducationGILL CHIL…OUT TEACH — $15,000 · EducationOUT TEACHCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER WICHITA FALLS AREA — $15,000 · EducationCOMMUNITI…San Francisco Nativity Academy — $14,000 · EducationSan Franc…CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY — $10,000 · EducationCORNERSTO…WILKINSON CENTER — $10,000 · EducationWILKINSON…KING'S ACADEMY — $10,000 · EducationKING'S AC…PELOTONU INC — $8,000 · EducationPELOTONU …BEACON HILL PREPARATORY INSTITUTE — $7,500 · EducationArtist Outreach Inc — $20,000 · Arts & CultureVan Cliburn Foundation Inc — $20,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS CHAMBER SYMPHONY — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY — $10,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — $10,000 · Arts & CultureIMAGINATION FORT WORTH — $9,000 · Arts & CultureBallet Concerto Inc — $5,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WORTH CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER — $11,602 · HealthSIMPLY GRACE — $10,000 · HealthMOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC — $10,000 · HealthNexus Recovery Center Incorporated — $10,000 · HealthHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 · HealthCANCER CARE SERVICES — $7,000 · HealthTexas Health Resources — $5,000 · HealthRAINBOW DAYS INC — $5,000 · HealthCANDLELIGHT RANCH FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Recreation & SportsRISE ADVENTURES INC — $20,699 · Recreation & SportsFAMILY COMPASS — $20,000 · Crime & LegalTHE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR ROCKWALL COUNTY — $10,000 · Crime & LegalEXODUS MINISTRIES — $8,155 · Crime & LegalNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE — $5,500 · Crime & LegalTraffick911 — $5,000 · Crime & LegalTrinity Restoration Ministries — $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,147,121Human Services$258,518Education$147,500Arts & Culture$94,000Health$68,602Recreation & Sports$55,699Crime & Legal$53,655

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLVTRISE — $40,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCANDLELIGHT RANCH FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetEDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS — $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetChrist's Haven for Children Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGILL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $23,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetRISE ADVENTURES INC — $20,699 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMETHODIST JUSTICE MINISTRY OF FUMC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetArtist Outreach Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHOPE FARM INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY COMPASS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY STOREHOUSE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVan Cliburn Foundation Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREADERS 2 LEADERS — $19,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBRAVELOVE INC — $15,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetNORTHSIDE INTERCOMMUNITY AGENCY INC — $15,424 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMETROCREST SERVICES — $15,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRecovery Resource Council — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEN OF NEHEMIAH INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLITERACY UNITED INC — $15,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetCROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOUT TEACH — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMI ESCUELITA PRESCHOOL INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER WICHITA FALLS AREA — $15,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCommunity Food Bank — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUR FRIENDS PLACE — $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLENA POPE HOME INC — $14,894 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC — $14,040 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSan Francisco Nativity Academy — $14,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMY POSSIBILITIES — $13,355 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROMISE HOUSE INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFORT WORTH CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER — $11,602 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTREASURED VESSELS FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAXAHACHIE CARE SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALLEN COMMUNITY OUTREACH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSHILOH PLACE MCKINNEY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEART HOUSE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDALLAS CHAMBER SYMPHONY — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR ROCKWALL COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTOGETHER WE THRIVE — $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetWILKINSON CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

The Rees-Jones Founda…Communities Foundatio…Thomas M Helen McKee …Gil and Dody Weaver F…Community Foundation …United Way of Metropo…The Moody FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…W P & Bulah Luse Foun…Hillcrest FoundationThe Dallas FoundationGarvey Texas Foundati…
The Rees-Jones FoundationTX96.2× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rees-Jones Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Gil and Dody Weaver Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Moody Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc

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 Ninnie L Baird 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    41report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Ninnie L Baird Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Ninnie L Baird Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 166 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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