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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
UNION GOSPEL MISSION - DALLAS$10,000
AUSTIN STREET CENTER$10,000
OUTLOUD$10,000
ACT FOUNDATION$10,000
THE WARM PLACE$10,000
UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY$10,000
CANDLELIGHT RANCH$10,000
PROJECT 4031$10,000
CRISTO REY FORT WORTH COLLEGE PREP$10,000
THE ARTIST OUTREACH$10,000
DALLAS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$10,000
FUNKYTOWN FOOD PROJECT$10,000
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 (FY17–24, $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 its 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%BRAVELOVE: $8k → 14%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $10k → 11%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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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 ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • L
    LVTRISE
    3× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +43%
  • 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

  • MH
    MERCY HOUSE
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • CO
    CITY OF ROCKPORTMEMORIAL FIELD
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • PB
    Prevent Blindness Texasgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +26%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Promise House Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

99 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. 99 of the 166 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)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/99
Grantees still filing
74/99
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LVTRISE: $40,000 · Other+107 more: $1,107,121 · Other+107 moreHOPE FARM INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesHOPE FARM INCVOGEL ALCOVE: $20,000 · Human ServicesVOGEL ALCOVEBRAVELOVE 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 ServicesHEART HOUSE: $10,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH: $10,000 · Human ServicesWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT 4031 INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $10,000 · Human ServicesJULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN & FAMILY INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesWAXAHACHIE CARE SERVICES 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…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER WICHITA FALLS AREA: $15,000 · EducationCOMMUNITI…OUT TEACH: $15,000 · EducationOUT TEACHSan Francisco Nativity Academy: $14,000 · EducationSan Franc…KING'S ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationKING'S AC…CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationCORNERSTO…WILKINSON CENTER: $10,000 · EducationWILKINSON…PELOTONU INC: $8,000 · EducationPELOTONU …BEACON HILL PREPARATORY INSTITUTE: $7,500 · EducationArtist Outreach Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureVan Cliburn Foundation Inc: $20,000 · 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 & CultureDALLAS CHAMBER SYMPHONY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureIMAGINATION FORT WORTH: $9,000 · Arts & CultureBallet Concerto Inc: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WORTH CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER: $11,602 · HealthHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · HealthMOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10,000 · HealthSIMPLY GRACE: $10,000 · HealthNexus Recovery Center Incorporated: $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 & LegalTrinity Restoration Ministries: $5,000 · Crime & LegalTraffick911: $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 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 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 budgetArtist Outreach Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetVan Cliburn Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMETHODIST JUSTICE MINISTRY OF FUMC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILY COMPASS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE FARM INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY STOREHOUSE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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 budgetMI ESCUELITA PRESCHOOL INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER WICHITA FALLS AREA: $15,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetOUT TEACH: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Food Bank: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLITERACY UNITED INC: $15,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetRecovery Resource Council: $15,000 over 2y, 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 budgetPROMISE HOUSE INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORT WORTH CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER: $11,602 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTREASURED VESSELS FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHEART HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOGETHER WE THRIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetDALLAS BETHLEHEM CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTEXAS ACADEMY 4: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT 4031 INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR ROCKWALL COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSIMPLY GRACE: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% 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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    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.
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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 166 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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