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Thebaronproject Inc at a glance

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Thebaronproject Inc

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.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$2k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$9kFood & Nutrition$6kEducation$3kCrime & Legal$2kArts & Culture$1kInternational$1kHealth$800Philanthropy$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$300
Median grant
6
States reached
$41k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARAKLETE GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP FUND$1,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$1,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$1,000
RED DOOR FOOD PANTRY$500
BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM$300
GEORGIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING$200
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAHOPLAND RESEARCH$200
FEEDING AMERICA$150
MISSOULA MT FOOD BANK$150
AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$50
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 (FY19–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 12%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

MT
IL
WI
NY
CA
DE
DC
GA
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16k · 10 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

$16k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+27%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionInternationalHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    6× · 2019–2025 · $6k · revenue +39%
  • AC
    ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $2k · revenue +55%
  • AF
    ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1k · revenue +259%

Funded once

  • WC
    WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +27%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF BARTOW COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +17%
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
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
2
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
3
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
4
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
5
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
6
Aid for Starving Children

Aid For Starving Children provides assistance around the world to children and their families by providing food, shelter, clean water, financial assistance, education, and emergency relief to victims of famine, natural disasters, and war.

International
7
Community Food Bank of New Jersey Inc

We serve as a champion for addressing the root causes of hunger, delivering neighbor-centric solutions, and fostering collaborative partnerships across all sectors of society for New Jersey.

Food & Nutrition
8
Harvesters - the Community Food Network

Harvesters mobilizes the power of our community to create equitable access to nutritious food and address the root causes and impact of hunger.

Food & Nutrition
9
Food Bank Association of New York State

The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…

Food & Nutrition
10
Federation of Virginia Food Banks

Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.

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11
Foodshare Inc

Foodshare is leading an informed, coordinated response to hunger as part of the overall community effort to alleviate poverty in hartford and tolland counties.

—
12
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Inc

The mission of the regional food bank of oklahoma is to lead a network that provides nutritious food and pathways to self-sufficiency for people facing hunger. our vision is an oklahoma where no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc; the most unlike its peers is Red Door Food Pantry Inc. 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

14 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. 14 of the 24 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)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPARAKLETE GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $1,500 · OtherPARAKLETE GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP FUNDADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,450 · OtherADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $1,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHENGEORGIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $880 · OtherGEORGIA PUBLIC BROADCASTINGTRANQUILITY HOUSE: $550 · OtherTRANQUILITY HOUSEUNITED WAY OF BARTOW COUNTY INC: $500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAHOPLAND RESEARCH: $450 · Other+4 more: $700 · Other+4 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,725 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross …ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $1,650 · Food & NutritionATLANTA COMMUNITY…MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,250 · Food & NutritionMISSOULA FOOD BAN…Red Door Food Pantry Inc: $500 · Food & NutritionRed Door Food Pan…Feeding America: $150 · Food & NutritionUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,023 · InternationalUNITED STA…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,000 · InternationalWORLD CENT…+1 more: $50 · InternationalTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR WILDLIFE SUSTAINABILITY INC: $100 · AnimalsAURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $50 · Philanthropy
Other$10,030Human Services$5,725Food & Nutrition$3,550International$2,073Education$1,000Health$500Animals$100Philanthropy$50

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 budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,725 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $1,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,023 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BARTOW COUNTY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WILDLIFE SUSTAINABILITY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $50 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.

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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 Thebaronproject Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thebaronproject Inc. 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%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 24 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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