· Private foundation
Vaughn T Baird 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EAST-WEST MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| REDEEMER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $4,000 |
| DISCIPLESHIP UNLIMITED | $3,500 |
| CROSSPOINT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $2,000 |
| KENAI CLASSICAL SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| COMPUTERS FOR THE BLIND | $1,500 |
| FIRST STREET CHURCH OF CHRIST | $1,500 |
| TEMPLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $1,500 |
| JAIL MINISTRY | $1,500 |
| HOPE PREGNANCY CENTER | $1,500 |
| THE NAVIGATORS | $1,500 |
| TEMPLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| RANSOMED LIFE | $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 (FY22–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
15 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +40%
- CFCOMPUTERS FOR THE BLIND4× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +24%
- TETEMPLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- TBTEMPLE BIBLE CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $1k
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 reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost
Religious
Acts 13 christian ministries is dedicated to fulfilling the command of our lord jesus christ to spread the gospel among the unsaved, and strengthen the church-at-large through the proclamation of much-needed, yet often neglected, truths…
Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Religious Purposes
To transform the lives of prisoners, their families, and victims through a global network of ministry partners.
Go & Tell Ministries exists to teach and proclaim the Gospel message to the ends of the earth through the use of teaching, preaching and social outreach programs.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.
Our mission is to establish, train and encourage followers of Jesus Christ to grow in their faith, and become active in serving Him.
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
To bring the gospel of jesus christ to those who have never heard it and take care of orphans
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 17 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.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vaughn T Baird Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vaughn T Baird Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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