Connecticut · Private foundation
Walter & Merle Baum Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $465k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 18
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Walter & Merle Baum Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $465k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $450k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $443k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $395k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $480k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $400k | 83% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $410k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hopkins School Incorporated | $175,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Adam J Lewis Academy Inc | $165,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Fairfield University | $150,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Milford Inc | $105,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Sterling House Community Center Inc | $105,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Mha Merton House LLC | $80,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Connecticut Yankee Council Inc Boy Scouts of America | $75,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Norwalk Symphony Society Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Catholic Charities of Fairfield County Inc | $65,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Walter & Merle Baum Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · The Near and Far Association Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Young Mens Christian Association of Westport/Weston Ct Inc · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · The John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · Alexander Family Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Walter & Merle Baum Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Walter & Merle Baum Foundation Inc
- How much does Walter & Merle Baum Foundation Inc give?
- Walter & Merle Baum Foundation Inc reported 16 grants totaling $465,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Walter & Merle Baum Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (52%), Religion (19%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are Walter & Merle Baum Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Hopkins School Incorporated ($175k), Adam J Lewis Academy Inc ($165k), Fairfield University ($150k).
- Does Walter & Merle Baum Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Walter & Merle Baum Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Walter & Merle Baum Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Ge Aerospace Foundation, The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven.
- Where is Walter & Merle Baum Foundation Inc based?
- Walter & Merle Baum Foundation Inc is based in CT.
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