· Private foundation
William Robert Baird Charitable Trust
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $33,609 |
| THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION | $31,741 |
| LOVES' KITCHEN | $30,501 |
| WESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER | $25,343 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $24,608 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $19,158 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $14,907 |
| MERIDIAN FREEDOM PROJECT | $14,907 |
| MISSISSIPPI SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $14,906 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EAST MISSISSIPPI | $14,874 |
| HOPE VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN | $14,874 |
| CHOCTAW AREA COUNCIL BSA | $14,874 |
| CARE LODGE | $14,874 |
| NEW DESTINY DAYCARE & LEARNING CENTER | $14,873 |
| MCCSA | $14,873 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–26, $271k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 23%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 66% of William Robert Baird Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in MS; read by stated purpose it is 61% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2026, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WHWESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC8× · 2019–2026 · $155k · revenue +69%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST MISSISSIPPI10× · 2017–2026 · $150k · revenue +75%
- CLCARE LODGE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC10× · 2017–2026 · $134k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CHOCTAW AREA COUNCIL #302one grant, 2017 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To improve the quality of life in our community through crisis intervention and violence prevention.
To provide food, shelter, medication, transportation, advocacy and counseling for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, as well as for their family members.
To provide safe shelter, advocacy, counseling, referrals and support to all victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to ending child abuse through education, advocacy, counseling, family support, and the pursuit of justice.
Childrens Village was established as a refuge for dependent, destitute children in need of service and care
Promote safety, self-sufficiency, hope and healing to those effected by abuse.
Provide assistance to victims of domestic violence
The center's mission is to advocate and support social change that will result in non-violent relationships, homes and communities through public education, direct services, a haven and programs related to the issues of domestic and sexual…
To promote a violence free atmosphere from domestic and sexual violence in which survivors can recognize their options to have the opportunity to continue living violence free and regain their sense of self-worth; to educate and raise…
Hope crisis center provides crisis line services and shelter to domestic violence and sexual assault victims
Victory Center Ministries is dedicated to providing services for families, men, and women with children in need. Most importantly, a caring and supportive environment is provided where lives are changed and individuals regain their…
Providing emergency shelter and other services to persons battered and or abused, commonly referred to as domestic violence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Care Lodge Domestic Violence Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Greater New Orleans Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds LAUDERDALE OUTREACH & VOL EFFORT ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds CARE LODGE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINIC OF MERIDIAN INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: United Way of East Mississippiinc · The Paul and Sherry Broadhead Foundation · The Riley Foundation · Community Foundation of East Mississippi · Mississippi Food Network Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 William Robert Baird Charitable Trust 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.
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.