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The C B Baird JR Foundation

Dallas, TX · EIN 20-6350779. Reported 42 grants totalling $317,839 to 29 organizations across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$317,839granted, 2020-2024
29organizations funded
36%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,150,527assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The C B Baird JR Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $6,000; the smallest was $3,000 and the largest $41,900. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
3 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
33 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
3 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Gunnison Council for the Arts IncGunnison, CO$96,272332024
All Saints Health FoundationDallas, TX$22,500332024
Literacy UnitedFort Worth, TX$21,000442024
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Tarrant CountyFort Worth, TX$19,279222024
Fort Worth Country Day School IncFort Worth, TX$17,500222023
Camp Fire First TexasFort Worth, TX$10,000222023
Hill School of Fort Worth IncFort Worth, TX$10,000222023
Shaken Baby AllianceFort Worth, TX$10,000222022
Texas Conservation AllianceDallas, TX$9,000222022
Kinderplatz of Fine Arts IncFort Worth, TX$8,600112021
Tarrant County Association for the BlindFort Worth, TX$7,000112022
After-School All-StarsDallas, TX$5,000112024
Big Brothers and Big Sisters Lone StarIrving, TX$5,000112021
Botanical Research Institure of Texas IncFort Worth, TX$5,000112022
Botanical Research Institute of Texas IncFort Worth, TX$5,000112021
Breakthrough at Fort Worth Country DayFort Worth, TX$5,000112024
Canine Companions for IndependenceIrving, TX$5,000112024
Community Partners of Tarrant County IncFort Worth, TX$5,000112022
Cristo Rey Fort Worth High School IncFort Worth, TX$5,000112024
Fort Worth Museum of Science and HistoryFort Worth, TX$5,000112024
New Hope Equine Assisted TherapyArgyle, TX$5,000112020
Out TeachDallas, TX$5,000112024
Real School GardensDallas, TX$5,000112022
Rivertree Academy IncFort Worth, TX$5,000112024
Texas Academy of Faith and ArtsArlington, TX$5,000112023
The Artist OutreachDallas, TX$5,000112022
YMCA of Metropolitan Fort WorthFort Worth, TX$5,000112023
Art StationFort Worth, TX$3,688112023
You Gotta Believe Football CampFort Worth, TX$3,000112024

9 of 29 (31%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 36%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

Plus 13 grants to individuals totalling $134,001 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 35 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
11 grants
Youth Development
7 grants
Arts & Culture
4 grants
Human Services
4 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Animal Welfare
2 grants
Mental Health
1 grant
Recreation & Sports
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20203$15,000$5,000
20215$27,600$5,000
202213$114,900$5,000
20239$72,814$5,000
202412$87,525$5,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 70% of this one's giving went to organizations in Texas. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Texas
$222K
Colorado
$96K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Thomas M Helen Mckee & John P Ryan Fo14 shared recipientsCommunities Foundation of Texas Inc14 shared recipientsCommunity Foundation of North Texas (tax13 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund13 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc9 shared recipientsPaul E Andrews JR Foundation9 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Texas.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The C B Baird JR Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 653067, Dallas, TX, 75265. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 20-6350779 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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