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Baumberger Endowment

San Antonio, TX · EIN 23-7225925. Reported 81 grants totalling $5,238,475 to 26 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$11,770median grant
$5,238,475granted, 2021-2024
26organizations funded
94%of grantees funded again the next year
$33.4Massets, 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. Baumberger Endowment 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 $11,770. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,885 and $52,830; the smallest was $2,500 and the largest $517,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
4 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
25 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
22 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
9 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
9 grants
$100,000 and Up
12 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
University of Texas AustinAustin, TX$1,814,300442024
University of Texas San AntonioSan Antonio, TX$1,114,405442024
Texas A&m UniversityCollege Station, TX$1,014,105442024
Texas State UniversitySan Marcos, TX$261,580442024
Texas A&m University San AntonioSan Antonio, TX$238,620442024
Trinity UniversitySan Antonio, TX$175,550442024
Texas Tech UniversityLubbock, TX$126,060442024
University of North TexasDenton, TX$77,155442024
University of HoustonHouston, TX$64,905442024
San Antonio CollegeSan Antonio, TX$44,655442024
University of Texas DallasRichardson, TX$41,270442024
Rice UniversityHouston, TX$39,885442024
St Edwards UniversityAustin, TX$38,270442024
Austin CollegeSherman, TX$35,520442024
Texas Woman's UniversityDenton, TX$27,385442024
University of Texas Health Sciences CenterSan Antonio, TX$24,750222024
Northwest Vista CollegeSan Antonio, TX$19,135442024
Angelo State UniversitySan Angelo, TX$16,885332024
St Phillip's CollegeSan Antonio, TX$16,885332024
Texas A&m University Corpus ChristiCorpus Christi, TX$13,635332023
West Texas A&m UniversityCanyon, TX$11,000112024
Palo Alto CollegeSan Antonio, TX$5,885112022
Texas Tech University Health Sciences CenterLubbock, TX$5,885112022
University of Texas ArlingtonArlington, TX$5,500112024
Texas Southern UniversityHouston, TX$2,750112024
Univ of Texas Health Science Ctr - San AntonioSan Antonio, TX$2,500112021

20 of 26 (77%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 94%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
24 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
4 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202118$1,242,500$13,750
202221$1,438,995$11,770
202320$1,280,980$11,000
202422$1,276,000$11,000

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

Austin, TX
$1.9M
San Antonio, TX
$1.6M
College Station, TX
$1.0M
San Marcos, TX
$262K
Lubbock, TX
$132K
Houston, TX
$108K
Denton, TX
$105K
Richardson, TX
$41K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund9 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc8 shared recipientsMichael & Susan Dell Foundation8 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc7 shared recipientsThe Robert a Welch Foundation7 shared recipientsTulsa Community Foundation7 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $11,770. 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 Baumberger Endowment's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 7201 Broadway Suite 300, San Antonio, TX, 78209. 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 23-7225925 · 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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