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Henrietta Aigner and Joy Baldwin

Bend, OR · EIN 46-3550368. Reported 44 grants totalling $497,436 to 35 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$497,436granted, 2021-2024
35organizations funded
38%of grantees funded again the next year
$3,994,219assets, 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. Henrietta Aigner and Joy Baldwin 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 $2,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $45,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
18 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
6 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
10 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
10 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
Ultimate ImpactOakland, CA$100,000442024
All OptionsOakland, CA$91,200332024
Right By YouBeaverton, OR$60,000222024
Oregon State University FoundationCorvallis, OR$30,000222022
Shepherd's House MinistriesBend, OR$25,000112024
Take Back the CourtSan Francisco, CA$25,000112021
Dawns HouseBend, OR$22,000222022
Maac ProjectChula Vista, CA$20,000112022
The Circuit EpaEast Palo Alto, CA$20,000112023
PctaSacramento, CA$15,000112022
Cascade Outh & Family CenterBend, OR$10,000112021
Friends of the Great CommisionColorado Springs, CO$10,000112023
Hope HouseSpokane, WA$10,000112021
Anchors Outdoor AdventuresVancouver, WA$5,000112024
Guns Down AmericaYoungstown, OH$5,000112022
Reading Tea PartnersOakland, CA$5,000112024
The Tender OrganizationAtlanta, GA$5,000112021
Vamonos OutsideBend, OR$5,000112024
The Tender FoundationAtlanta, GA$4,160222023
Mohonk PreserveNew Paltz, NY$2,076112024
211 San DiegoSan Diego, CA$2,000112022
Als Association Oregon and Sw Washington ChapterPortland, OR$2,000112022
Bay Area Disc AssociationSan Francisco, CA$2,000112022
Cure Alzheimer's FundWellesley Hills, MA$2,000112022
Dorothy Day House BerkeleyBerkeley, CA$2,000112022
East Oakland CollectiveOakland, CA$2,000112022
Family Promise of SpokaneSpokane, WA$2,000112022
Health Care CoalitionsSacramento, CA$2,000112024
Missouri Abortion FundStlouis, MO$2,000112022
The Fistula FoundationSan Jose, CA$2,000112024
Thrive Central OregonRedmond, OR$2,000112021
Urban PeakDenver, CO$2,000112024
Voter's Edge CaliforniaHudson, NH$2,000112022
Middle East Children's AllianceBerkeley, CA$1,000112023
The National Center for Family PhilanthropyWashington, DC$1,000112024

6 of 35 (17%) 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 38%, across 3 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 27 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
6 grants
Youth Development
5 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
3 grants
Environment
2 grants
Housing & Shelter
2 grants
Education
2 grants
Civil Rights
2 grants
Health Care
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20218$114,000$11,000
202217$130,000$2,000
20237$134,360$20,000
202412$119,076$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. 58% of this one's giving went to organizations in California. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

California
$289K
Oregon
$156K
Washington
$17K
Colorado
$12K
Georgia
$9K
Ohio
$5K
New York
$2K
Missouri
$2K

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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.

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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 California.
  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 Henrietta Aigner and Joy Baldwin'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: 1889 Nw Hartford Ave, Bend, OR, 97703. 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 46-3550368 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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