Barbara Ann Baldridge Foundation WE453
San Antonio, TX · EIN 86-2379956. Reported 118 grants totalling $1,639,500 to 64 recipients across tax years 2022-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
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. Barbara Ann Baldridge Foundation WE453 did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $10,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $220,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity Valley School | Fort Worth, TX | $701,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Arlington Heights United Methodist Church | Fort Worth, TX | $163,250 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Texas Christian University Marisa Lepak-Gift Planningtcu | Fort Worth, TX | $136,125 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Hurst, TX | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Amphibian Productions Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $55,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Fort Worth Zoologocal Association | Fort Worth, TX | $35,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Meals on Wheels Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $27,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Texas Christian University | Fort Worth, TX | $27,125 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| 5 Stones Foundation Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Baylor All Saints Medical School | Fort Worth, TX | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Cancer Care Services | Fort Worth, TX | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Jps Foundation | Fort Worth, TX | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Rivertree Academy Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Womens Center of Tarrant County Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| All Saints Health Foundation | Fort Worth, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Day Resource Center for the Homeless | Fort Worth, TX | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Streams & Valleys Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Warm Place | Fort Worth, TX | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Pure Adventure | Fort Worth, TX | $12,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| CASA Manana Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $11,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Friends of the Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge | Fort Worth, TX | $11,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Texas Ballet Theatre | Fort Worth, TX | $11,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Cancer Care Services Executive Director | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| John Peter Smith Hospital Family Medicin E Alumni Foundation | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Junior League of Fort Worth | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Presbyterian Night Shelter | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Presbyterian Night Shelter Attn Brenda Rios Vp of Development | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Salvation Army - Fort Worth | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Salvation Army - Fort Worth Area Command | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Streams and Valleys | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Texas Cultural Trust | Austin, TX | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Ut Southwestern Moncrief Cancer Center Moncrief C Institutancere | Fort Worht, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Fort Worth Opera Association | Fort Worth, TX | $8,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $7,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Slaughter Family Arts Awards | Fort Worth, TX | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fort Worth Report | Fort Worth, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| How U Doin Foundation | Northplace, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Hope Farm Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lvtrise | Fort Worth, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Safehaven of Tarrant County | Arlington, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Safehaven of Tarrant County Liz Tumlinson - Vp of Finance | Arlington, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Unbound Global | Fort Worth, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| United Community Centers Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Fo Undation | Fort Worth, TX | $4,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Fort Worth Youth Orchestra | Fort Worth, TX | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Fort Worth Museum of Science & History | Fort Worth, TX | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Neuro Assistance Foundation | Keller, TX | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Salvation Army Arlington | Arlington, TX | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Above the Clouds Kids Norwood Memorial Airport | Norwood, MA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Circle of Friends | Colleyville, TX | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Fort Worth Junior Golf Foundation Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Helping Restore Ability | Arlington, TX | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Art of Living Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Way of Metropolitan Tarrant Count Y | Fort Worth, TX | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| American Heart Association Attn Sarah Rumschlag | St Petersburg, FL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| B Noble Farms Foundation for Rescued Ani Mals | Argyle, TX | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ballet Frontier of Texas | Fort Worth, TX | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cnm - Fort Worth | Fort Worth, TX | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Fort Worth Library | Fort Worth, TX | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Healing and Mental Health Proj Ect | Mansfield, TX | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fort Worth Public Library Foundation Central Circulation | Fort Worth, TX | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Andrew Conference Saint Andrew Catholic Parish | Fort Worth, TX | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Village Library | Hurst, TX | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Shaken Baby Alliance | Fort Worth, TX | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
29 of 64 (45%) 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 64%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 60 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 12 | $277,250 | $5,500 |
| 2023 | 30 | $312,250 | $4,000 |
| 2024 | 39 | $500,000 | $5,000 |
| 2025 | 37 | $550,000 | $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
100% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Texas.
- 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.
- 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 Barbara Ann Baldridge Foundation WE453's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2022-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: P O Box 2950 Tax Dept Floor 5, San Antonio, TX, 78299. 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.
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