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Barbara Ann Baldridge Foundation WE453

Accepts applications San Antonio, Texas · EIN 862379956

Barbara Ann Baldridge Foundation WE453 is a private foundation in San Antonio, Texas. In tax year 2025 it gave $550,000 in 37 grants; the typical grant was $5,000 and the largest $220,000. It accepts applications; its filing gives the instructions below.

From its IRS Form 990-PF for tax year 2025.

Giving in 2025 was up from $500,000 the year before.

30% of its 2025 grantees had not received a grant from it the year before, a mix of repeat and new grantees.

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants paidNumber of grantsAssets
2023$312,25030$11.2 million
2024$500,00039$11.2 million
2025$550,00037$11.2 million

How to apply

ContactFrost Charitable Trust Committee
Attn B Witworth PO Box 33349, Fort Worth, TX 76162-3349
Phone or email(817) 420-5082
What to submitThe Grant request should be a written request with specific information related to the desired use of the grant and a copy of the recipients tax exempt letter from the IRS.
DeadlinesThere is no formal deadline for submitting request.
RestrictionsMust be an tax exempt organization

As written in the foundation's IRS filing for tax year 2025. Details may have changed since.

IRS filings on ProPublica

What Barbara Ann Baldridge Foundation WE453 funds

Where it gives

All of its grants went to recipients in Texas.

StateGrantsAmount
Texas37$550,000

Grants paid in 2025

All 37 grants
RecipientPurposeAmount
Trinity Valley School
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant$220,000
Texas Christian University Marisa LePak-Gift PlanningTcu
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant for$55,000
Arlington Heights United Methodist Church
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant for$55,000
Streams & Valleys Inc
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant$15,000
Boy Scouts of America
Hurst, TX
Unrestricted grant$15,000
All Saints Health Foundation
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant$15,000
Amphibian Productions Inc
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant for$15,000
Fort Worth Zoologocal Association
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant for$10,000
Cancer Care Services
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant$10,000
Womens Center of Tarrant County Inc
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant$10,000
The Warm Place
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant$10,000
John Peter Smith Hospital Family Medicin E Alumni Foundation
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant$10,000
Ut Southwestern Moncrief Cancer Center Moncrief C Institutancere
Fort Worht, TX
Unrestricted grant$10,000
Day Resource Center for the Homeless
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant$10,000
5 Stones Foundation Inc
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant$10,000
Meals On Wheels Inc
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant for$10,000
Pure Adventure
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant$5,000
Rivertree Academy Inc
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant$5,000
Texas Cultural Trust
Austin, TX
Unrestricted grant$5,000
Fort Worth Opera Association
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant$5,000
Casa Manana Inc
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant$5,000
Friends of the Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant for$5,000
Lvtrise
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant$5,000
Texas Ballet Theatre
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant for$5,000
Unbound Global
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant$5,000
How U Doin Foundation
Northplace, TX
Unrestricted grant$5,000
Fort Worth Junior Golf Foundation Inc
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant$2,500
United Community Centers Inc
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant$2,500
United Way of Metropolitan Tarrant Count Y
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant$2,500
Circle of Friends
Colleyville, TX
Unrestricted grant$2,500
Junior League of Fort Worth
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant$2,500
Fort Worth Youth Orchestra
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant$2,000
Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Fo Undation
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant$2,000
Neuro Assistance Foundation
Keller, TX
Unrestricted grant$1,000
Salvation Army Arlington
Arlington, TX
Unrestricted grant for$1,000
Fort Worth Museum of Science & History
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant$1,000
Shaken Baby Alliance
Fort Worth, TX
Unrestricted grant$500

Officers and trustees

As listed in Part VIII of the 2025 filing.

Questions people ask

Does Barbara Ann Baldridge Foundation WE453 accept grant applications?

Yes. Its latest IRS filing says it accepts applications, with this on deadlines: There is no formal deadline for submitting request..

How much does Barbara Ann Baldridge Foundation WE453 give?

$550,000 in tax year 2025, across 37 grants, with a typical grant of $5,000.

Who runs Barbara Ann Baldridge Foundation WE453?

Its 2025 filing lists Frost Bank (Trustee).

What does Barbara Ann Baldridge Foundation WE453 fund?

Based on its grants, mainly education, faith communities and health.

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