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Baker and Baker Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$34k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
60%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$11,900
Organizations funded a year
18 to 25
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$20k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Baker and Baker Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureAnimalsHealthEducationInternationalReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$34k20%
FY202420$37k60%
FY202321$136k43%
FY202225$112k48%
FY202118$70k33%
FY202018$81kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$147kPhilanthropy$104kHealth$54kArts & Culture$53kHuman Services$45kAnimals$40kEducation$10kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Columbia Museum of Art$40,00020%
United Way of the Midlands$40,00040%
Pawmetto Lifeline$28,67930%
Our Place of Hope$20,03264%
Welvista$11,20030%
Prisma Health$10,00010%
South Carolina Wildlife Federation$8,66660%
Harvest Hope Food Bank$5,00010%
Federation Center of the Blind$4,14061%
Sistercare Inc$3,10030%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($268k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Baker and Baker Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetColumbia Museum of Art: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Way of the Midlands: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPawmetto Lifeline: $28,679 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOur Place of Hope: $20,032 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetWelvista: $11,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPrisma Health: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Carolina Wildlife Federation: $8,666 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHarvest Hope Food Bank: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFederation Center of the Blind: $4,140 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSistercare Inc: $3,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJews United for Justice Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVarna International Music Academy: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRichland School District Two Education Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetJewish Educational Loan Fund Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWater Missions International: $2,417 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Greater South Carolina Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKids on Point Inc: $1,702 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMental Illness Recovery Center Inc: $1,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Legion Richland Post 6: $1,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetParkinson's Foundation Inc: $1,140 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $1,140 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Columbia Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMidlands Housing Alliance Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Legion: $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHilton Head Humane Association: $760 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Friendship: $702 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetParkinson Association of the Carolinas: $544 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEPIC Youth: $521 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPalmetto Animal League: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wild Animal Sanctuary: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends and Foundation of Richland Library: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAuntie Karen Foundation: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Central Carolina Community FoundationSC36.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Michael J Mungo Foundation · Dorothy D Smith Charitable Foundation · Lipscomb Family Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · The Leon Levine Foundation · The Wolfe Family Foundation · Kw Beverage Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Baker and Baker Foundation Inc

How much does Baker and Baker Foundation Inc give?
Baker and Baker Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $33,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Baker and Baker Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (31%), Philanthropy (22%), Health (11%).
Who are Baker and Baker Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Columbia Museum of Art ($40k), United Way of the Midlands ($40k), Pawmetto Lifeline ($29k).
Does Baker and Baker Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Baker and Baker Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Baker and Baker Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Carolina Community Foundation, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, Michael J Mungo Foundation.
Where is Baker and Baker Foundation Inc based?
Baker and Baker Foundation Inc is based in SC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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