· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PAWMETTO LIFELINE | $11,900 |
| OUR PLACE OF HOPE | $4,500 |
| CHABAD OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $4,000 |
| MUSC FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| JEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE | $1,250 |
| SC WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $1,100 |
| SC APPLESEED LEGAL JUSTICE CENTER | $1,100 |
| FEDERATION CENTER OF THE BLIND | $1,000 |
| SISTERCARE INC | $1,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $800 |
| CAROLINA THERAPEUTIC RIDING | $600 |
| DUKE CANCER INSTITUTE | $500 |
| KIDS ON POINT INC | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 90% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS4× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +2%
- PLPAWMETTO LIFELINE3× · 2023–2025 · $29k · revenue +2%
- OPOUR PLACE OF HOPE6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +225%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
- PHPrisma Healthone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -10%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
To provide South Carolinians an opportunity to advance their leadership skills while broadening their understanding of issues and opportunities facing the State.
Convene and connect diverse stakeholders to align and catalyze efforts to improve health and well-being for communities across South Carolina.
The south carolina council on competitiveness is a nonpartisan, business-led non-profit organization committed to advancing the long term competitiveness of south carolina through actionable research, support of industry clusters and…
The south carolina policy council was founded in 1986 as an independent, private, non-partisan research organization to promote the principles of limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty and responsibility in the state…
The scma's purpose is to serve south carolina physicians and to support their efforts to provide high quality medical care and to promote good health for all citizens of the state. the scma accomplishes the stated purposes through…
South carolina legal services is a statewide law firm that provides civil legal services to protect the rights and represent the interests of low income south carolinians.
Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.
The organization is dedicated to the eradication of mental illness and to the improvement of the quality of all lives affected by these diseases.
The sc farm bureau federation is a statewide organization that brings together farmers, ranchers, entrepreneurs, agribusiness professionals and food enthusiasts to strengthen the future of agriculture in south carolina. we inform lawmakers…
Nonprofit Trade Association for South Carolina Real Estate Business providing a facility for professional development, research, and exchange of information among members and the public in order to preserve the right to own, use, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Carolina Wildlife Federation and the most unlike its peers is Junior Achievement of Greater South Carolina Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 60 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds PAWMETTO LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds OUR PLACE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds WELVISTA ↗
- Who funds Prisma Health ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION CENTER OF THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds SISTERCARE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT TWO EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Varna International Music Academy ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS ON POINT INC ↗
- Who funds Mental Illness Recovery Center Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION RICHLAND POST 6 ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA APPLESEED LEGAL JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Historic Columbia Foundation ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Baker and Baker Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.