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Baker and Baker Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$20k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,000
FEDERATION CENTER OF THE BLIND$1,000
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION$1,000
SISTERCARE INC$1,000
Individual grant recipient$800
CAROLINA THERAPEUTIC RIDING$600
KIDS ON POINT INC$500
DUKE CANCER INSTITUTE$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UKRAINE PATRIOT: $10k → 16%PAWMETTO LIFELINE: $12k → 11%MUSC FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%SC WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $3k → 16%JEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE: $2k → 14%JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND: $3k → 13%PAWMETTO LIFELINE: $11k → 11%SC WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $2k → 16%PAWMETTO LIFELINE: $6k → 11%MENTAL ILLNESS RECEOVERY CENTER: $1k → 16%WATER MISSION: $2k → 12%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $38k → 16%COLUMBIA JEWISH CENTER: $36k → 16%COLUMBIA JEWISH CENTER: $33k → 16%COLUMBIA JEWISH CENTER: $30k → 16%RICHLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT TWO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%USC DEVELOPMENT - ANNE FRANK SPONSORSHIP: $5k → 16%OUR PLACE OF HOPE: $5k → 16%OUR PLACE OF HOPE: $5k → 16%OUR PLACE OF HOPE: $3k → 16%OUR PLACE OF HOPE: $3k → 16%OUR PLACE OF HOPE: $2k → 16%OUR PLACE OF HOPE: $2k → 16%CHABAD OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $10k → 16%CHABAD OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $8k → 16%CHABAD OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $8k → 16%CHABAD OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $8k → 16%CHABAD OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $4k → 16%CHABAD OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $4k → 16%BETH SHALOM SYNAGOGUE: $2k → 16%TREE OF LIFE CONGREGATION: $2k → 16%TREE OF LIFE: $2k → 16%WELVISTA: $5k → 16%WELVISTA: $5k → 16%COLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART: $20k → 16%COLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART: $20k → 16%SC PHILHARMONIC: $19k → 16%SC PHILHARMONIC: $14k → 16%PRISMA HEALTH: $10k → 16%UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $10k → 16%UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $10k → 16%UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $10k → 16%UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $10k → 16%SC PHILHARMONIC: $7k → 16%SC PHILHARMONIC: $6k → 16%HARVEST HOPE: $5k → 16%VARNA INTERNATIONAL MUSIC ACADEMY: $3k → 16%AMERICAN LEGION RICHLAND POST 6: $2k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IN
OH
CO
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$412k · 27 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
30

Total granted

$412k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+11%

Still filing today

56%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsArts & CultureEducationInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS
    4× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +2%
  • PL
    PAWMETTO LIFELINE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $29k · revenue +2%
  • OP
    OUR PLACE OF HOPE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +225%

Funded once

  • PH
    Prisma Healthgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +124%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • HH
    HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -15%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sc Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.

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2
Leadership South Carolina

To provide South Carolinians an opportunity to advance their leadership skills while broadening their understanding of issues and opportunities facing the State.

Education
3
Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina

Convene and connect diverse stakeholders to align and catalyze efforts to improve health and well-being for communities across South Carolina.

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4
South Carolina Council On Competitiveness

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…

Community Improvement
5
South Carolina Policy Council Education Foundation

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…

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6
South Carolina Medical Association

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…

Membership Benefit
7
South Carolina Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
8
South Carolina Business & Industry Political Education Committee

Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.

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9
Nami South Carolina

The organization is dedicated to the eradication of mental illness and to the improvement of the quality of all lives affected by these diseases.

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10
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
11
South Carolina Farm Bureau Federation

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…

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12
South Carolina Association of Realtors

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Carolina Wildlife Federation; 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.
04the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
23/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLUMBIA JEWISH CENTER: $100,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA JEWISH CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $44,832 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHABAD OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $40,034 · OtherCHABAD OF SOUTH CAROLINAJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $38,800 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · Other+36 more: $56,159 · Other+36 moreOUR PLACE OF HOPE: $20,032 · HealthOUR PLACE O…WELVISTA: $11,200 · HealthWELVISTAPrisma Health: $10,000 · HealthPrisma Heal…FEDERATION CENTER OF THE BLIND: $4,140 · HealthFEDERATION …+3 more: $2,824 · Health+3 moreCOLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBIA M…Varna International Music Academy: $2,500 · Arts & CultureVarna Inte…+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $40,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…PAWMETTO LIFELINE: $28,679 · AnimalsPAWMETTO …SOUTH CAROLINA WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $8,666 · AnimalsSOUTH CAR…+3 more: $1,860 · AnimalsHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK: $5,000 · Food & NutritionWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $2,417 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $2,000 · International
Other$289,825Health$48,196Arts & Culture$43,500Philanthropy$40,000Animals$39,205Food & Nutrition$5,000International$4,417

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds COLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
  • 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 Varna International Music Academy ↗
  • Who funds RICHLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT TWO EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 Comm…Dominion Energy Chari…Michael J Mungo Found…Dorothy D Smith Chari…Lipscomb Family Found…The Nord Family Found…Publix Super Markets …First Citizens Founda…Sisters of Charity Fo…The Leon Levine Found…The Wolfe Family Foun…Kw Beverage Foundatio…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Baker and Baker Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Baker and Baker Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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