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Baker Charitable Trust

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$114k
Granted FY2021
14
Grants FY2021
13
Organizations funded FY2021
92%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$6,523
Largest grant, FY2021
$19,526
Organizations funded a year
2 to 13
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
8
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 92% of the organizations Baker Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 81% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202113$104k92%
FY20202$4kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Religion$36kCivil Rights$32kEducation$16kEnvironment$10kPhilanthropy$10kInternational$7kScience & Tech$6k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CA
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Temple of Israel$13,1031n/a
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$12,93110%
Hias Inc$6,52310%
Sierra Club Foundation$3,44510%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$3,21810%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($68k), not named here.

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About Baker Charitable Trust

How much does Baker Charitable Trust give?
Baker Charitable Trust reported 14 grants totaling $113,943 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does Baker Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Religion (31%), Civil Rights (28%), Education (14%).
Who are Baker Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2021: Temple of Israel ($13k), Southern Poverty Law Center Inc ($13k), Hias Inc ($7k).
Does Baker Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 92% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Baker Charitable Trust 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.
Where is Baker Charitable Trust based?
Baker Charitable Trust 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 15 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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