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Baker Foundation of Burleson Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$199k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$327kFood & Nutrition$287kReligion$215kHuman Services$195kEducation$187kCrime & Legal$120kYouth Development$46kCivil Rights$26k
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $176k
$11,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRAZY 8 MINISTRIES$25,000
MEALS ON WHEELS JOHNSON COUNTY$23,000
PROMISES FOOD PANTRY - 1ST BAPTIST$20,000
HARVEST HOUSE$20,000
BURLESON OPPORTUNITY FUND$16,000
CAREITY FOUNDATION$16,000
CASA OF JOHNSON COUNTY$15,000
ATHENA SOCIETY OF BURLESON$11,000
CENTER FOR ASD$10,000
WINGS OF HOPE EQUITHERAPY$10,000
REINSPIRE$10,000
BURLESON EX-STUDENTS ASSN$5,000
LONGHORN COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMER$5,000
PATHWAY CHURCH$5,000
BURLESON SR CITIZENS CENTER$4,800
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY HOSPICE OF TEXAS: $3k → 11%REINSPIRE: $10k → 10%REINSPIRE: $10k → 10%REINSPIRE: $10k → 10%REINSPIRE: $10k → 10%REINSPIRE: $8k → 10%REINSPIRE: $5k → 10%EAST CLEBURNE COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 10%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 23 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
9

Total granted

$1.3M
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+94%

Still filing today

35%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalReligionOther
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

  • CM
    CRAZY8 MINISTRIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +63%
  • CO
    CASA of Johnson County Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +11%
  • WO
    Wings of Hope Equitherapy
    8× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS JOHNSON CTY
    one grant, 2022 · $18k
  • 1B
    1ST BAPTIST CHURCH BURLESON
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
  • JC
    JOHNSON COUNTY ADULT EDUC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
Texas Community Counseling

When care is within reach, lives change. Texas Community Counseling is a faith-based nonprofit committed to bringing hope and healing through mental health care to the communities that need it the most. We empower individuals to heal,…

Human Services
2
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Milam County
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3
The Blue Bird Circle

The Blue Bird Circle (the Circle) is dedicated to the promotion of the well-being of humanity through the betterment of the community. Its charitable and benevolent activities are pledged to the support of The Blue Bird Circle Clinic for…

Health
4
Novelty Behavioral Health

Our mission is to provide Accessible and Affordable Holistic-Based mental-health care to the communities we serve without without regard to their background or insurance status in a caring environment.

Health
5
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
6
Dallas Center Inc

To provide individualized services that positively impact the lives of 0-3 year old children with developmental disabilities/delays and their families.

Human Services
7
Christus Trinity Clinic Texas

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, educational and religious purposes of advancing, promoting and supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations which operate…

Health
8
Hendrick Home for Children
—
9
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.

Human Services
10
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
11
Lone Star Circle of Care

Lone star circle of care provides exceptional and accessible patient centered healthcare for our texas neighbors, focusing on the underserved.

Health
12
Children's Specialized Hospital

To be the preeminent provider of specialized healthcare services for infants, children and young adults. the organization provides medically necessary pediatric healthcare services to all children in a non-discriminatory manner regardless…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is CRAZY8 Ministries Inc; the most unlike its peers is Casa of Johnson County 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

11 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. 11 of the 33 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARVEST HOUSE: $134,200 · OtherHARVEST HOUSEMEALS ON WHEELS JOHNSON COUNTY: $131,500 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS JOHNSON COUNTYBURLESON OPPORTUNITY FUND: $92,000 · OtherBURLESON OPPORTUNITY FUNDPROMISES FOOD PANTRY - 1ST BAPTIST: $44,700 · OtherPROMISES FOOD PANTRY - 1ST BAPTISTBURLESON EX-STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: $43,000 · OtherBURLESON EX-STUDENTS ASSOCIATIONLONGHORN COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMER: $38,000 · OtherPROMISES FOOD PANTRY 1ST BAPT CH: $35,000 · OtherOPEN DOOR FOOD BANK: $31,000 · OtherJOHNSON COUNTY ADULT EDUCATION: $30,000 · OtherBURLESON SR CITIZENS CENTER: $26,400 · Other+12 more: $113,737 · Other+12 moreCAREITY FOUNDATION: $90,000 · HealthCAREITY FOUNDATIONATHENA SOCIETY OF BURLESON: $82,000 · HealthATHENA SOCIETY OF …Parents Defeating Autism Today: $59,085 · HealthParents Defeating …+1 more: $50 · HealthCRAZY8 MINISTRIES INC: $169,600 · Housing & ShelterCRAZY8 MINIST…Wings of Hope Equitherapy: $74,000 · Human ServicesWings of H…Reinspire: $52,500 · Human ServicesReinspire+2 more: $6,000 · Human ServicesCASA of Johnson County Inc: $120,000 · Crime & LegalCASA of J…MANSFIELD MISSON CENTER INC: $30,000 · Religion
Other$719,537Health$231,135Housing & Shelter$169,600Human Services$132,500Crime & Legal$120,000Religion$30,000

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 budgetCRAZY8 MINISTRIES INC: $169,600 over 9y, 9.4% of budgetCASA of Johnson County Inc: $120,000 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetCAREITY FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetATHENA SOCIETY OF BURLESON: $82,000 over 9y, 26% of budgetWings of Hope Equitherapy: $74,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetParents Defeating Autism Today: $59,085 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetReinspire: $52,500 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetMANSFIELD MISSON CENTER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCommunity Healthcare of Texas: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEast Cleburne Community Center: $3,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $50 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 CRAZY8 MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA of Johnson County Inc ↗
  • Who funds CAREITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ATHENA SOCIETY OF BURLESON ↗
  • Who funds Wings of Hope Equitherapy ↗
  • Who funds Parents Defeating Autism Today ↗
  • Who funds Reinspire ↗
  • Who funds MANSFIELD MISSON CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Healthcare of Texas ↗
  • Who funds East Cleburne Community Center ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗

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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX16.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Baker Foundation of Burleson Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 33 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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