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Baker Gertrude-Tr-Combined Baker

The Combined Baker Trust conducts its operations by making grants to qualified individuals and 501(c)(3) organizations that are part of the community served by the Presbytery of Philadelphia, First Presbyterian Church in Germantown, and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Religious Society of Friends

$114k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Itemized grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$106k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$16,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$22,325
Organizations funded a year
6 to 8
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Baker Gertrude-Tr-Combined Baker funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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 arriving8$106k0%
FY20248$111k25%
FY20236$111k0%
FY20228$122k13%
FY20217$108kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$276kHuman Services$207kHousing & Shelter$48kPhilanthropy$19kCommunity Improvement$8k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Germantown Avenue Crisis Ministry$120,825510%
William Penn Charter School Inc$99,00050%
Germantown Friends School$99,0005n/a
Center in the Park$86,07551%
Community College of Philadelphia Foundation$50,00050%
Urban Resources Development Corporation$47,525510%
East Saint Louis School District 189$19,0002n/a
Parkway Northwest High School$14,0002n/a
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends$14,0002n/a
Chanje Movement (Dba of the Global$7,5001n/a

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.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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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.

About Baker Gertrude-Tr-Combined Baker

How much does Baker Gertrude-Tr-Combined Baker give?
Baker Gertrude-Tr-Combined Baker reported 8 itemized grants totaling $105,925, out of $114,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 8 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Baker Gertrude-Tr-Combined Baker fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), Human Services (37%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
Who are Baker Gertrude-Tr-Combined Baker's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Germantown Avenue Crisis Ministry ($121k), William Penn Charter School Inc ($99k), Germantown Friends School ($99k).
Does Baker Gertrude-Tr-Combined Baker fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Baker Gertrude-Tr-Combined Baker?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation, W W Smith Charitable Trust.
Where is Baker Gertrude-Tr-Combined Baker based?
Baker Gertrude-Tr-Combined Baker is based in PA.

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 10 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 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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