How much did BAKER ROOT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of BAKER ROOT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

civil rightsenvironmentsocialchild welfaremuseumseducation

2021

civil rightsenvironmentsocialchild welfaremuseumseducation

2022

civil rightsenvironmentchild welfaresocialmuseumseducation

2023

committeechildren

2024

childrencommittee

2025

defensecommitteechildren

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500

Median grant

States reached

$714k

Total assets

Largest grants

MAB Community Services$5,500
Museum of Fine Arts Boston$4,500
Chamber Orchestra of Boston$2,500
Pine Street Inn$1,500
Tricon Church$1,200
New England Center and Home for Veterans$1,000
First Literacy$1,000
NESEA$1,000
Planned Parenthood Federation of America$1,000
Horizons For Homeless Children$800
Project Hope$800
Project Bread$750
The Umbrella Community Arts Center$700
Friends of CCHS Swimming and Diving$530
More Than Words$515

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$187k · 59 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

59 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$187k

$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+77%

Still filing today

61%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthArts & CultureOther

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

MC
MAB Community Services
6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +83%
FL
First Literacy
6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +0%
WL
Westport Land Conservation Trust
5× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +3%

Funded once

NE
New England Center and Home for Ve
one grant, 2021 · $1k
ED
Educational Development Groupgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +77%
CF
Center For Policing Equity
one grant, 2020 · $300

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

04Your field

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.

Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights

National Constitution Center

The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to teaching about the Constitution.

Arts & Culture

Cultural Survival Inc

Advocate for indigenous people's rights

Civil Rights

Boston Architectural College

Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…

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Center for International Environmental

Uses the power of law to protect the environment, human rights & ensure a just & sustainable society.

International

True Costs Initiative Inc

True costs initiative (tci) seeks to increase corporate accountability and to strengthen legal systems in the global south by driving collaboration among communities, funders, and creative leaders in an effort to tip the balance so…

International

Commonwealth Land Trust Inc

Low income housing.

Housing & Shelter

The Commons Inc

Partnering with individuals and organizations to access, organize, and share data that inspires action that restores our environment.

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Counselors of Real Estate

The counselors of real estate (cre) was established exclusively for real estate (see schedule o) advisors who provide intelligent and trusted advice for a client or employer. cre serves as an information resource for its members.

Community Improvement

Witness Inc

Witness helps people use video and technology to protect and defend human rights. the organization operates globally. witness' global team designs solutions, provides guidance, and co-develops strategies that enable human rights defenders…

International

Center for Constitutional Rights

The center for constitutional rights stands with social justice movements and communities under threat-fusing litigation, advocacy and narrative shifting to dismantle systems of oppression regardless of the risk.

Civil Rights

The Common Application Inc

The common application promotes access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trinity Boston Connects Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dignity in Asylum 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/47

the rest of the field

10%

4,108/42,311

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.

05the grantee network

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

45/46

Grantees still filing

35/46

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$108,845Health$19,200Arts & Culture$18,750Human Services$15,300Education$14,950Environment$8,950Civil Rights$7,150

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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncMA30.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Fidelity Foundation · Zachary and Lindsey Gund Foundation · Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation · The Hamilton Company Charitable · The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable · Highland Street Connection · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 organisation BAKER ROOT FAMILY 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Chamber Orchestra of Boston.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 300145886 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Chamber Orchestra of Boston, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Baker Root Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Baker Root Family Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BAKER ROOT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Baker Root Family Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

BAKER ROOT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Baker Root Family Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph