How much does Baker Root Family Foundation Inc give?

Baker Root Family Foundation Inc reported 49 grants totaling $36,595 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 46 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Baker Root Family Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (30%), Civil Rights (13%), Health (10%).

Who are Baker Root Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Mab Community Services Inc ($18k), The Chamber Orchestra of Boston Inc ($15k), Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans ($6k).

Does Baker Root Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Baker Root Family Foundation Inc 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.

Which funders back the same organizations as Baker Root Family Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, The Diomedes Foundation.

Where is Baker Root Family Foundation Inc based?

Baker Root Family Foundation Inc is based in MA.

Baker Root Family Foundation Inc

Baker Root Family Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Baker Root Family 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.

$37k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$6k

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, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$57kCivil Rights$24kHealth$19kEducation$18kHousing & Shelter$18kEnvironment$13kInternational$11kYouth Development$9kOther$0

02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500

Median grant

States reached

$652k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
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
NESEA	$1,000
First Literacy	$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$187k · 55 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

55 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 13 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

+25%

+77%

Still filing today

84%

67%

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

EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentCivil RightsHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther

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

MC
MAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +92%
VV
VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS
5× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +72%
FL
FIRST LITERACY INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +46%

Funded once

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

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.

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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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

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Ceres Inc

Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…

Environment

Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…

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Free Press

Free press was created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media. we believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse…

Arts & Culture

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center; the most unlike its peers is Educational Development Group 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

59 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. 59 of the 69 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

58/59

Grantees still filing

37/59

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$94,895Arts & Culture$23,550Health$19,200Education$17,450Human Services$15,300International$12,000Civil Rights$10,750

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

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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncMA30.7× affinity15 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 · The Diomedes Foundation · Zachary and Lindsey Gund Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Fidelity Foundation · The Boger Charitable Trust · Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation · Kane Wallace Foundation · Pobble Stone Foundation · The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-I

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

15get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

2rely on government for over half their income

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home