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BakerRipley
BakerRipley's mission is to bring resources, education, and connection to emerging neighborhoods.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $1,930,276 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $503,684,476 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $501,754,200 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $147k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Way of Greater Houston | $1,209,457 |
| Church World Service Inc | $522,064 |
| Goldberg B'Nai B'Rith Towers | $52,006 |
| Chinese Community Center Inc | $34,100 |
| Wesley Community Center Inc | $31,917 |
| South Park Baptist Church | $31,703 |
| Montrose Counseling Center | $26,496 |
| New Life Enrichment Center | $22,533 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $650k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
United Way of Greater Houston2× · 2023–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +28%- CWCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $822k · revenue +28%
- WCWESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS8× · 2017–2024 · $342k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- CFCommunities for Good Fund Incgraduated2× · 2017–2019 · $507k · revenue +46%
- NCNCI Community Fund Inc2× · 2017–2019 · $59k · revenue -88% · 27% of their budget
- TFTexas Folklife Resourcesone grant, 2017 · $23k · revenue -32%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Our mission is to provide high quality and caring services to promote healthy people and communities.
Central houston civic improvement lnc.'s mission is to ensure the continued vitality and to support development of downtown and the central city that is critical to the continued health and growth of houston.
The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.
See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.
Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…
To assist houston community health centers inc. to make quality healthcare accessible and sustainable to the medically underserved populations in houston.
As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.
The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center holds a freestanding 37 bed inpatient facility in the Texas Medical Center that is operated and managed by Houston Hospice.
To provide emergency assistance to people in Montgomery County, TX who are in an unexpected crisis.
The mission of Christian Community Service Center, Inc. (CCSC) is to serve the poor, hungry, disabled and otherwise needy while respecting their religious, ethnic, or cultural differences.
To make quality healthcare accessible and sustainable to the medically underserved in houston.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wesley Community Center Inc of Houston Texas and the most unlike its peers is Golden Age Hobby House of Houston Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Communities for Good Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH SENIOR CITIZENS HOUSING COMMITTEE OF HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds The Montrose Center ↗
- Who funds DENVER HARBOR SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN HEALTH COALITION OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA ↗
- Who funds NCI Community Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds INDOCHINESE CULTURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHANCELLORS FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Golden Age Hobby House of Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds Texas Folklife Resources ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFTFUND INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · United Way of Greater Houston · Houston Endowment Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Houston in Action · Houston in Action Network · Isla Carroll Turner Friendship Trust · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Texas Mutual Insurance Company · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 organization BakerRipley 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 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.