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BakerRipley's mission is to bring resources, education, and connection to emerging neighborhoods.

$504M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$2.5MInternational$822kFood & Nutrition$766kHousing & Shelter$197kHealth$184kYouth Development$77kPublic Safety & Disaster$70kEducation$59kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $1,930,276, the rows itemized in this filing. The $503,684,476 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $501,754,200 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $147k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.7M
$34,100
Median grant
1
States reached
$187M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Indochinese Culture Center: $12k → 16%Indochinese Culture Center: $11k → 16%Indochinese Culture Center: $11k → 16%Indochinese Cultural: $11k → 16%Indochinese Culture Center: $8k → 16%Wesley Community Center Inc: $63k → 16%Wesley Community Center Inc: $53k → 16%Wesley Community Center: $36k → 16%Wesley Community Center: $34k → 16%Wesley Community Center: $33k → 16%Wesley Community Center Inc: $32k → 16%Wesley Community Center: $31k → 16%Wesley Community Center Inc: $30k → 16%Wesley Community Center Inc: $29k → 16%Chinese Community Center Inc: $101k → 16%Chinese Community Center Inc: $34k → 16%Chinese Community Center Inc: $34k → 16%Chinese Community Center Inc: $32k → 16%Chinese Community Center Inc: $21k → 16%Chinese Community Center Inc: $17k → 16%Chinese Community Center Inc: $12k → 16%Community Family Centers Inc: $5k → 16%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 14 repeat orgs$679k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
7

Total granted

$4.0M
$647k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+32%

Still filing today

64%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyInternationalEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • United Way of Greater Houston
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +28%
  • CW
    CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $822k · revenue +28%
  • WC
    WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $342k · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • CF
    Communities for Good Fund Incgraduated
    2× · 2017–2019 · $507k · revenue +46%
  • NC
    NCI Community Fund Inc
    2× · 2017–2019 · $59k · revenue -88% · 27% of their budget
  • TF
    Texas Folklife Resources
    one grant, 2017 · $23k · revenue -32%
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
Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County

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.

Human Services
2
Houston Area Community Services

Our mission is to provide high quality and caring services to promote healthy people and communities.

Health
3
Central Houston Civic Improvement Inc

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.

Community Improvement
4
Central Houston Inc

See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.

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5
Chinese Seniors Association of Houston Inc
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6
Harris County Medical Society

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…

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7
Houston Community Health Centers Inc

To make quality healthcare accessible and sustainable to the medically underserved in houston.

Health
8
LifeHouse of Houston Inc

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.

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9
Houston Area Women's Center

The Houston Area Women's Center (HAWC) works to end domestic and sexual violence and supports all in building safe and healthy lives through advocacy, counseling, education, shelter, and support services.

Human Services
10
Vecino Centers for Health Services

To assist houston community health centers inc. to make quality healthcare accessible and sustainable to the medically underserved populations in houston.

Health
11
Central Texas Community Health Centers

Communitycare operates 25 health center locations offering comprehensive primary care services for the entire family including pediatrics, behavioral health services, and dental care.

Health
12
Community Action Inc of Central Texas

Established in 1965, community action, inc. of central texas has continuously worked to assist low to moderate income families in central texas by providing a variety of social services and economic opportunities. the agency has four areas…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian American Health Coalition of the Greater Houston Area; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

United Way of Greater Houston: $1,715,354 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater HoustonCommunities for Good Fund Inc: $507,383 · Human ServicesCommunities for Good Fund I…WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS: $341,772 · Human ServicesWESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC…CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $250,247 · Human ServicesCHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER IN…INDOCHINESE CULTURE CENTER: $52,609 · Human Services+1 more: $5,076 · Human ServicesCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $821,830 · InternationalCHURCH WORLD SERVIC…NEW LIFE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $136,692 · OtherNEW LIFE ENR…Goldberg BNai BRith Towers: $116,225 · OtherGoldberg BNa…DENVER HARBOR SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $90,854 · OtherDENVER HARBO…SOUTH PARK BAPTIST CHURCH: $31,703 · OtherSOUTH PARK B…Golden Age Hobby House of Houston Inc: $28,576 · OtherGolden Age H…Four Dragons Institute: $27,246 · OtherCHANCELLORS FAMILY CENTER: $44,040 · OtherCHANCELLORS …Texas Folklife Resources: $22,500 · OtherONEGOAL: $22,500 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherThe Montrose Center: $136,025 · HealthASIAN AMERICAN HEALTH COALITION OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA: $70,499 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,454 · HealthB'NAI B'RITH SENIOR CITIZENS HOUSING COMMITTEE OF HOUSTON INC: $197,474 · Housing & ShelterNCI Community Fund Inc: $59,336 · Education
Philanthropy$1,715,354Human Services$1,157,087International$821,830Other$530,336Health$226,978Housing & Shelter$197,474Education$59,336

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 budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $1,715,354 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $821,830 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCommunities for Good Fund Inc: $507,383 over 2y, 20% of budgetWESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS: $341,772 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetCHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $250,247 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH SENIOR CITIZENS HOUSING COMMITTEE OF HOUSTON INC: $197,474 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetThe Montrose Center: $136,025 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetDENVER HARBOR SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $90,854 over 3y, 78% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN HEALTH COALITION OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA: $70,499 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNCI Community Fund Inc: $59,336 over 2y, 27% of budgetINDOCHINESE CULTURE CENTER: $52,609 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetCHANCELLORS FAMILY CENTER: $44,040 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGolden Age Hobby House of Houston Inc: $28,576 over 2y, 49% of budgetTexas Folklife Resources: $22,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetONEGOAL: $22,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,454 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFTFUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS INC: $5,076 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Greater Houston Commu…The Methodist HospitalUnited Way of Greater…Houston Endowment IncShell USA Company Fou…Houston in ActionHouston in Action Net…Isla Carroll Turner F…Centerpoint Energy Fo…Texas Mutual Insuranc…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX17.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s 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
    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.

    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 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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