Oklahoma · Private foundation
Ben F and Karen K Baker Charitable Foundation
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.
- $65k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 18
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $966k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Ben F and Karen K Baker Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $65k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $84k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $41k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $27k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $22k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $22k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ok Mozart Inc | $59,500 | 6 | 4% |
| International Eye Foundation | $15,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Frank Phillips Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Martha's Task | $6,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Journey Home Inc | $5,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Price Tower Arts Center Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Family Healthcare Clinic Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lighthouse Outreach Center of Bartlesville Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Heartmatters Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ok Mozart Inc | $59,500 | 6 | 4% |
| International Eye Foundation | $15,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Frank Phillips Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Martha's Task | $6,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Journey Home Inc | $5,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Price Tower Arts Center Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Family Healthcare Clinic Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lighthouse Outreach Center of Bartlesville Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Heartmatters Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Claremore Alumni Association | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Bartlesville Womens Club Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($148k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ben F and Karen K Baker Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Ben F and Karen K Baker Charitable Foundation
- How much does Ben F and Karen K Baker Charitable Foundation give?
- Ben F and Karen K Baker Charitable Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $65,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Ben F and Karen K Baker Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Arts & Culture (25%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Ben F and Karen K Baker Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Ok Mozart Inc ($60k), International Eye Foundation ($15k), The Frank Phillips Foundation Inc ($10k).
- Does Ben F and Karen K Baker Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ben F and Karen K Baker Charitable Foundation 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 Ben F and Karen K Baker Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lyon Foundation, Jeanalee and Charles Parsons Foundation, Bartlesville Community Foundation.
- Where is Ben F and Karen K Baker Charitable Foundation based?
- Ben F and Karen K Baker Charitable Foundation is based in OK.
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