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Ben F and Karen K Baker Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$79kArts & Culture$67kHuman Services$39kInternational$21kHousing & Shelter$12kPhilanthropy$11kHealth$9kFood & Nutrition$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$966k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OK Mozart$25,000
St John's School$10,000
Wounded Warriors$5,000
St John's School$5,000
Tunnels 2 Towers$5,000
Agape$2,000
Journey Home$2,000
Lighthouse Outreach$2,000
Concern Center$2,000
Martha's Task$2,000
Habitat for Humanity$2,000
Samaritan's Purse$2,000
St Jude's$1,000
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 (FY20–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Martha's Task: $2k → 14%Martha's Task: $1k → 14%Martha's Task: $1k → 14%Martha's Task: $1k → 14%Martha's Task: $1k → 14%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$255k · 23 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
5

Total granted

$255k
$4k

Still filing today

39%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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

  • OK MOZART INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +71%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $6k · revenue +53%
  • MT
    MARTHA'S TASK
    5× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • BC
    Bartlesville Community Center
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • WC
    Washington County Sheriff's Reserve
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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
Saint Francis Hospital Inc

To extend the presence and healing ministry of christ in all we do.

Health
2
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
3
Lighthouse Medical Ministries Incorporated

Lighthouse medical ministries, inc. is a nonprofit organization for the purpose of providing free health care to individuals in financial need. the basic areas of services are medical care, visual care, dental care, parental instruction,…

Health
4
Ssm Health Care of Oklahoma Inc

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.

Health
5
Freeman Health System

The mission of freeman health services is to improve the health of the communities we serve through contemporary, innovative, quality healthcare solutions.

Health
6
Lucy Webb Hayes National Training School for Deaconesses & Missionaries

Sibley memorial hospital in washington, d.c., a member of johns hopkins medicine, has a distinguished history of serving the community since its founding in 1890. as a not-for-profit, full-service community hospital, sibley offers…

Health
7
Message to All Nations Man

To reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost

Human Services
8
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
9
Christ's Hospital
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10
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
11
The W B Carrell Memorial Clinic Shoulder and Elbow Foundation
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12
St Lukes Episcopal-Presbyterian Hospitals

We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heartmatters Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Frank Phillips Foundation 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

12 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. 12 of the 31 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

St John's School: $78,541 · OtherSt John's SchoolTunnels 2 Towers: $13,000 · OtherTunnels 2 TowersWounded Warriors: $12,500 · OtherWounded WarriorsThe Frank Phillips Foundation Inc: $10,000 · OtherThe Frank Phillips Foundation IncAgape: $7,500 · Other+19 more: $49,500 · Other+19 moreOK MOZART INC: $59,500 · Arts & CultureOK MOZART INCINTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · InternationalSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $6,000 · ReligionMARTHA'S TASK: $6,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY HEALTHCARE CLINIC INC: $2,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 · HealthLIGHTHOUSE OUTREACH CENTER OF BARTLESVILLE INC: $2,000 · Community Improvement
Other$171,041Arts & Culture$59,500International$15,000Religion$6,000Human Services$6,000Health$3,000Community Improvement$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOK MOZART INC: $59,500 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetThe Frank Phillips Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S TASK: $6,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE JOURNEY HOME INC: $5,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPRICE TOWER ARTS CENTER INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY HEALTHCARE CLINIC INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OUTREACH CENTER OF BARTLESVILLE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEARTMATTERS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARTLESVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds OK MOZART INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Frank Phillips Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA'S TASK ↗
  • Who funds THE JOURNEY HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds PRICE TOWER ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY HEALTHCARE CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OUTREACH CENTER OF BARTLESVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTMATTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds BARTLESVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Lyon FoundationJeanalee and Charles …Bartlesville Communit…Arvest FoundationK S Adams Foundation …Cresap Family Foundat…Tulsa Community Found…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Lyon FoundationOK24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lyon Foundation · Jeanalee and Charles Parsons Foundation · Bartlesville Community Foundation · Arvest Foundation · K S Adams Foundation Co-Trust · Cresap Family Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Ben F and Karen K Baker Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ben F and Karen K Baker Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    8get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 31 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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