· Private foundation
Clark and Ruby Baker Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| MUST MINISTRIES INC | $25,000 |
| MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC | $25,000 |
| WESLEYAN COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CENTRAL GEORGIA | $15,000 |
| CROSSROADS MINISTRIES USA INC | $15,000 |
| FOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS | $10,000 |
| LAGRANGE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| EAST LAKE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KIDZ TO LEADERS INC | $10,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH GEORGIA | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LANIER | $7,000 |
| YOUTH VILLAGES | $7,000 |
| ATLANTA-FULTON COUNTY ZOO INC | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL GEORGIA | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- MMMust Ministries Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $186k · revenue +122%
- WCWESLEYAN COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $162k · revenue +12%
- MCMURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $80k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- MHMETHODIST HOME OF THE SOUTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE INCone grant, 2018 · $17k · revenue +14%
- MOMeals on Wheels Atlanta Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +38%
- MMOWAone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
To perpetuate a village community to provide progressive life assistance to adults with developmental disabilities so that they can maximize their abilities and maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment.
Boys & girls clubs of metro atlanta's (bgcma) mission is to ignite the unlimited potential of kids and teens by creating safe, inclusive, and engaging environments. our vision is thousands of young leaders thriving in life and…
Hope atlanta seeks to help georgians avoid homelessness and hunger through a comprehensive approach that equips them with the tools for lifelong stability.our vision is to end hunger and homelessness for every georgian.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
To partner with patients and communities to support wellness through compassionate, quality healthcare.
Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization which strengthens and supports court-sanctioned, affiliate CASA programs that empower community volunteers who advocate for abused or neglected…
Easter Seals East Georgia's mission is to provide exceptional services to ensure that people with disabilities and barriers to employment maximize their potential for employment and independence and broaden their opportunities for full…
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
The organization offers social services as a compassionate outreach to abused, neglected and dependent children and families in need. the organization strives to positively impact the lives of children, families and all those who receive…
The statewide association of not-for-profit and other mission-driven organizations dedicated to providing quality housing, health care, community based and other related services for older Georgians. The mission of the association is to…
Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Murphy-Harpst Children's Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is First Foundation Kids Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 21% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 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. 32 of the 44 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 Must Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LaGrange College ↗
- Who funds MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE GEORGIA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds METHODIST HOME OF THE SOUTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Ministries USA Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA FULTON COUNTY ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF LANIER INC ↗
- Who funds MACON VOLUNTEER CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF COBB COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds KIDZ2LEADERS INC ↗
- Who funds DDD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST FOUNDATION KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Wesley Glen Ministries 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: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Frances Wood Wilson Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Tr Lois & Lucy Lampkin Fdn Ua · Tuw Thomas H Pitts · J Bulow Campbell Foundation · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia
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 Clark and Ruby Baker Foundation 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.