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Clark and Ruby Baker Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$199k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
15%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 18
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$3.8M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Clark and Ruby Baker Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$199k27%
FY202413$182k15%
FY202314$187k29%
FY202215$205k13%
FY202118$173k44%
FY202016$170k44%
FY201912$170k0%
FY201816$160k13%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$387kHuman Services$351kHealth$270kReligion$241kFood & Nutrition$93kHousing & Shelter$75kYouth Development$56kAnimals$39kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($458k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Clark and Ruby Baker Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMust Ministries Inc: $185,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWesleyan College: $162,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Harris College: $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLaGrange College: $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMurphy-Harpst Children's Centers Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFoundation of Wesley Woods Inc: $77,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetOur House Inc: $62,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAtlanta Community Food Bank Inc: $42,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAction Ministries Inc: $36,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Atlanta Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMiddle Georgia Community Food Bank: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Villages Inc: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAtlanta Ronald McDonald House Charities Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMethodist Home of the South Georgia Conference Inc: $17,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCrossroads Ministries USA Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels Atlanta Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Georgia Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAtlanta Fulton County Zoo Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMacon Volunteer Clinic Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Lanier Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Promise of Cobb County: $12,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetRobert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDdd Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWesley Glen Ministries Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAssistance League of Atlanta Ga Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSpecial Olympics Georgia Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Georgia Power Foundation IncGA38.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Clark and Ruby Baker Foundation

How much does Clark and Ruby Baker Foundation give?
Clark and Ruby Baker Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $199,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Clark and Ruby Baker Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Human Services (22%), Health (17%).
Who are Clark and Ruby Baker Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Must Ministries Inc ($186k), Wesleyan College ($162k), Young Harris College ($100k).
Does Clark and Ruby Baker Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Clark and Ruby Baker Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Clark and Ruby Baker Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Georgia Power Foundation Inc, Tr Uw Charles I Branan, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc.
Where is Clark and Ruby Baker Foundation based?
Clark and Ruby Baker Foundation is based in TX.

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 44 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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