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Clark and Ruby Baker Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Clark and Ruby Baker Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$199k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$387kHuman Services$351kHealth$270kReligion$241kFood & Nutrition$93kHousing & Shelter$75kYouth Development$56kAnimals$39kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $175k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
KIDZ TO LEADERS INC$10,000
FOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS$10,000
EAST LAKE FOUNDATION$10,000
MAKE-A-WISH GEORGIA$10,000
LAGRANGE COLLEGE$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
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 (FY17–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YOUTH VILLAGES: $7k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF COBB COUNTY INC: $7k → 8%YOUTH VILLAGES: $5k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF COBB COUNTY INC: $3k → 8%YOUTH VILLAGES: $5k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF COBB COUNTY INC: $3k → 8%YOUTH VILLAGES: $5k → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA INC: $15k → 13%METHODIST HOME OF THE SOUTH: $17k → 23%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ATLANTA INC: $10k → 13%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ATLANTA INC: $10k → 13%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ATLANTA INC: $5k → 13%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 28 repeat orgs$130k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +36% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
12

Total granted

$1.5M
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+36%

Still filing today

68%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MM
    Must Ministries Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $186k · revenue +122%
  • WC
    WESLEYAN COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $162k · revenue +12%
  • MC
    MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $80k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • MH
    METHODIST HOME OF THE SOUTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $17k · revenue +14%
  • MO
    Meals on Wheels Atlanta Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +38%
  • M
    MOWA
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
Annandale At Suwanee Inc

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.

Health
2
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc

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…

Youth Development
3
Hope Atlanta Inc

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.

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4
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
5
Medlink Georgia Inc

To partner with patients and communities to support wellness through compassionate, quality healthcare.

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6
Morehouse School of Medicine

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…

Education
7
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

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…

Civil Rights
8
Easter Seals East Georgia Inc

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…

Human Services
9
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

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.…

Community Improvement
10
Georgia Agape Inc

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…

—
11
LeadingAge Georgia Inc

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…

Education
12
Enable of Georgia Inc

Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Murphy-Harpst Children's Centers Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 44 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/32
Grantees still filing
20/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN CNTR: $125,500 · OtherMURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN CNTRRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $82,900 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESMURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC: $80,000 · OtherMURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INCUNITED METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $79,500 · OtherUNITED METHODIST CHILDRENS HOMEOUR HOUSE INC: $62,000 · OtherOUR HOUSE INCMETHODIST HOME OF THE S GA CONFERENCE: $40,000 · OtherMETHODIST HOME OF THE S GA CONFERENCERONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CENTRAL GEORGIA: $40,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CENTRAL GEORGIAACTION MINISTRIES INC: $36,000 · OtherMETHODIST HOME OF THE SOUTH GA CONF: $30,000 · OtherMIDDLE GEORGIA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $25,000 · Other+15 more: $140,000 · Other+15 moreWESLEYAN COLLEGE: $162,000 · EducationWESLEYAN COLLEGEYOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE: $100,000 · EducationYOUNG HARRIS COLLEGELaGrange College: $90,000 · EducationLaGrange CollegeMust Ministries Inc: $185,500 · Human ServicesMust Ministries IncCommunities in Schools of Atlanta Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesCommunities in Scho…YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $22,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAGES INCMETHODIST HOME OF THE SOUTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE INC: $17,000 · Human ServicesMETHODIST HOME OF T…Meals on Wheels Atlanta Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesMeals on Wheels Atl…FAMILY PROMISE OF COBB COUNTY: $12,500 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC: $77,500 · HealthATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC: $20,000 · HealthMACON VOLUNTEER CLINIC INC: $14,000 · HealthDDD FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $42,500 · Food & NutritionGirl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF LANIER INC: $14,000 · Youth DevelopmentFIRST FOUNDATION KIDS INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCrossroads Ministries USA Inc: $15,000 · ReligionKIDZ2LEADERS INC: $10,000 · Religion
Other$740,900Education$352,000Human Services$277,000Health$121,500Food & Nutrition$42,500Youth Development$39,000Religion$25,000

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 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
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 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 Crossroads Ministries USA Inc ↗
  • Who funds Meals on Wheels Atlanta Inc ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA FULTON COUNTY ZOO INC ↗
  • Who funds MACON VOLUNTEER CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF LANIER INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF COBB COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds EAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds DDD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDZ2LEADERS INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST FOUNDATION KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC ↗

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 Foundat…Tr Uw Charles I BrananThe Community Foundat…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainThe Imlay Foundation …Frances Wood Wilson F…Publix Super Markets …Tr Lois & Lucy Lampki…Tuw Thomas H PittsJ Bulow Campbell Foun…Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Ma…Community Foundation …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Clark and Ruby Baker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clark and Ruby Baker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    11report 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 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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