· Private foundation
Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $328k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA | $25,000 |
| LITERACY CENTER | $20,000 |
| ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN | $20,000 |
| KELLYN FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LEHIGH VALLEY ARTS & CULTURAL ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
| BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM | $20,000 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY - ZOELLNER ARTS CENTER | $17,500 |
| VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY BIKE WORKS | $15,000 |
| DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| MUHLENBERG COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $614k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- LULEHIGH UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +53%
- KFKELLYN FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $207k · revenue +90%
- NHNEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC6× · 2018–2023 · $195k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $225k
- CMCommunity Music Schoolone grant, 2018 · $40k
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INCone grant, 2020 · $38k · revenue +17%
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.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The mission of the lehigh valley academy regional charter school, a fully authorized, dynamic k-12 ib world school, is to educate all students through best learning practices and innovative teaching strategies to be responsible…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Pennsylvania college of art & design is a professional art college offering a bfa degree, certificates, credentials, and curricula that enable students of all ages to pursue art as their life's work.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…
The mission of lycoming college is to provide a distinguished baccalaureate education in the liberal arts and sciences within a coeducational, supportive, and residential setting.
See schedule o for complete mission statement.la salle is a lasallian catholic university committed to the principle that all knowledge is practical and empowering, filled with the capacity to transform lives. anchored in the living…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artsquest and the most unlike its peers is Nhntx Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 83 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 LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MUHLENBERG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KORESH DANCE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds KELLYN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BIG THOUGHT ↗
- Who funds Rodale Institute ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY ARTS AND CULTURAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BIKE WORKS ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NHNTX INC ↗
- Who funds ALONZO KING LINES BALLET ↗
- Who funds Main Line Art Center ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PINEBROOK FAMILY ANSWERS ↗
- Who funds THE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BAUM SCHOOL OF ART ↗
- Who funds VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds PRATYUSH SINHA FOUNDATION D/B/A MINDFUL CHILD INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds OUT TEACH ↗
- Who funds CCSA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOUCHSTONE THEATRE ↗
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: Air Products Foundation · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Ppl Foundation · The Century Fund Trust · Harry C Trexler Estate · Amaranth Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · The Rider-Pool Foundation · Lutron Foundation · Butz Foundation
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 Dexter F and Dorothy H 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.
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