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Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$662k
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Education$2.7MArts & Culture$1.1MYouth Development$843kHealth$487kFood & Nutrition$268kCommunity Improvement$254kHuman Services$245kPhilanthropy$75kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $84k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $328k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY$250,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA$25,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN$20,000
LEHIGH VALLEY ARTS & CULTURAL ALLIANCE$20,000
LITERACY CENTER$20,000
ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM$20,000
BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM$20,000
KELLYN FOUNDATION$20,000
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY - ZOELLNER ARTS CENTER$17,500
DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY$15,000
COMMUNITY BIKE WORKS$15,000
COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL$15,000
MUHLENBERG COLLEGE$15,000
VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC$15,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $11k → 11%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $30k → 11%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $30k → 11%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $30k → 11%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $30k → 11%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $30k → 10%THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $8k → 11%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $15k → 10%THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $8k → 11%THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $8k → 11%THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $8k → 11%ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH: $10k → 10%ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH: $5k → 10%ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH: $5k → 10%ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH: $5k → 10%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 22%ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH: $5k → 10%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 22%ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH: $5k → 10%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 22%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 22%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 22%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $20k → 11%PINEBROOK FAMILY ANSWERS: $15k → 11%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $15k → 11%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE: $10k → 11%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE: $10k → 11%PINEBROOK FAMILY ANSWERS: $10k → 11%PINEBROOK FAMILY ANSWERS: $10k → 11%PINEBROOK FAMILY ANSWERS: $10k → 11%KELLYN FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%KELLYN FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%KELLYN FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%KELLYN FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%PINEBROOK FAMILY ANSWERS: $10k → 11%KELLYN FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%KELLYN FOUNDATION: $13k → 11%KELLYN FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%KELLYN FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%PINEBROOK FAMILY ANSWERS: $5k → 11%KELLYN FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $7k → 11%LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $7k → 11%LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5k → 11%LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5k → 11%LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC: $5k → 11%LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5k → 11%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.7M · 55 repeat orgs$433k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

55 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
16

Total granted

$5.7M
$406k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+21%

Still filing today

82%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • LU
    LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2018–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +53%
  • KF
    KELLYN FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $207k · revenue +90%
  • NH
    NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $195k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $225k
  • CM
    Community Music School
    one grant, 2018 · $40k
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $38k · revenue +17%
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
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
2
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
3
Delaware Valley University

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…

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4
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
5
The Peak School

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…

Education
6
Lehigh Valley Academy Regional Charter School

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…

Education
7
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
8
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design

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.

Education
9
Point Park University

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…

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10
The Public School of Germantown

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…

Education
11
Lycoming College

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.

Education
12
La Salle University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artsquest; 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.
05the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 77 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
41/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $1,447,800 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITYMUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $349,000 · EducationMUHLENBERG COLLEGETHE LITERACY CENTER: $165,000 · EducationTHE LITERACY CENTER+5 more: $221,000 · Education+5 moreIndividual grant recipient: $225,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $170,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS O…LEHIGH VALLEY ARTS AND CULTURAL ALLIANCE: $98,000 · OtherLEHIGH VALLEY ARTS AND C…Cradle of Liberty BSA: $75,000 · OtherCradle of Liberty BSAVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE: $75,000 · OtherVALLEY YOUTH HOUSEGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN TEXAS: $70,000 · OtherTHE BAUM SCHOOL OF ART: $60,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS GREATER LV: $53,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY: $52,630 · OtherNHNTX INC: $77,500 · OtherNHNTX INC+25 more: $406,500 · Other+25 moreKORESH DANCE COMPANY: $227,500 · Arts & CultureKORESH DANCE COMPAN…BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM: $155,000 · Arts & CultureBACH CHOIR OF BETHL…BIG THOUGHT: $130,000 · Arts & CultureBIG THOUGHTTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS BALLET THEATE…COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $80,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY MUSIC SCH…ALONZO KING LINES BALLET: $75,000 · Arts & CultureALONZO KING LINES B…Main Line Art Center: $70,000 · Arts & CultureMain Line Art Cente…THE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DA VINCI DISCOV…ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTOUCHSTONE THEATRE: $40,000 · Arts & CultureALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $42,000 · Arts & CultureKELLYN FOUNDATION: $206,865 · Human ServicesKELLYN FOUND…NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $195,000 · Human ServicesNEW HORIZONS…PINEBROOK FAMILY ANSWERS: $65,000 · Human ServicesPINEBROOK FA…VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesVALLEY YOUTH…THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $48,500 · Human ServicesTHIRD STREET…ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH: $40,000 · Human ServicesELDERNET OF …LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC: $39,042 · Human ServicesLEHIGH VALLE…Episcopal Community Services of The Diocese of Pennsylvania: $25,000 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN INC: $220,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND …BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR: $127,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GI…COMMUNITY BIKE WORKS: $95,250 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY…GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOU…+2 more: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentGOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK: $140,000 · HealthLEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL: $115,000 · HealthRodale Institute: $130,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $38,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$2,182,800Other$1,362,630Arts & Culture$1,059,500Human Services$674,407Youth Development$505,250Health$255,000Food & Nutrition$168,000

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 budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $1,447,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $349,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKORESH DANCE COMPANY: $227,500 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN INC: $220,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetKELLYN FOUNDATION: $206,865 over 7y, 12% of budgetNEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $195,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $170,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE LITERACY CENTER: $165,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetBACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM: $155,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK: $140,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBIG THOUGHT: $130,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetRodale Institute: $130,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR: $127,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL: $115,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY ARTS AND CULTURAL ALLIANCE: $98,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetCOMMUNITY BIKE WORKS: $95,250 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC: $90,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $80,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetNHNTX INC: $77,500 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetALONZO KING LINES BALLET: $75,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMain Line Art Center: $70,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $68,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPINEBROOK FAMILY ANSWERS: $65,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $60,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BAUM SCHOOL OF ART: $60,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetPRATYUSH SINHA FOUNDATION D/B/A MINDFUL CHILD INITIATIVE: $55,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM: $50,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $48,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetOUT TEACH: $48,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCCSA FOUNDATION: $42,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH: $40,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetTOUCHSTONE THEATRE: $40,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC: $39,042 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $38,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $29,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEpiscopal Community Services of The Diocese of Pennsylvania: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC: $24,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF INDUSTRIAL HISTORY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTSQUEST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMORAVIAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 5y, 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 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 PRATYUSH SINHA FOUNDATION D/B/A MINDFUL CHILD INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC ↗
  • 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 UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH ↗

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.

Air Products Foundati…Lehigh Valley Communi…United Way of the Gre…Ppl FoundationThe Century Fund TrustHarry C Trexler EstateAmaranth FoundationMartin Guitar Charita…John a and Margaret P…The Rider-Pool Founda…Lutron FoundationButz Foundation
Air Products FoundationPA61.4× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%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
    27report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 77 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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