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Jessie H Baker Educational Fund at a glance

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Jessie H Baker Educational Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$1.1MReligion$4k
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
$3,050
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUNY BROOME COMMUNITY COLLEGE$30,023
BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY$23,114
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO$6,100
SUNY CORTLAND$6,100
FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY$3,050
ECCLESIA COLLEGE$3,050
MARIST COLLEGE$3,050
BARNARD COLLEGE$3,050
RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE$3,050
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT MARTIN$3,050
LOCK HAVEN UNIVERSITY$3,050
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN$3,050
ROBERTS WESLEYAN COLLEGE$3,050
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$3,050
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$3,050
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OSWEGO STATE: $1k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
WV
VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 58 repeat orgs$106k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

58 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
45

Total granted

$1.0M
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+14%

Still filing today

52%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $39k · revenue +40%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $33k · revenue +29%
  • LM
    Le Moyne College
    6× · 2018–2025 · $29k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
  • PS
    PENN STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • SN
    SUNY NEW PALTZ
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
5
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
6
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
7
Albright College

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

Education
8
Molloy University

Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…

Education
9
Wilson College

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

Education
10
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
11
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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12
Xavier University

Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University; the most unlike its peers is College of St Joseph the Worker 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

49 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. 49 of the 107 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
34/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROOME COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $191,771 · OtherBROOME COMMUNITY COLLEGEBINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY: $128,947 · OtherBINGHAMTON UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO: $85,728 · OtherUNIVERSITY AT BUFFALOSUNY CORTLAND: $57,059 · OtherSUNY CORTLANDSUNY ONEONTA: $33,432 · OtherSUNY FREDONIA: $33,242 · Other+55 more: $277,727 · Other+55 moreSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $39,029 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITYST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY: $33,174 · EducationST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITYLe Moyne College: $29,083 · EducationLe Moyne CollegeITHACA COLLEGE: $20,430 · EducationITHACA COLLEGEFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $18,170 · EducationMarywood University: $15,401 · EducationRochester Institute of Technology: $12,443 · EducationCornell University: $12,268 · Education+38 more: $162,738 · Education+38 more
Other$807,906Education$342,736

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $39,029 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY: $33,174 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLe Moyne College: $29,083 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetITHACA COLLEGE: $20,430 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $18,170 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY: $17,493 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMarywood University: $15,401 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $12,443 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $12,268 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $11,739 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAZENOVIA COLLEGE: $11,221 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $11,083 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $10,133 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO: $9,997 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCLARKS SUMMIT UNIVERSITY: $9,901 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetELMIRA COLLEGE: $9,260 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNAZARETH UNIVERSITY: $7,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHartwick College: $6,133 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $6,124 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $5,623 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARIST UNIVERSITY: $5,623 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $5,623 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $4,868 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $4,710 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Scranton: $4,710 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUTICA UNIVERSITY: $4,141 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES: $3,999 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEUKA COLLEGE: $3,874 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWELLS COLLEGE: $3,274 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New Haven: $3,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE INC: $2,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURSULINE COLLEGE: $2,610 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDAILLE UNIVERSITY: $2,610 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY: $2,610 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $2,573 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc: $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGANNON UNIVERSITY: $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSavannah College of Art and DesignInc: $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORNING COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $1,967 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $1,487 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUGHTON UNIVERSITY: $888 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEastern Nazarene College: $825 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE: $773 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $491 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $474 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAEMEN UNIVERSITY: $393 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 SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Le Moyne College ↗
  • Who funds ITHACA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ↗
  • Who funds ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Marywood University ↗
  • Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CAZENOVIA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO ↗
  • Who funds CLARKS SUMMIT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ELMIRA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds NAZARETH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Hartwick College ↗
  • Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MARIST UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Central New York Comm…Gazin Norbert L Educa…JM McDonald Foundatio…Gunglach Scho TrKing Scholarship FundVerizon FoundationE Brink Trust Uw Scho…Wilkes-Desmond Educat…Fred L Emerson Founda…Tulsa Community Found…Conrad H & Anna B Gil…Louis Henry Gross Spo…
Central New York Community Foundation IncNY27.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Gazin Norbert L Education Pfdn 101-0628960 · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Gunglach Scho Tr · King Scholarship Fund · Verizon Foundation · E Brink Trust Uw Scholarship Fund · Wilkes-Desmond Educational Foundation · Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Conrad H & Anna B Gillen Scholarship Fund · Louis Henry Gross Sponsorship Fdn

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 Jessie H Baker Educational Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jessie H Baker Educational Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • University of New Haven: 1% of income from government
  • The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Pensacola Christian College Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 107 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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