· Private foundation
Joseph D Baker Fund Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF BAKER PARK | $20,000 |
| DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP | $20,000 |
| MISSION OF MERCY | $11,000 |
| MCDANIEL COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| THE ARC OF FREDERICK COUNTY | $6,000 |
| RELIGIOUS COALITION | $6,000 |
| DAYS END HORSE FARM RESCUE | $5,000 |
| FREDERICK COUNTY 4H RIDING | $5,000 |
| LITERACY COUNCIL OF FREDERICK | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FREDERICK | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY LIVING | $4,000 |
| ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES | $4,000 |
| MARYLAND ENSEMBLE THEATRE | $4,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF FREDERICK COUNTY | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS RESCUE MISSION | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 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.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- DFDOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC8× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +115%
- MCMCDANIEL COLLEGE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +64%
- MOMISSION OF MERCY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- SOSEED OF LIFE NURSERIES INCone grant, 2017 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $3k
- COCHILDREN OF INCARCERATED PARENTSone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
The association provides and promotes realtors education and cooperation. it promotes trust and confidence through the support of approximately 1,200 members.
Connecting businesses and the community through leadership, advocacy and education.
Our mission is to improve wellness and resiliency to equitably impact the lifelong health of all frederick county residents
The organization is dedicated to providing affordable services, resources and programs to help responsible pet owners keep their pets healthy, happy and in life-long homes.
Development of agriculture
To positively impact the well-being of every individual in our community.
Our mission is to provide information, understanding, education, and support for persons experiencing mental illness and their families. We are an all volunteer organization that provides its services and information materials free of…
Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.
To fight hunger in fauquier county by providing our neighbors in need with nourishing food and encouraging self-sufficiency through vibrant community partnerships
The fredericksburg regional chamber of commerce promotes business and community activities in the fredericksburg region and surrounding areas.
To enhance the quality of life, autonomy and dignity of marylanders with disabilities by offering cost effective trust services to protect, manage and use trust assets for beneficiaries while preserving eligibility for public and private…
To plan and implement special events and activities to offer the community a shared cultural experience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Frederick County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Frederick County 4-H Therapeutic Riding Program. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 41 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 DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds MCDANIEL COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ENSEMBLE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FREDERICK COUNTY 4-H THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND SHELTER FREDERICK INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FREDERICK CO ↗
- Who funds THE FREDERICK CHILDRENS CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds DAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds THE FREDERICK ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION HOLDING COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC ↗
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: Ausherman Family Foundation · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · William E Cross Foundation Inc · Ausherman Family Trust · The Community Foundation of Frederick County Maryland Inc · United Way of Frederick County Inc · Dr Henry P & M Page Durkee Laughlin Foundation Inc · G Frank Thomas Fdn Inc Main · Nora Roberts Foundation · Tourism Council of Frederick County Inc · The George L Shields Foundation Inc · America's Charities
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 Joseph D Baker Fund Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Friends for Neighborhood Progress — 55% of income from government
- The Frederick Arts Council Inc — 24% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Maryland Ensemble Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
- Downtown Frederick Partnership Inc — 2% of income from government
- Mcdaniel College Inc — 0% of income from government
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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