How much did JOSEPH D BAKER FUND INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of JOSEPH D BAKER FUND INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

frederickrescue

2019

frederickrescue

2020

frederickrescue

2021

frederickrescue

2022

frederickrescue

2023

give back

2024

give back

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k20 grants · $67k
$10k–50k4 grants · $61k

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP$20,000
FRIENDS OF BAKER PARK$20,000
MISSION OF MERCY$11,000
MCDANIEL COLLEGE$10,000
RELIGIOUS COALITION$6,000
THE ARC OF FREDERICK COUNTY$6,000
DAYS END HORSE FARM RESCUE$5,000
FREDERICK COUNTY 4H RIDING$5,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FREDERICK$5,000
LITERACY COUNCIL OF FREDERICK$5,000
MARYLAND ENSEMBLE THEATRE$4,000
COMMUNITY LIVING$4,000
ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES$4,000
UNITED WAY OF FREDERICK COUNTY$3,000
FRIENDS RESCUE MISSION$3,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6% — the area typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$845k · 34 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$845k

$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+158%

Still filing today

44%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

DF
DOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP
8× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +67%
MC
MCDANIEL COLLEGE
8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +22%
TA
THE ARC OF FREDERICK COUNTY
8× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +115%

Funded once

SO
SEED OF LIFE NURSERIES INC
one grant, 2017 · $3k
FO
FLOWERS OVER FREDERICK
one grant, 2019 · $3k
CO
CHILDREN OF INCARCERATED PARENTSgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +158%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Frederick County Association of

The association provides and promotes realtors education and cooperation. it promotes consumer trust and confidence through the support of its members.

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The Chamber of Commerce of Frederick

An association of businesses organized to enhance the economic and social vitality of frederick county, maryland, by advocating and promoting the interests of business, sound government practices, and an informed membership and community.

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The Historical Society of Frederick

The historical society of frederick county is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to increasing public understanding and appreciation of the history of frederick county, maryland.

Arts & Culture

First Maryland Disability Trust Inc

Providing trust services to individuals with disabilities of all ages throughout maryland.

Human Services

Fredericksburg Academy

We inspire and empower our students to discover, to engage, and to imagine the limitless nature of themselves and the world.

Education

Frederick Health Hospital Inc

To positively impact the well-being of every individual in our community.

Health

Franklin County Area Development

To promote economic development strategies for franklin county, pennsylvania

—

Fredericksburg Area Health and

To positively impact individual and community health.

Health

The Frederick County Humane Society Inc

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. the organization improves the quality of life for animals in…

Animals

Fauquier Community Child Care Inc

To provide continuous high quality, affordable, accessible, licensed care to meet the out of school time needs of children in fauquier county public schools within a nurturing environment that encourages children to grow, interact and…

Human Services

Disability Rights Maryland Inc

DRM advances the human and legal rights of people with disabilities, helping secure their opportunities to participate fully in community life, and defending their rights to self-determination, dignity, and equality.

Crime & Legal

Fauquier Community Food Bank & Thrift Store

To fight hunger in fauquier county by providing our neighbors in need with nourishing food and encouraging self-sufficiency through vibrant community partnerships

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Frederick Arts Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mcdaniel College 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

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/17

Grantees still filing

14/17

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$513,500Education$114,000Community Improvement$110,000Philanthropy$35,000Housing & Shelter$33,000Human Services$32,000Youth Development$22,000

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.

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.

Ausherman Family TrustMD31.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ausherman Family Trust · Ausherman Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Frederick · William E Cross Foundation Inc · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · United Way of Frederick County Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · America's Charities · Dr Henry P & M Page Durkee Laughlin · G Frank Thomas Fdn Inc Main · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Helen J Serini Foundation Inc

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~11 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 521566505 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Joseph D Baker Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Joseph D Baker Fund Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

JOSEPH D BAKER FUND INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Joseph D Baker Fund Inc?

More from the funding graph

JOSEPH D BAKER FUND INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Joseph D Baker Fund Inc?

More from the funding graph