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Julie & Doug Baker Jr Foundation at a glance

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Julie & Doug Baker Jr Foundation

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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$192k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$4.7MArts & Culture$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.4MHuman Services$1.4MReligion$1.1MHealth$862kEnvironment$556kCrime & Legal$400kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $230k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $882k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$192,000
WAY TO GROW$170,000
GREAT MN SCHOOLS$150,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$140,000
UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS$80,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$50,000
EDALLIES$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
BABY'S SPACE - A PLACE TO GROW$30,000
BANYAN FOUNDATION$30,000
WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS$30,000
YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS$30,000
OASIS FOR YOUTH$15,000
MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN ART$15,000
PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $951k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $50k → 12%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $2k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $2k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $2k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $30k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $20k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $2k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $9k → 11%LIONS INK: $10k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $2k → 11%THINK SMALL: $30k → 14%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $5k → 11%THINK SMALL: $25k → 14%WAY TO GROW: $65k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $65k → 11%YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $150k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $3k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $3k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $3k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $3k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $500 → 11%BABY'S SPACE - A PLACE TO GROW: $30k → 11%BABY'S SPACE - A PLACE TO GROW: $3k → 11%BABYS SPACE A PLACE TO GROW: $2k → 11%BABY'S SPACE - A PLACE TO GROW: $2k → 11%BABYS SPACE A PLACE TO GROW: $2k → 11%BABY'S SPACE: $2k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $1k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $2k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $2k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $2k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $2k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $170k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $118k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $80k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $54k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
MN
IL
WI
MA
OH
UT
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 57 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
37

Total granted

$11M
$946k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+17%

Still filing today

77%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +51%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS
    4× · 2017–2023 · $770k · revenue +44%
  • WT
    WAY TO GROW
    6× · 2017–2024 · $552k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +17%
  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTHgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +31%
  • N
    NEON
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
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
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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2
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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3
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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4
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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5
Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth

Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.

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6
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
7
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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8
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
9
Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…

Education
10
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
11
Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership

The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…

Community Improvement
12
Minnesota Comeback

Driven by an unwavering moral imperative that every child, regardless of its race, income or zip code, deserves the same high-quality education, mn comeback has become a growing movement of philanthropists, community leaders and education…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Roland Park Community Foundation 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

79 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. 79 of the 103 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/79
Grantees still filing
51/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE --: $1,235,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE --ST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $1,014,000 · OtherST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL CHURCHTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $530,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYCATHOLIC CHARITIES: $375,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESIndividual grant recipient: $300,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTwin Cities Rise: $260,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $250,000 · Other+44 more: $1,173,500 · Other+44 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,030,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $770,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF…GREAT MN SCHOOLS: $550,000 · EducationGREAT MN SCHOOLSUniversity of St Thomas: $320,000 · EducationUniversity of St Thomas+13 more: $389,500 · Education+13 moreMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $1,210,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA OR…THE MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN ART: $105,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM O…TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $75,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $63,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $600,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER TWI…THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $492,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MINNEAP…The Constellation Fund: $300,000 · PhilanthropyThe Constel…+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyWAY TO GROW: $551,900 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $150,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $64,000 · Human ServicesThink Small: $55,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON: $50,000 · Human ServicesBABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW: $40,500 · Human Services+6 more: $39,500 · Human ServicesMAYO CLINIC: $800,000 · Health+7 more: $52,000 · HealthNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $400,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$5,138,000Education$3,059,500Arts & Culture$1,453,000Philanthropy$1,397,000Human Services$950,900Health$852,000Crime & Legal$400,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $1,210,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,030,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $800,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $770,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $600,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWAY TO GROW: $551,900 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetGREAT MN SCHOOLS: $550,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $492,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $400,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $320,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Constellation Fund: $300,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTwin Cities Rise: $260,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE: $105,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN ART: $105,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetCLOSE GAPS BY 5: $100,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetUPTURNSHIPS INC: $90,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $78,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEd Allies: $72,500 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $64,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEDINA GIVE AND GO: $62,500 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThink Small: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW: $40,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetThe Banyan Foundation: $40,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetOASIS FOR YOUTH: $34,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetPENUMBRA THEATRE COMPANY INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetKIPP Minnesota: $21,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPROTEZ FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOLY CROSS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH NEUROIMMUNE DISORDERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLion's Fire: $10,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% 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 MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
  • Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds WAY TO GROW ↗
  • Who funds GREAT MN SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
  • Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
  • Who funds The Constellation Fund ↗
  • Who funds Twin Cities Rise ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
  • Who funds BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN ART ↗
  • Who funds CLOSE GAPS BY 5 ↗
  • Who funds UPTURNSHIPS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds Ed Allies ↗
  • Who funds YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
  • Who funds EDINA GIVE AND GO ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Think Small ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON ↗
  • Who funds BABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW ↗
  • Who funds The Banyan Foundation ↗

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Mortenson Family Foun…Otto Bremer TrustThe Richard M Schulze…Wem FoundationThe Walser FoundationCh Robinson Worldwide…Mightycause Charitabl…Frey FoundationThe McKnight Foundati…Xcel Energy Foundation
The Minneapolis FoundationMN61.3× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Wem Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Frey Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Xcel Energy 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 Julie & Doug Baker Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Julie & Doug Baker Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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How do I get to Julie & Doug Baker Jr Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Julie & Doug Baker Jr 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 103 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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