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Michael H Baker Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $123k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $91k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $91,000 |
| WORKERS CIRCLE | $25,000 |
| YIDDISH BOOK CENTER | $25,000 |
| IN GEVEB | $22,000 |
| MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| NEW LEHRHAUS | $11,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR JEWISH FILM | $10,000 |
| RAICES | $2,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $2,500 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $2,500 |
| AL OTRO LADO | $2,500 |
| ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES | $2,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +6% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $560k · revenue +111%
- NYNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC7× · 2019–2025 · $160k · revenue +93%
- MAMinnesota Academy of Science6× · 2020–2025 · $73k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- LILIONWISE INC DBA ESSENTIAL VOICES USAone grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue +18%
- MMMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUNDone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -49%
- NUNOVA UKRAINEone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -45%
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 mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Yiddish Book Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Lehrhaus the Bay Area Hub for Adult Jewish Learning. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 24 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 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Academy of Science ↗
- Who funds YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR JEWISH FILMINC ↗
- Who funds New Lehrhaus The Bay Area Hub for Adult Jewish Learning ↗
- Who funds ASYLUM ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds LIONWISE INC DBA ESSENTIAL VOICES USA ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AL OTRO LADO ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds SHOLOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Women for Afghan Women Inc ↗
- Who funds MALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds NOVA UKRAINE ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Wildflower Garden ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee 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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Michael H Baker Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- National Center for Jewish Filminc — 4% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% 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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