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Michael H Baker Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$227k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$91k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$567kArts & Culture$227kHealth$84kScience & Tech$73kReligion$57kEmployment$25kInternational$19kCivil Rights$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $123k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $91k
$11,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$91,000
YIDDISH BOOK CENTER$25,000
WORKERS CIRCLE$25,000
IN GEVEB$22,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$15,000
MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE$15,000
NEW LEHRHAUS$11,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR JEWISH FILM$10,000
RAICES$2,500
AL OTRO LADO$2,500
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$2,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA$2,500
ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES$2,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$1,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AL OTRO LADO: $3k → 14%AL OTRO LADO: $3k → 14%AL OTRO LADO: $1k → 14%AL OTRO LADO: $1k → 14%AL OTRO LADO: $1k → 14%AL OTRO LADO: $500 → 14%AL OTRO LADO: $500 → 14%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $1k → 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
MN
NY
MA
CA
MD
DC
TX
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 18 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against -9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
5

Total granted

$1.1M
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
-9%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsReligionOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $560k · revenue +111%
  • NY
    NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $160k · revenue +93%
  • MA
    Minnesota Academy of Science
    6× · 2020–2025 · $73k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • LI
    LIONWISE INC DBA ESSENTIAL VOICES USA
    one grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue +18%
  • MM
    MALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -49%
  • NU
    NOVA UKRAINE
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -45%
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
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

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3
Weizmann Institute of Science

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…

Science & Tech
4
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
6
American Jewish Committee

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…

Civil Rights
7
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
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8
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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9
Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
10
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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.…

Arts & Culture
11
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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12
Clal-the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc

A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Yiddish Book Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 24 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
11/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $560,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONNew Lehrhaus The Bay Area Hub for Adult Jewish Learning: $21,000 · Education+1 more: $7,100 · EducationIN GEVEB: $85,000 · OtherIN GEVEBMinnesota Academy of Science: $72,500 · OtherMinnesota Academy of S…WORKERS CIRCLE: $25,000 · OtherWORKERS CIRCLEASYLUM ARTS INC: $18,500 · OtherASYLUM ARTS INCLIONWISE INC DBA ESSENTIAL VOICES USA: $15,700 · OtherLIONWISE INC DBA ESSEN…+2 more: $6,000 · OtherNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $160,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL YIDDISH BO…NATIONAL CENTER FOR JEWISH FILMINC: $32,323 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CENTER FOR…YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC: $36,000 · ReligionMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $16,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,500 · InternationalWomen for Afghan Women Inc: $1,500 · InternationalNOVA UKRAINE: $1,000 · International+1 more: $500 · InternationalREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $13,000 · Civil RightsMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND: $1,000 · Civil RightsPARTNERS IN HEALTH: $13,500 · HealthAL OTRO LADO: $9,500 · Human ServicesSHOLOM FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Human Services
Education$588,100Other$222,700Arts & Culture$192,323Religion$36,000International$21,500Civil Rights$14,000Health$13,500Human Services$13,500

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $560,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $160,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMinnesota Academy of Science: $72,500 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetYIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC: $36,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR JEWISH FILMINC: $32,323 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetNew Lehrhaus The Bay Area Hub for Adult Jewish Learning: $21,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetASYLUM ARTS INC: $18,500 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $16,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLIONWISE INC DBA ESSENTIAL VOICES USA: $15,700 over 1y, 22% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH: $13,500 over 6y, 9.7% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $13,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAL OTRO LADO: $9,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES INC: $7,100 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSHOLOM FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWomen for Afghan Women Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOVA UKRAINE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $500 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Michael H Baker Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael H Baker Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • National Center for Jewish Filminc: 4% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 Michael H Baker Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Michael H Baker Family 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 24 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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