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Patty and Jay Baker Foundation Inc

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.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
63%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,045,286
Organizations funded a year
1 to 22
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$124k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 63% of the organizations Patty and Jay Baker Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’23’24
HealthAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving17$2.1M88%
FY20248$14M63%
FY20233$4.9M100%
FY20211$5k100%
FY20201$1.0M100%
FY20193$11M33%
FY20188$4.3M13%
FY201722$10Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$29MArts & Culture$13MEducation$3.4MHuman Services$726kPublic Benefit$610kYouth Development$520kAnimals$174kHousing & Shelter$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
NY
OH
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 40 grantees
All grantees of Patty and Jay Baker Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Naples Community Hospital Inc$20,000,00032%
Gulfshore Playhouse Inc$10,204,60334%
The Hunter College Foundation Inc$3,015,000120%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$2,000,00010%
Artis-Naples Inc$1,080,00022%
The Naples Players Inc$1,000,0001n/a
Nch Healthcare System Inc$1,000,000114%
Baker Senior Center Naples Inc$525,0002n/a
Boys & Girls Club of Collier County Flor$520,00024%
New York Shakespeare Festival$273,00011%
Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc$235,00021%
Sag Harbor Partnership Inc$125,00012%
Golden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc$119,500110%
The Drama League of New York Inc$100,00015%
Naples Zoo Inc$92,00011%
Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc$50,00020%
Patty Baker Humane Society Naples Inc$46,80011%
The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc$41,00020%
The Salvation Army$40,0001n/a
Pilots to the Rescue Inc$17,00020%
Women in Need Inc$15,00010%
Milwaukee Youth Theatre Inc$10,00019%
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$10,00010%
Paralyzed Veterans of America$10,00020%
Fishing Has No Boundaries Inc$10,00013%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$5,00010%
Mad Hatter Farm$5,0001n/a
Second Chances for Blind Dogs Foundation Inc$2,0001n/a
Project K9 Hero$2,0001n/a
Equine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary$2,0001n/a
Paws of War Inc$2,0001n/a
Save a Pet Animal Rescue Inc$1,0001n/a
Wounded Paw Project$1,0001n/a
Ring Dog Rescue Inc$1,00010%
Smiling Dog Farms$1,0001n/a
Mutts With a Mission$1,0001n/a
All Paws on Deck$1,00010%
Dharma Rescue for Cats and Dogs$1,00010%
Hooves & Paws Animal Rescue Inc$1,0001n/a
Paws of Honor Inc$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Patty and Jay Baker Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNaples Community Hospital Inc: $20,000,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetGulfshore Playhouse Inc: $10,204,603 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetThe Hunter College Foundation Inc: $3,015,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArtis-Naples Inc: $1,080,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNch Healthcare System Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Collier County Flor: $520,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetNew York Shakespeare Festival: $273,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: $235,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSag Harbor Partnership Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGolden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc: $119,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetThe Drama League of New York Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetNaples Zoo Inc: $92,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMilwaukee Repertory Theater Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPatty Baker Humane Society Naples Inc: $46,800 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc: $41,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPilots to the Rescue Inc: $17,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWomen in Need Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMilwaukee Youth Theatre Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParalyzed Veterans of America: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFishing Has No Boundaries Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRing Dog Rescue Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAll Paws on Deck: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDharma Rescue for Cats and Dogs: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Morris & Arlene Goldfarb Family Foundation IncNY17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morris & Arlene Goldfarb Family Foundation Inc · Farrell Family Foundation · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · The Anne Beverly McCormack Foundation · Edwin D Marks Animal Foundation · The Fagenson Family Foundation · Susan & Jerome Ettelson Fund · The J R Stein Family Foundation (F/K/A the Stein Family Fund) · John R Oltman Charitable Foundation · Gat Family Foundation · The Susan and Ford Schumann 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.

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About Patty and Jay Baker Foundation Inc

How much does Patty and Jay Baker Foundation Inc give?
Patty and Jay Baker Foundation Inc reported 17 grants totaling $2,065,286 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Patty and Jay Baker Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (61%), Arts & Culture (27%), Education (7%).
Who are Patty and Jay Baker Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Naples Community Hospital Inc ($20M), Gulfshore Playhouse Inc ($10M), The Hunter College Foundation Inc ($3.0M).
Does Patty and Jay Baker Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Patty and Jay Baker Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Patty and Jay Baker Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morris & Arlene Goldfarb Family Foundation Inc, Farrell Family Foundation, Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation.
Where is Patty and Jay Baker Foundation Inc based?
Patty and Jay Baker Foundation Inc is based in WI.

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 50 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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