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Patty and Jay Baker Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $20k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.0M
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$124k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC$1,045,286
THE NAPLES PLAYERS INC$1,000,000
SECOND CHANCES FOR BLIND DOGS FOUNDATION INC$2,000
PILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC$2,000
PAWS OF WAR INC$2,000
EQUINE VOICES RESCUE & SANCTUARY$2,000
PROJECT K9 HERO$2,000
HOOVES & PAWS ANIMAL RESCUE INC$1,000
PAWS OF HONOR INC$1,000
SAVE-A-PET ANIMAL RESCUE INC$1,000
SMILING DOG FARMS$1,000
MUTTS WITH A MISSION$1,000
DHARMA RESCUE FOR CATS AND DOGS$1,000
CASEY TO THE RESCUE DOG TRANSPORT INC$1,000
4 PAWS ON DECK INC$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $701k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PAWS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC: $120k → 10%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $15k → 17%THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $25k → 10%THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $16k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $195k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $170k → 10%NAPLES SENIOR CENTER AT JFCS: $160k → 10%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

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

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$33M · 12 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
22

Total granted

$33M
$14M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+39%

Still filing today

83%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
AnimalsArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • NC
    NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $20M · revenue +26%
  • GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $10M · revenue +552%
  • AI
    ARTIS-NAPLES INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1.1M · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3.0M · revenue +102%
  • NH
    NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM (NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION)
    one grant, 2018 · $3.0M
  • NH
    NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $3.0M
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 Adoptable Dog
Animals
2
Florida Pointer Rescue Inc

Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f

Animals
3
Pet Animal Welfare Society of Connecticut Inc

Pet animal welfare society of ct (paws), established in 1962, is a no-kill animal rescue shelter dedicated to the rescue and adoption of our community's homeless and abused dogs and cats. paws efforts are focused on three critical needs:…

Animals
4
K9 Hurricane's Heroes Inc

K9 hurricane's heroes, a federally recognized, non-profit organization, provides "retired law enforcement and military dogs" with subsidized veterinary care so they can live a long and healthy life. often these incredible dogs are the…

Animals
5
No Dogs Left Behind
Animals
6
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
7
Pasado's Safe Haven

Fighting to end animal cruelty and create a more compassionate world.(continued in schedule o)fiscal year 2024-2025 highlights include:investigated/resourced 71 animal cruelty cases, provided care andrehabilitations for 398 animals at our…

Animals
8
Raskels Rescue
Animals
9
Puppies Behind Bars Inc

Puppies behind bars trains incarcerated individuals to raise service dogs for wounded war veterans and first responders, facility dogs for police departments, and explosive-detecton canines for law enforcement.

Human Services
10
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Tampa Bay Florida Inc

Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…

Animals
11
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
12
Patriot Paws Service Dogs

To train and provide service dogs of the highest quality at no cost to disabled american veterans and others with mobile disabilities in order to help restore their physical and emotional independence.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mad Hatter Farm. 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

40 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. 40 of the 50 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
28/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC: $20,000,000 · HealthNAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INCNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $1,000,000 · Health+3 more: $115,000 · HealthGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC: $10,204,603 · Arts & CultureGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INCARTIS-NAPLES INC: $1,080,000 · Arts & CultureARTIS-NAPLES INCTHE NAPLES PLAYERS INC: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NAPLES PLAYERS INC+3 more: $448,000 · Arts & CultureNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM (NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION): $3,000,000 · OtherNCH HEALTHCARE S…NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $3,000,000 · OtherNCH HEALTHCARE S…CITY OF NAPLES (BAKER PARK): $600,000 · OtherCITY OF NAPLES (…+10 more: $427,750 · Other+10 moreTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $3,015,000 · EducationTHE HUNTER C…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $2,000,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL…CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $235,000 · EducationBAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC: $525,000 · Human ServicesGolden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc: $119,500 · Human ServicesTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $41,000 · Human Services+1 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR: $520,000 · Youth DevelopmentNAPLES ZOO INC: $92,000 · AnimalsPATTY BAKER HUMANE SOCIETY NAPLES INC: $46,800 · AnimalsPILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC: $17,000 · Animals+14 more: $22,000 · AnimalsUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Health$21,115,000Arts & Culture$12,732,603Other$7,027,750Education$5,250,000Human Services$700,500Youth Development$520,000Animals$177,800Philanthropy$10,000

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

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 budgetMAYO CLINIC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

Morris & Arlene Goldf…Farrell Family Founda…Surendra and Karen Gu…Seckinger Foundation …The Anne Beverly McCo…Edwin D Marks Animal …The Fagenson Family F…Susan & Jerome Ettels…The J R Stein Family …John R Oltman Charita…Gat Family FoundationThe Susan and Ford Sc…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Patty and Jay Baker Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patty and Jay Baker Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
  • The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Gulfshore Playhouse Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Naples Community Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Patty and Jay Baker Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Patty and Jay Baker Foundation Inc 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 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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