· Private foundation
Richard a Baker Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $14,591 |
| CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF | $10,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL SOUTH | $8,600 |
| A AGING ADVANTAGE | $5,300 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF KIRKWOOD | $3,000 |
| CARDINALS CARE | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION POST 156 | $2,370 |
| ELIJAH MOORE DREAMERS FUND INC | $2,000 |
| LINDBERGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $1,655 |
| KIRK CARE FOOD PANTRY | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–23, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- CICENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF5× · 2018–2024 · $50k · revenue +1%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +3%
- SMSUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- OIOASIS INTERNATIONALone grant, 2017 · $15k
- MPMARLIN PERKIN'S SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $10k
- NNNATIONAL NETWORK OF STATE TEACHERS OF THE YEARone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
To engage individuals in sharing their time, talent and treasure to support the programs and services of the chaddock family of organizations.
Chicago canine rescue foundation finds permanent homes for homeless dogs in our community with a specific emphasis on assisting the most vulnerable animals, who without our help, would have no other options. while in our care, they are…
Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
Steadfast in jesus christ as revealed in the holy scriptures, concordia university chicago promotes academic rigor in its liberal arts and professional programs; grounds students in objective truth, integrity, and excellence; and practices…
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
To enable individuals with developmental disabilities to achieve the highest level of independent living and live a full and enriched life.
Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.
The mission of city dogs city kitties rescue is to rescue dogs and cats from high-kill shelters and adopt them to loving, permanent families in the washington, dc metropolitan area. city dogs city kitties rescue is able to accomplish this…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.
Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill and the most unlike its peers is Kirkwood Theatre Guild. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 38 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 CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PARAQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL ↗
- Who funds FIVE ACRES ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds EDENS ARMY ↗
- Who funds Dogs For Our Brave Inc ↗
- Who funds LINDBERGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE 410 BRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CARDINALS COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds KIRKWOOD THEATRE GUILD ↗
- Who funds FENTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION 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: The Samuel and Justina Halley Charitable Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · United Way Worldwide · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Richard a Baker 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.
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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