· Private foundation
Richard a Baker Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $14,591 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF | $10,000 |
| LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL SOUTH | $8,600 |
| A AGING ADVANTAGE | $5,300 |
| CARDINALS CARE | $3,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF KIRKWOOD | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- NNNATIONAL NETWORK OF STATE TEACHERS OF THE YEARone grant, 2019 · $10k
- MPMARLIN PERKIN'S SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 38 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PARAQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds EDENS ARMY ↗
- Who funds FIVE ACRES ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard a Baker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard a Baker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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