· Private foundation
Robert V Baker Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $365k
- $250k+1 grant · $380k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG BROTHERS | $380,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $40,000 |
| CCS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $30,000 |
| HUTTON SETTLEMENT INC | $30,000 |
| EASTERN WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NORTHWEST NORTH POLE ADVENTURES | $25,000 |
| MORNING STAR FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| FOSTER CARE CCS | $20,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF SPOKANE COUNTY | $20,000 |
| WSU COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE | $20,000 |
| YMCA | $20,000 |
| SAFETY NET | $15,000 |
| HOLY NAMES MUSIC CENTER | $15,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
23 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
THE HUTTON SETTLEMENT8× · 2018–2025 · $789k · revenue +283%- TTransitions8× · 2018–2025 · $108k · revenue +29%
- NNNORTHWEST NORTH POLE ADVENTURES % LAW OFFICE OF JOSEPH A BLUMEL III8× · 2018–2025 · $106k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- PEPALOUSE EMPIRE JR MARKETone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
Prevention of child abuse
Institutional placement, after care supervision, remedial education programs, community based services, and social workservices to children and families.
Read Northwest exists to elevate Early Childhood Literacy in Southwest Washington.
A scholarship fund
The Friendship Circle extends respite, inclusion,support and friendship to families, children and teens with special needs and involves them in a full range of social, educational & life skills experiences. this unique formula introduces…
To provide youth at risk due with housing and opportunities for personal growth, education, spiritual growth, job skill training from a christian worldview
IBE is committed to removing any financial obstacles that stand in a family's way of providing an Arizona private school K-12 education for their children and their unique needs. This is successfully accomplished with Arizona Tax Credit…
Providing scholarships for the graduates of colfax, wa high school.
The Trust provides and maintains counseling, and training programs for journeyman and apprentice employees of participating employers to prepare said employees for work in the sheet metal industry.
To promote student success in the Salt Lake City School District by using private donations to supplement children's educational experiences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Believe in Me and the most unlike its peers is The Isaac Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 25 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 THE HUTTON SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds Transitions ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST NORTH POLE ADVENTURES % LAW OFFICE OF JOSEPH A BLUMEL III ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE IN ME ↗
- Who funds SAFETY NET SPOKANE ↗
- Who funds The ISAAC Foundation ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Inland Empire Electrical Training Trust ↗
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 Avista Foundation · Innovia Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Robert V 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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