· Private foundation
Robert V Baker Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MORNING STAR FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| EASTERN WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NORTHWEST NORTH POLE ADVENTURES | $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 |
| HOLY NAMES MUSIC CENTER | $15,000 |
| SAFETY NET | $15,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 25 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.
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- Who funds NORTHWEST NORTH POLE ADVENTURES % LAW OFFICE OF JOSEPH A BLUMEL III ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE IN ME ↗
- Who funds SAFETY NET SPOKANE ↗
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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.
Open a dossier: The Avista Foundation · Innovia Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert V Baker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert V Baker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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