How much does Ruth & Louis Baker Family Found give?

Ruth & Louis Baker Family Found reported 52 grants totaling $44,565 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 62 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Ruth & Louis Baker Family Found fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (25%), Food & Nutrition (13%), Environment (10%).

Who are Ruth & Louis Baker Family Found's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Microaid International Inc ($8k), Informed Consent Action Network ($7k), Dutchess Outreach Inc ($7k).

Does Ruth & Louis Baker Family Found fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Ruth & Louis Baker Family Found accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ruth & Louis Baker Family Found?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation, Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc, The Hassenfeld Family Foundation.

Where is Ruth & Louis Baker Family Found based?

Ruth & Louis Baker Family Found is based in NH.

Ruth & Louis Baker Family Found

Ruth & Louis Baker Family Found at a glance

· Private foundation

Ruth & Louis Baker Family Found

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$45k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$39kFood & Nutrition$20kEnvironment$15kInternational$13kArts & Culture$11kAnimals$9kCivil Rights$7kHuman Services$7kOther$0

02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500

Median grant

States reached

$130k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Microaid International	$5,000
Informed Consent Action Network	$5,000
Childrens Health Defense	$4,000
Duchess Outreach	$2,500
RIP Medical Debt	$2,000
Urban Perinatal Education Center	$2,000
Hudson Valley Hospice	$1,500
RI Food Bank	$1,500
Poughkeepsie Food Pantry SA	$1,000
Dutchess County SPCA	$1,000
Grace Smith House Inc	$1,000
React 19 Inc	$1,000
Meals on Wheels of Greater Poughkee	$1,000
Planned Parenthood of Southern NE	$1,000
RI American Civil Liberties	$515

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$136k · 80 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

80 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$136k

$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+66%

Still filing today

61%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEnvironmentInternationalArts & CultureEducationOther

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

MI
MICROAID INTERNATIONAL INC
4× · 2019–2024 · $8k · revenue +32%
IC
INFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK
3× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +14%
DO
DUTCHESS OUTREACH INC
6× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +180%

Funded once

HV
Hudson Valley Hospice Inc
one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +12%
MO
MEALS ON WHEELS OF GRTER POUGHKPSIEgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $600 · revenue +82%
HO
Hui O Waa Kauluagraduated
one grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +523%

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.

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment

Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc

To protect the nature of massachusetts for people and for wildlife through education, land conservation, advocacy, scientific research, and habitat stewardship/restoration.

Environment

Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals

World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International

The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adoption Rhode Island; the most unlike its peers is Firelight Theatre Workshop. 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

69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 69 of the 123 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

69/69

Grantees still filing

54/69

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$82,865Human Services$26,100Health$14,650Environment$11,200Public Safety & Disaster$7,500Animals$7,300International$5,450

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.

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.

The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI22× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · The Hassenfeld Family Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · The Dyson Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Herbert H Redl Family Foundation · Cvs Health Charity Classic Inc · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn

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 Ruth & Louis Baker Family Found funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruth & Louis Baker Family Found. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home