Alabama · Private foundation
Sara Baker Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $31k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 3
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $531k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Sara Baker Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $31k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $21k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $20k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $30k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $26k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Children's Advocacy Center Inc | $56,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Village of Promise Incorporated | $47,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Lincoln Village Preservation Corporation | $38,750 | 4 | 1% |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($86k), not named here.
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 Beard-Young Family Foundation · Alpha Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Sara Baker Foundation Inc
- How much does Sara Baker Foundation Inc give?
- Sara Baker Foundation Inc reported 3 grants totaling $31,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 3 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sara Baker Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (29%), Crime & Legal (18%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Sara Baker Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: National Children's Advocacy Center Inc ($56k), Village of Promise Incorporated ($48k), Lincoln Village Preservation Corporation ($39k).
- Does Sara Baker Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sara Baker Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sara Baker Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Beard-Young Family Foundation, Alpha Foundation, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama.
- Where is Sara Baker Foundation Inc based?
- Sara Baker Foundation Inc is based in AL.
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