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The Baker Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222025.

Religion$46kYouth Development$36kHuman Services$25kHealth$25kCrime & Legal$25kArts & Culture$17kRecreation & Sports$17kEducation$3k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $51k
$25,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$17k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Bloomin Boutique$25,250
Xpose Hope$25,250
Oregon Surf Soccer Club$7,500
Individual grant recipient$2,100
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Childrens Healing Art Project: $15k → 12%Bloomin Boutique: $25k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
House of Hope

We assist young mothers with housing and wrap around services.

Human Services
2
Amys Gift of Hope
3
Jubilee Hall Pdx
Employment
4
Mollys Angels
Philanthropy
5
Kids Under the Radar
Human Services
6
The House of Promise

Provide a safe haven for girls who have been victims of trafficking or sexual abuse.

Human Services
7
Operation Nightwatch - Portland

Operation Nightwatch provides nighttime hospitality for Portland's unhoused population. For a few evenings a week, staff and volunteers at thehospitality center provide a safe place, food, socks, blankets, medical care, and welcome our…

Health
8
Hatchers Stocking Inc
Human Services
9
Color Outside the Lines

Color Outside the Lines is a nonprofit committed to creating pathways of hope and healing for foster and at-risk youth through arts enrichment, mentorship, and nature experiences. We believe these experiences are powerful tools for…

Youth Development
10
Christopher Kids

Christopher Kids is a nonprofit corporation that serves children by fostering hope and imagination through specialized, accessible, and personalized spaces. We are dedicated to serving children ages two to twelve in the Southeast facing…

Health
11
Hatsgiving Inc

Donate hats to kids with cancer

Health
12
All About Kids La
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bloomin Boutique and the most unlike its peers is Howard's Heart. 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

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOWARD'S HEART — $21,060 · OtherHOWARD'S HEARTLOVING ONE ANOTHER — $21,060 · OtherLOVING ONE ANOTHEROne Tail at a Time — $15,310 · OtherOne Tail at a TimeOregon Surf Soccer Club — $15,000 · OtherOregon Surf Soccer Club+2 more — $4,100 · Other+2 moreBLOOMIN BOUTIQUE — $25,250 · Human ServicesBLOOMIN BOUTIQUECHILDREN'S HEALING ART PROJECT INC — $15,310 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HEALING ART …XPOSE HOPE — $25,250 · ReligionXPOSE HOPEMICHELLES LOVE — $25,067 · HealthMICHELLES LOVETHE ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD — $25,066 · Crime & LegalTHE ANGELS IN …OREGON MUSIC HALL OF FAME — $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PARK ACADEMY — $1,000 · Education
Other$76,530Human Services$40,560Religion$25,250Health$25,067Crime & Legal$25,066Arts & Culture$2,000Education$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBLOOMIN BOUTIQUE — $25,250 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetMICHELLES LOVE — $25,067 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD — $25,066 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetHOWARD'S HEART — $21,060 over 1y, 28% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALING ART PROJECT INC — $15,310 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetOREGON MUSIC HALL OF FAME — $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE PARK ACADEMY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Autzen FoundationOR17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 The Baker Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 60%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • Children's Healing Art Project Inc4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Baker Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Baker Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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