· Private foundation
The Baker Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POKES WITH A PURPOSE | $2,000 |
| CHRIS AND PATRICIA BURNS JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| SHEFFIELD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| THE CHADWICK FOUNDATION | $800 |
| THE BIRTHDAY FAIRY INC | $748 |
| CROSSROADS COMMUNITY CHURCH | $603 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA FOUNDATION | $600 |
| SHEFFIELD HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL | $570 |
| FLORENCE ALL STARS | $500 |
| SHEFFIELD HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL | $250 |
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 (FY21–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- SESHEFFIELD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +70%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +80%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES2× · 2018–2023 · $2k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- CMCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +31%
- MSMUSCLE SHOALS SONGWRITERS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +2%
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +10%
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.
To operate exclusively for charitable, literary and educational purposes.
To raise funds to support the work of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Alabama's State Archival and Museum agency.
The Charlie Jean Foundation seeks to support hematology and oncology patients and their families at Children's Hospital of Alabama. We seek to lessen the financial burden of a diagnosis by providing support to families and by raising…
To help local combat veterans with any type of assistance needed
This charitable corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes. including but not limited to providing grants to advance scientific research and aid families impacted by…
Armstrong state university foundation, inc ("foundation') raises funds to support student scholarships and the scientific, literary, and educational purposes of armstrong state university.effective july 1, 2019, the foundation was merged…
Assist and further research at georgia southern university
The foundation's purpose is to receive, solicit, accept and hold, administer, invest and disburse property and funds for the educational mission of henderson state university. the foundation provides hsu with resources not provided by…
The foundation provides scholarships, awards, and monies for other apsu educational purposes.
To provide information to the public regarding neuroblastoma cancer
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florence All Stars and the most unlike its peers is Pokes With a Purpose Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 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. 21 of the 45 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 CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE ALL STARS ↗
- Who funds SHEFFIELD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSCLE SHOALS SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR 2 WARRIOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds JULIE WEINTRAUB'S HANDS ACROSS THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds Pokes With A Purpose Inc ↗
- Who funds Alabama Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Helen Keller Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSCLE SHOALS MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BIRTHDAY FAIRY INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE IS A GIFT INC ↗
- Who funds CHADWICK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROTHROCK FOUNDATION ↗
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 Long Lewis Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 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.