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The Baker Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$940k
Granted FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k42 grants · $712k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARTSQUEST$100,000
THE BAUM SCHOOL OF ART$100,000
NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC$40,000
CALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE$30,000
FLORIDA REPERTORY COMPANY INC$30,000
OUT TEACH$25,000
THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA INC$25,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS$25,000
THE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC$25,000
THE REDFORD CENTER$25,000
TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC$20,000
DMF YOUTH$20,000
HILLSBOROUGH EDUCATION FOUNDATION$20,000
KORESH DANCE COMPANY$20,000
SHARE FOOD PROGRAM INC$20,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

area typical 10%TRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER: $10k → 14%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $40k → 10%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $30k → 10%KELLYN FOUNDATION: $12k → 11%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $10k → 10%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of The Baker Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 21% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 18%.

The Baker Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$978k · 21 repeat orgs$505k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
8

Total granted

$978k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+7%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $410k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • FR
    FLORIDA REPERTORY COMPANY INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $55k · revenue +10%
  • RC
    REDFORD CENTER INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +15%
  • TB
    TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $45k · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -21%
  • TN
    THE NURTURE NATURE CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue 0%
  • SL
    ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL ANDERSON CAMPUS
    one grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue +20%
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.

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Balletx

Balletx expands the vocabulary of contemporary ballet for all audiences through innovative performances, world premiere choreography, dance education, and community programs.

Arts & Culture
2
National Dance Institute

The purposes of the corporation are to introduce and foster the arts into the experience, participation and knowledge of children using dance as a catalyst; promote the belief that the arts are primary and vital in our society and should…

Arts & Culture
3
Lookingglass Theatre Company

Lookingglass theatre company is a national leader in the creation and presentation of innovative, cutting-edge theatrical work. lookingglass interweaves movement, circus arts and narrative in original and captivating ways. guided by an…

Arts & Culture
4
Park Square Theatre

To enrich the community by producing and presenting exceptional live theatre that touches the heart, engages the mind and delights the spirit.

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5
Columbia Childrens Theatre

Inspired by the intelligence and emotional wisdom of young people, we create professional theatre for youth and families, foster inclusive community, and nurture meaningful learning through the arts. We provide these experiences through…

Arts & Culture
6
Duke Ellington School of the Arts Projects

To nurture and inspire passion for the arts and learning in talented students who might not otherwise have an opportunity to develop their artistic skills; to ensure that our students are prepared for post-secondary education and/or…

Education
7
Ballet Metropolitan Inc

Balletmet will celebrate dance by engaging the community through quality performances, instruction, education programs, and creation of new work.

Arts & Culture
8
Center Stage Associates Inc

See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…

Arts & Culture
9
New World Symphony Inc

Prepares gifted graduates of prestigious music programs for successful careers in orchestras and ensembles.

Education
10
Dallas Childrens Theater Inc

The mission of dallas children's theater is to inspire young people to creative and productive lives through the art of theater.to give rise to inspiring theater, dallas children's theater:- creates and produces innovative professional…

Arts & Culture
11
Main Street Theater Houston

To create theater that challenges its audience to think and its artists to grow. We accomplish this by presenting an articulate and compelling product in an intimate setting, creating employment for Houston-based artists, and memorable…

Arts & Culture
12
Company One Inc

Company one theatre builds community at the intersection of art and social change. vision: a boston defined by justice, equity, and artistic innovation. manifesto: welcome to our community, where every audience member, artist, student, and…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc; the most unlike its peers is Color Me Empowered. 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

54 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. 54 of the 58 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
22/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARTSQUEST: $200,000 · Arts & CultureARTSQUESTKORESH DANCE COMPANY: $65,000 · Arts & CultureKORESH DANCE COMPANYFLORIDA REPERTORY COMPANY INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA REPERTORY COMPANY INCBIG THOUGHT: $50,000 · Arts & CultureBIG THOUGHTMain Line Art Center: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMain Line Art CenterTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS BALLET THEATER INCTHE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FLORIDA ORCHESTRAALONZO KING LINES BALLET: $40,000 · Arts & CultureALONZO KING LINES BALLETCALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $130,000 · Arts & Culture+12 moreTHE BAUM SCHOOL OF ART: $100,000 · OtherTHE BAUM SCHOOL OF ARTCRADLE OF LIBERTY COUNCIL 525 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $35,000 · OtherCRADLE OF LIBERTY COUNCIL 525 …TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $30,000 · OtherTAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENT…GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $25,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXASTHE GLADWYNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherTHE GLADWYNE MONTESSORI SCHOOLGOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK: $20,000 · OtherNHNTX INC: $38,000 · OtherNHNTX INCTHE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · OtherTHE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INCFLORIDA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION INC: $30,000 · OtherFLORIDA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC ED…+11 more: $84,000 · Other+11 moreOUT TEACH: $45,000 · EducationOUT TEACHHillsborough Education Foundation Inc: $20,000 · EducationHillsboro…CCSA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationCCSA FOUN…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE DALLAS REGIONINC: $15,000 · EducationCOMMUNITI…KELLER ISD CTE BOOSTER CLUB INC: $12,000 · EducationKELLER IS…Pegasus Media Project: $10,000 · EducationPegasus M…NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesGRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesKELLYN FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Human ServicesTRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $30,000 · Food & NutritionHARVEST HOME FARMER'S MARKET INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionRodale Institute: $12,000 · Food & NutritionGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentOutLoud Dallas: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentREDFORD CENTER INC: $50,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$705,000Other$412,000Education$122,000Human Services$112,000Food & Nutrition$57,000Youth Development$55,000Environment$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARTSQUEST: $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BAUM SCHOOL OF ART: $100,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $70,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetKORESH DANCE COMPANY: $65,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetFLORIDA REPERTORY COMPANY INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBIG THOUGHT: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMain Line Art Center: $50,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetREDFORD CENTER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOUT TEACH: $45,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALONZO KING LINES BALLET: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNHNTX INC: $38,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetCRADLE OF LIBERTY COUNCIL 525 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GLADWYNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHillsborough Education Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCCSA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKQED INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnriching Lives Through Music: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDance Film SF Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE NURTURE NATURE CENTER: $12,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetST LUKE'S HOSPITAL ANDERSON CAMPUS: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Easton Development Partnership: $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKELLYN FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRodale Institute: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOutLoud Dallas: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPegasus Media Project: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetWELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOUCHSTONE THEATRE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOLOR ME EMPOWERED: $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetYOUNG AUDIENCES OF EASTERN PA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA SINFONIA ORCHESTRA: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Tampa Players Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSTOMPING GROUND COMEDY THEATER AND TRAINING CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKIDSPEACE NATIONAL CENTERS FOR KIDS IN CRISIS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Dexter F and Dorothy …Air Products Foundati…Publix Super Markets …Lehigh Valley Communi…United Way of the Gre…National Philanthropi…The William Penn Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…
Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker FoundationPA32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker Foundation · Air Products Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · National Philanthropic Trust · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 The Baker Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Baker Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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
    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.
    05Through 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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