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The Baker Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$145k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$585kHuman Services$235kEducation$165kYouth Development$105kArts & Culture$94kReligion$50kEnvironment$40kPhilanthropy$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LONG BEACH MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER$60,000
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$20,000
RESTORE NYC$15,000
SHARED SCIENCE$10,000
LONG BEACH BLAST$10,000
A NEW DAWN OF SHINAH FOUNDATION$10,000
THE TREVOR PROJECT$10,000
WOMENS SHELTER OF LONG BEACH$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%WOMENS SHELTER OF LONG BEACH: $10k → 14%WOMENSHELTER OF LONG BEACH: $10k → 14%WOMENS SHELTER OF LONG BEACH: $10k → 14%WOMENS SHELTER OF LONG BEACH: $10k → 14%WOMENS SHELTER OF LONG BEACH: $10k → 14%CHILDREN TODAY: $5k → 14%CHILDREN TODAY: $5k → 14%CHILDREN TODAY: $5k → 14%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 6% of The Baker Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 61%.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 21 repeat orgs$148k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
16

Total granted

$1.2M
$148k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+15%

Still filing today

67%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther
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

  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +112%
  • HA
    HEROES AMONG US INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $75k · revenue +14% · 79% of their budget
  • LB
    Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today
    7× · 2018–2024 · $70k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • TS
    TEAM SPIRIT
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • PB
    PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +31%
  • WF
    WARRIORS FOR LIFE AMERICA
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.

1
California State University Long Beach Research Foundation

Serves the mission of the university by supporting and engaging in research, entrepreneurship, community service, sponsored programs and the acquisition of private resources.

Education
2
Long Beach State Foundation

The foundation seeks, secures and manages private support for california state university, long beach. (see schedule o)as the philanthropic foundation for the university, all donations in support of our students, faculty, programs and…

Education
3
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
4
Nyu Langone Hospitals

The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…

Health
5
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
6
Nyu Langone Health System

The board adopted mission statement is: the corporation is operated exclusively for the benefit of nyu langone hospitals and its affiliated organizations. in this capacity, the corporation, may, in order to improve the health and welfare…

Health
7
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement
8
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
9
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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10
Memorial Medical Center Foundation

To cultivate and secure all types of gifts, grants, bequests, and to administer trust and endowment funds and fund development programs, for long beach memorial medical center, a nonprofit public benefit corporation and tax exempt public…

Health
11
The Brain Tumor Network Inc

The brain tumor network (btn) is dedicated to providing compassionate, personalized navigation services to brain tumor patients and caregivers. btn also assists patients in finding clinical trials that may be an appropriate match for them.…

Health
12
Long Beach Rescue Mission Foundation

To operate exclusively for the benefit of long beach rescue mission, a california nonprofit corporation, and other organizations that are closely related in purpose or function to long beach rescue mission and which are publicly supported…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Heroes Among Us Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 37 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LONG BEACH MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER: $170,000 · OtherLONG BEACH MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTERCOMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF LONG BEACH: $112,270 · OtherCOMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF LONG BEACHLONG BEACH MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $103,000 · OtherLONG BEACH MEMORIAL HOSPITALHEROES AMONG US INC: $75,000 · OtherHEROES AMONG US INCA NEW DAWN OF SHINAH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherA NEW DAWN OF SHINAH FOUNDATIONPATHWAYS: $30,000 · OtherOPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC: $30,000 · OtherTEAM SPIRIT: $30,000 · OtherKOCE-TV FOUNDATION: $27,500 · Other+16 more: $120,500 · Other+16 moreSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL …Long Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today: $70,000 · EducationLong Beach BLAST Bette…STEVEN M PEREZ FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · EducationSTEVEN M PEREZ FOUNDAT…Shared Science: $30,000 · EducationShared ScienceRESTORE NYC INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesRESTORE NY…WOMENSHELTER OF LONG BEACH: $50,000 · Human ServicesWOMENSHELT…Children Today Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesChildren T…TREVOR PROJECT INC: $70,000 · Civil RightsLONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $46,773 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $40,000 · EnvironmentBrain Rehabilitation and Injury Network: $39,000 · Public Benefit
Other$748,270Education$260,000Human Services$120,000Civil Rights$70,000Arts & Culture$56,773Environment$40,000Public Benefit$39,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEROES AMONG US INC: $75,000 over 7y, 79% of budgetLong Beach BLAST Better Learning for All Students Today: $70,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSTEVEN M PEREZ FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetRESTORE NYC INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWOMENSHELTER OF LONG BEACH: $50,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $46,773 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBrain Rehabilitation and Injury Network: $39,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetShared Science: $30,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetKOCE-TV FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChildren Today Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS SAILING FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAN DIEGO YACHT CLUB SAILING FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetGUIDANCE CENTER OF WESTCHESTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTICHENOR ORTHOPEDIC CLINIC FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Bess J Hodges Foundat…Earl B & Loraine H Mi…California Community …The Rudolph J & Daphn…Long Beach Community …The Crail-Johnson Fou…Long Beach Rotary Cha…The Gordon and Ruth D…The Josephine S Gumbi…Orange County Communi…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…
Bess J Hodges FoundationCA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bess J Hodges Foundation · Earl B & Loraine H Miller Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Rudolph J & Daphne a Munzer Foundation · Long Beach Community Foundation · The Crail-Johnson Foundation · Long Beach Rotary Charitable Found · The Gordon and Ruth Dougherty Foundation · The Josephine S Gumbiner Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 37 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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