· Private foundation
The Baker Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $237k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Renaissance Charitable Foundation | $100,000 |
| STONEHILL COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INST | $20,000 |
| Falmouth Road Race | $15,000 |
| Pine Street Inn | $11,500 |
| CHILDREN'S SCHOOL OF SCIENCE | $10,000 |
| UNICEF | $10,000 |
| bancroft school | $10,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $10,000 |
| JOSLIN DIABETES CTR | $10,000 |
| Salvation Army | $10,000 |
| PAN-MASS CHALLENGE | $10,000 |
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE BLUE HILLS | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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.
37 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- SCSTONEHILL COLLEGE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $76k · revenue +41%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $43k · revenue +73%- FRFALMOUTH ROAD RACE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INCone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +11%
- MLMILTON LIBRARYone grant, 2022 · $1k
- BCBOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Whitehead institute forges new frontiers in science, uncovering insights today that unlock the potential of tomorrow. our advances in genetics and genomics are now enabling us to tackle the complexities of life with unprecedented depth and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. 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 52 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 58 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 Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds STONEHILL COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH ROAD RACE INC ↗
- Who funds ITALIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds St Rock Haiti Foundation LTD ↗
- Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CURRY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS SCHOOL OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds BANCROFT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Inc 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.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Italian Home for Children Inc — 29% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Wildlife Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Curry College — 0% of income from government
- Stonehill College Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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.