· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| bancroft school | $10,000 |
| ITALIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE BLUE HILLS | $10,000 |
| JOSLIN DIABETES CTR | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S SCHOOL OF SCIENCE | $10,000 |
| CURRY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| UNICEF | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSTONEHILL COLLEGE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $76k · revenue +41%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $43k · revenue +95%- FRFALMOUTH ROAD RACE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- MLMILTON LIBRARYone grant, 2022 · $1k
- BCBOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $1k
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INCone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +11%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
28 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. 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 BANCROFT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS SCHOOL OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Baker Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Baker Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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