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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.

$758k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Education$609kHealth$191kReligion$166kHuman Services$90kHousing & Shelter$43kYouth Development$39kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kCommunity Improvement$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $53k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $600k
$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$600,000
HEALING TRANSITIONS$50,000
RALEIGH RESUCE MISSION FOUNDATION$20,000
WAKEMED FOUNDATION$12,500
RALEIGH POLICE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION$10,000
TRANSITIONS LIFECARE$10,000
POWER OF PLAY FOUNDATION$7,000
MISSION TRIANGLE$5,000
TRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES$5,000
ALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY$5,000
REFUGEE HOPE PARTNERS$5,000
TRIAD PREGNANCY CARE$3,000
GREEN CHAIR PROJECT$3,000
THE JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION$2,500
ATHLETICS OF WAKE FOREST$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAFE HAVEN BABY BOXES: $2k → 12%URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY: $2k → 8%REFUGEE HOPE PARTNERS: $5k → 8%REFUGEE HOPE PARTNERS: $5k → 8%WHEELS 4 HOPE: $5k → 8%WHEELS 4 HOPE: $3k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA INC: $20k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA INC: $10k → 8%GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $3k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$400k · 21 repeat orgs$827k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
12

Total granted

$400k
$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
-6%

Still filing today

67%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $621k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCrime & LegalReligionPhilanthropyAnimalsOther

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

  • HEALING TRANSITIONS INC
    3× · 2019–2025 · $120k · revenue +3%
  • TY
    The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +24%
  • HO
    HOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • HM
    HILLYER MEMORIAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $155k
  • BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -36%
  • SAFECHILD
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -6%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Family Promise of Wake County Inc

Moving families at risk of or experiencing homelessness into sustainable, permanent housing in our community through a continuum of support services.

Housing & Shelter
2
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.

Human Services
3
Womens Center of Wake County Inc

The women's center is a multi-service crisis intervention, safety, and stabilization center dedicated to serving and assisting marginalized, at-risk, and homeless women. we work with each woman to break the cycle of trauma, abuse,…

Human Services
4
Carolina Pregnancy Center

We are a crisis pregnancy center offering assistance to all women with pregnancy related issues.

Health
5
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
6
Safe Harbor of Nc Inc

Safe Harbor provides a faith-based community for rebuilding, renewing, and recovery. We work together with volunteers and other nonprofit organizations to provide a wide range of services to those experiencing homelessness, single mothers,…

Health
7
Wnc Lighthouse Inc

The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…

Human Services
8
Triangle Global Health Consortium Inc

The mission of the north carolina global health alliance is to advance north carolina as an international center for research, training, education, advocacy and business dedicated to improving the health of the world's communities. we…

Health
9
Homes of Hope Inc

Provied temporary and emergency and low income housing and secured shelter.

Housing & Shelter
10
The Raleigh Rescue Mission Inc

Believing every individual has sacred value, we equip people to impact the world for good through the love of jesus christ.

Human Services
11
Pro-Choice North Carolina

To support and protect, as a fundamental right and value, a woman's freedom to make personal decisions regarding the full range of reproductive choices.

Health
12
Wilkes Medical Center Foundation

To support and carry out the functions and purposes of wrmc hospital operating corporation (dba atrium health wake forest baptist wilkes medical center) to enhance the delivery of quality health care within the organization's region.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%10%<5yr17%7%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr14%35%20–35yr14%14%35–55yr9%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr17%2%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr14%71%20–35yr14%3%35–55yr9%21%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
16%
1,483/9,567

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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
18/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $600,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY+2 more — $3,500 · EducationHILLYER MEMORIAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — $155,000 · OtherHILLYER MEMORIAL CHRISTIAN CH…WAKEMED FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherWAKEMED FOUNDATIONHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC — $25,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INCTHE SALVATION ARMY — $23,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYTRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES INC — $15,000 · OtherBOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC — $20,000 · OtherBOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC+19 more — $55,100 · Other+19 moreHEALING TRANSITIONS INC — $120,000 · HealthHEALING TRAN…ALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC — $10,000 · HealthALLIANCE MED…RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION FOUNDATION — $40,000 · PhilanthropyTHE POWER OF PLAY CHARITABLE FUND — $15,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $500 · PhilanthropyThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) — $30,000 · Human ServicesRefugee Hope Partners Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesWHEELS4HOPE — $7,500 · Human ServicesTHE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT — $3,000 · Human ServicesURBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC — $2,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,500 · Human ServicesRALEIGH POLICE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Crime & LegalSAFECHILD — $10,000 · Crime & LegalJUSTICEMATTERS INC — $6,500 · Crime & LegalMISSION TRIANGLE INC — $20,500 · ReligionTriad Coalition for Life — $2,500 · ReligionBAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED — $1,000 · Religion
Education$603,500Other$318,600Health$130,000Philanthropy$55,500Human Services$54,000Crime & Legal$41,500Religion$24,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $600,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALING TRANSITIONS INC — $120,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRALEIGH RESCUE MISSION FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRALEIGH POLICE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION TRIANGLE INC — $20,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE POWER OF PLAY CHARITABLE FUND — $15,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRefugee Hope Partners Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAFECHILD — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION INC — $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWHEELS4HOPE — $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJUSTICEMATTERS INC — $6,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA TENNIS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWORLD PEDIATRICS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTriad Coalition for Life — $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHouse of Hope of NC Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WAKE COUNTY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAFE HAVEN BABY BOXES INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTS AND HANDS FOR HAITI — $1,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEEDHAM B BROUGHTON HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCAROLINA COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Triangle Community Fo…North Carolina Commun…Duke Energy FoundationCrossroads Fellowship…Bell Koonce Burnette …Bell Schaefer Family …A E Finley Foundation…W Trent Ragland Jr Fo…John William Pope Fou…United Way of the Gre…William C Ethridge Fo…John & Frances Morise…
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC40× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Crossroads Fellowship Foundation · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · Bell Schaefer Family Foundation · A E Finley Foundation Inc · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · William C Ethridge Foundation Inc · John & Frances Morisey Trust Account

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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    11report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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