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The Baker Family Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Georgetown University | $2,500,000 |
| Mass General Hospital | $1,000,000 |
| Trinity Washington University | $50,000 |
| Heritage Museums & Gardens | $50,000 |
| Palm Beach Symphony | $15,000 |
| Campaign for Catholic School | $10,000 |
| The Joey Fund | $10,000 |
| Oyster Harbors Club Employee Scholarship Fund | $10,000 |
| Esplanade Association | $10,000 |
| Cape Cod Healthcare | $10,000 |
| THE SOCIETY FOR THE FOUR ARTS | $10,000 |
| NAMI Cape Cod | $5,150 |
| Barnstable Clean Water Coalition | $5,000 |
| CROSSROADS | $5,000 |
| Reach Beyond Domestic Violence | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $14M · revenue +47%- TRTHE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION5× · 2017–2021 · $500k · revenue +24%
- TCTRINITY COLLEGE6× · 2017–2024 · $251k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- MCMGH Cancer Center for Illumination Arts Programone grant, 2017 · $250k
- HCHOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +103%
- HEHealth Equity Fundone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
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.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Reservations and the most unlike its peers is Three Bays Preservation Inc. 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 47 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 12% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 66 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 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THREE BAYS PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI CAPE COD 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 · Eastern Bank Foundation · James M Stoneman Charitable Fund · O'Donnell Family Charitable Trust Joseph Matzkin Esq Trustee · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Fidelity Foundation · The Davis Family Foundation · Donald C McGraw Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Trust 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.
- Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc — 53% of income from government
- Three Bays Preservation Inc — 18% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Housing Assistance Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum — 0% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hope Community Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 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.
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