· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Heritage Museums & Gardens | $50,000 |
| Trinity Washington University | $50,000 |
| Palm Beach Symphony | $15,000 |
| Oyster Harbors Club Employee Scholarship Fund | $10,000 |
| Esplanade Association | $10,000 |
| Campaign for Catholic School | $10,000 |
| THE SOCIETY FOR THE FOUR ARTS | $10,000 |
| Cape Cod Healthcare | $10,000 |
| The Joey Fund | $10,000 |
| NAMI Cape Cod | $5,150 |
| Reach Beyond Domestic Violence | $5,000 |
| Barnstable Clean Water Coalition | $5,000 |
| CROSSROADS | $5,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +35% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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,…
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 66 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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Baker Family Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Baker Family Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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