· Private foundation
The Baker Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k28 grants · $156k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $106k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| TACOMA LITTLE THEATER | $25,000 |
| LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL | $16,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| NORTHWEST FURNITURE BANK | $10,000 |
| PENINSULA HIGH SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| STADIUM HIGH SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| MOUNT TAHOMA HIGH SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| HENRY FOSS HIGH SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| GIG HARBOR HIGH SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| GREENTRIKE | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND | $7,500 |
| JOB CARR MUSEUM | $7,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +14% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 6 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- SHSTADIUM HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS8× · 2017–2024 · $64k · revenue +725% · 25% of their budget
- GGREENTRIKE7× · 2017–2024 · $61k · revenue +116%
- GMGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation6× · 2017–2022 · $54k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTYone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -10%
ASHLEY HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +139%- PCPIERCE COUNTY LIBRARYone 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.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.
The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…
To enliven and expand the understanding of craft and the museum experience for all.
Acting as a catalyst, connector, and knowledge facilitator to build racially equitable, accessible, inclusive pierce county where all people can shape and activate the systems that affect our communities, now and for generations to come.
To grow a lasting culture of generosity and well-being in the South Puget Sound through connection, leadership, and investment.
Northwest Film Forum incites public dialogue and creative action through collective cinematic experiences. A nonprofit film and arts center located in Seattle, Northwest Film Forum presents hundreds of films, festivals, community events,…
Bainbridge island museum of art (bima) inspires curiosity, wonder and understanding by connecting people with the contemporary art and craft of the puget sound region.
To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry. We accomplish this by marketing and managing the state's production incentive program, representing the state in national and…
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
The Center for Wooden Boats promotes Northwest Maritime Heritage through education, interpretation and hands-on experience in building, maintaining and using historic small craft.
Pcnw is a place for everyone to explore the photographic arts. we promote lifelong learning and creativity through resources and programs that inspire and empower.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tacoma Arts Live and the most unlike its peers is Jordan Binion Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 78 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 STADIUM HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds GREENTRIKE ↗
- Who funds Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTRUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REACH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Museum of Glass ↗
- Who funds R MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP ↗
- Who funds HILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE ↗
- Who funds LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NW FURNITURE BANK ↗
- Who funds TACOMA ARTS LIVE ↗
- Who funds TOY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ASHLEY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ZEE SPEED ↗
- Who funds Friends of Lakewood ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR PARKS ↗
- Who funds DIABETES ASSOC OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds FIRST TEE OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND ↗
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: Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · The Bamford Foundation · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc · Forest Foundation · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Dimmer Family Foundation · Heidner Marco J Char Trust · Woodworth Family Foundation
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 Foundation 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.
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.