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The Baker Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$262k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$567kArts & Culture$395kHealth$232kRecreation & Sports$182kHuman Services$108kYouth Development$102kPhilanthropy$94kScience & Tech$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $156k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $106k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$35,000
TACOMA LITTLE THEATER$25,000
LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL$16,000
PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
NORTHWEST FURNITURE BANK$10,000
STADIUM HIGH SCHOOL$8,000
HENRY FOSS HIGH SCHOOL$8,000
MOUNT TAHOMA HIGH SCHOOL$8,000
PENINSULA HIGH SCHOOL$8,000
GIG HARBOR HIGH SCHOOL$8,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND$7,500
MUSEUM OF GLASS$7,500
GREENTRIKE$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE & KITSAP COUNTIES: $5k → 9%NORTHWEST FURNITURE BANK: $10k → 9%NORTHWEST FURNITURE BANK: $10k → 9%NORTHWEST FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 9%NORTHWEST FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 9%NORTHWEST FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 50 repeat orgs$245k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against -10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
21

Total granted

$1.7M
$200k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
-10%

Still filing today

56%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SH
    STADIUM HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $64k · revenue +725% · 25% of their budget
  • G
    GREENTRIKE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $61k · revenue +116%
  • GM
    Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation
    6× · 2017–2022 · $54k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • PF
    PARTNERS FOR PARKSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +174%
  • FO
    Friends of Lakewood
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -31%
  • ASHLEY HOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +139%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
2
Artist Trust

Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.

Arts & Culture
3
Seattle Architectural Foundation

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Center for Contemporary Art & Culture

To enliven and expand the understanding of craft and the museum experience for all.

Arts & Culture
5
Greater Tacoma Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
6
The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound

To grow a lasting culture of generosity and well-being in the South Puget Sound through connection, leadership, and investment.

Philanthropy
7
Northwest Film Forum

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,…

Arts & Culture
8
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Washington Filmworks

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…

Community Improvement
10
Siff

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.

Youth Development
11
Center for Wooden Boats

The Center for Wooden Boats promotes Northwest Maritime Heritage through education, interpretation and hands-on experience in building, maintaining and using historic small craft.

Recreation & Sports
12
Photo Center Nw

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tacoma Arts Live; 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.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 78 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/46
Grantees still filing
23/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PENINSULA HIGH SCHOOL: $64,000 · OtherGIG HARBOR HIGH SCHOOL: $64,000 · OtherSeattle Public Schools: $64,000 · OtherHENRY FOSS HIGH SCHOOL: $64,000 · OtherSTADIUM HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS: $64,000 · OtherMOUNT TAHOMA HIGH SCHOOL: $58,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND: $57,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $55,000 · OtherGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation: $53,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $52,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $47,500 · OtherMARY BRIDGE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $45,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $45,000 · OtherJOB CARR MUSEUM: $42,000 · OtherREACH MINISTRIES: $42,500 · Other+34 more: $422,166 · Other+34 moreGREENTRIKE: $61,000 · Arts & CultureGREENTRIKECENTRUM FOUNDATION: $47,500 · Arts & CultureCENTRUM FOUNDATI…PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC SCIENCE …Museum of Glass: $42,500 · Arts & CultureMuseum of GlassTACOMA ARTS LIVE: $35,000 · Arts & CultureTACOMA ARTS LIVEFOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT: $20,000 · Arts & CultureFOSS WATERWAY SE…Tacoma Art Museum: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $19,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE: $40,000 · EducationR MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP: $40,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $25,000 · EducationTOY RESCUE MISSION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY: $25,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyGIG HARBOR BOATSHOP: $19,060 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,500 · PhilanthropyCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $28,000 · HealthASHLEY HOUSE: $25,000 · HealthDIABETES ASSOC OF PIERCE COUNTY: $22,000 · HealthFoundation for Healthy Generations: $5,000 · HealthPARTNERS FOR PARKS: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsFIRST TEE OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND: $21,500 · Recreation & SportsPEACE COMMUNITY CENTER: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsNW FURNITURE BANK: $35,000 · Human ServicesTacoma Community House: $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$1,241,166Arts & Culture$280,000Education$105,000Philanthropy$96,560Health$80,000Recreation & Sports$66,500Human Services$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTADIUM HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS: $64,000 over 8y, 25% of budgetGREENTRIKE: $61,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation: $53,500 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetCENTRUM FOUNDATION: $47,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetREACH MINISTRIES: $42,500 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetMuseum of Glass: $42,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE: $40,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetR MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP: $40,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetLINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN: $35,116 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTACOMA ARTS LIVE: $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNW FURNITURE BANK: $35,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTOY RESCUE MISSION: $30,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY: $29,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $28,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS FOR PARKS: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFriends of Lakewood: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetASHLEY HOUSE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetZEE SPEED: $25,000 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetDIABETES ASSOC OF PIERCE COUNTY: $22,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON: $21,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFIRST TEE OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND: $21,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPEACE COMMUNITY CENTER: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT: $20,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIG HARBOR BOATSHOP: $19,060 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetLiving Voices: $10,250 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPierce Center for Arts and Technology DBA ARIVVA: $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTacoma Art Museum: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTacoma Community House: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON EDUCATION & SQUASH ACADEMY FORMERLY SEATTLE URBAN SQUASH: $7,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLEMAY-AMERICAS CAR MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANITIES WASHINGTON: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGRAND TACOMA CINE CLUB DBA THE GRAND CINEMA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRebuilding Hope Sexual Assault Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHELPING HAND HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIG HARBOR PENINSULA HISTORICAL SOC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFoundation for Healthy Generations: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARTSFUND: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNourish Pierce County: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInnovative Change Makers: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
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 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 HILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE ↗
  • Who funds R MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP ↗
  • Who funds LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds TACOMA ARTS LIVE ↗
  • Who funds NW FURNITURE BANK ↗
  • Who funds TOY RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS FOR PARKS ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Lakewood ↗
  • Who funds ASHLEY HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ZEE SPEED ↗
  • Who funds DIABETES ASSOC OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds FIRST TEE OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND ↗

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.

Fuchsg & M Fdn TaiThe Bamford FoundationGreater Tacoma Commun…The Norcliffe Foundat…Kilworth Florence Cha…Ben B Cheney Foundati…Forest FoundationGary E Milgard Family…M J Murdock Charitabl…The Dimmer Family Fou…Heidner Marco J Char …Woodworth Family Foun…
Fuchsg & M Fdn TaiMN63.7× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Baker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Baker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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