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The Baker Hostetler Foundation at a glance

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The Baker Hostetler Foundation

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.

$185k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$425kCrime & Legal$250kYouth Development$155kPublic Safety & Disaster$70kHuman Services$35kFood & Nutrition$25kCivil Rights$25kSocial Science$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
$5,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION$25,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA$25,000
CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS FOUNDATION$25,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY RISE PROGRAM$25,000
WIDENER UNIVERSITY DELAWARE LAW SCHOOL$10,000
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF LAW$5,000
SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF LAW$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF LAW$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER WASHINGTON$5,000
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL$5,000
SETON HALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY: $10k → 11%WIDENER UNIVERSITY DELAWARE LAW SCHOOL: $10k → 10%BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL: $5k → 8%SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: $5k → 16%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY CHARLES WIDGER SCHOOL OF LAW: $5k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF LAW: $5k → 11%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW: $10k → 22%SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $5k → 10%THE LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10k → 17%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN SCHOOL OF LAW: $5k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $5k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF LAW: $5k → 16%THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%CENTRAL FLORIDA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $5k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW: $5k → 15%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW: $5k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF LAW: $5k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF LAW: $15k → 14%EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $100k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LAW SCHOOL: $5k → 10%MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: $5k → 17%VANDERBILT LAW SCHOOL: $5k → 14%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW: $5k → 15%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $30k → 13%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO ATLANTA: $5k → 14%SIKH AMERICAN VETERANS ALLIANCE: $10k → 4%CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%HARVARD LAW SCHOOL: $10k → 8%SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON: $10k → 16%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (RISE PROGRAM): $25k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA: $25k → 13%GREATER CLEVELAND FISHER HOUSE: $25k → 17%CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (RISE PROGRAM): $25k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA: $25k → 13%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW: $10k → 17%CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY RISE PROGRAM: $25k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA: $25k → 13%CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY RISE PROGRAM: $25k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $25k → 13%SHARE OUR STRENGTH: $25k → 14%CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY: $25k → 14%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10k → 14%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC: $25k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
DE
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$525k · 14 repeat orgs$495k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
38

Total granted

$525k
$415k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-1%

Still filing today

43%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsPublic Safety & DisasterInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    5× · 2020–2025 · $130k · revenue +8%
  • CO
    Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation
    4× · 2022–2025 · $100k · revenue +62%
  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2023 · $35k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -66%
  • GC
    GREATER CLEVELAND FISHER HOUSE
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • SHARE OUR STRENGTH
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -38%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
6
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
9
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
10
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
11
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is Sikh American Veterans Alliance Inc. 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

29 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. 29 of the 64 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
14/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (RISE PROGRAM): $100,000 · OtherGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (RISE PROGRAM)GREATER CLEVELAND FISHER HOUSE: $25,000 · OtherGREATER CLEVELAND FISHER HOUSESHARE OUR STRENGTH: $25,000 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTHTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY MORITZ COLLEGE OF LAW: $25,000 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY MORITZ COLLEGE OF LAWUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA LEVIN COLLEGE OF LAW: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW: $15,000 · OtherHARVARD LAW SCHOOL: $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF LAW: $15,000 · Other+32 more: $195,000 · Other+32 moreChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $100,000 · EducationChildren of Fallen Patriots…CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $35,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVER…SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC: $20,000 · EducationSOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW …Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $20,000 · EducationTemple University - Of The …GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $10,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Education+8 more: $40,000 · Education+8 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $130,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS C…Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $100,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE…ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsASIAN AMERICA…CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10,000 · InternationalGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$435,000Education$250,000Youth Development$135,000Civil Rights$125,000Public Safety & Disaster$50,000International$20,000Philanthropy$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $130,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIKH AMERICAN VETERANS ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarquette University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Suffolk University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Baker Hostetler Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Baker Hostetler Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 64 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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