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The Bakermerine Family Foundation Inc

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.

$51k
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Animals$58kArts & Culture$50kInternational$46kEnvironment$31kHealth$24kHuman Services$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kHousing & Shelter$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$750
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENNEDY CENTER$4,020
SHINE GLOBAL INC$3,575
ROUND HOUSE THEATER$2,608
JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE$2,607
GREENPEACE$2,585
KID MUSEUM$2,550
MONTGOMERY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$2,500
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$1,800
CHEETAH CONSERVATION FUND$1,652
ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND$1,602
SANDY HOOK PROMISE$1,575
SAVE THE CHIMPS$1,537
ASPCA$1,500
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH$1,500
ANNE FRANK HOUSE INC$1,113
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
VA
MD
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$226k · 45 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

45 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
40

Total granted

$226k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+32%

Still filing today

69%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentInternationalEducationOther

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

  • MC
    MONTGOMERY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +145%
  • JG
    JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +59%
  • IG
    ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND
    5× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • RF
    REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +365%
  • LI
    LINCLUSION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +11%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
3
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
4
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
5
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
6
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
7
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
8
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
9
Panthera Corporation

Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.

Animals
10
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
11
Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals
12
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farm Sanctuary Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsChristian Youth CampsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Arts CentersJewish Community Organizati…Local Food System Organizat…Health Access Advocacy and …Cancer Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesPregnancy Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and Shelter
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%36%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%48%35–55yr16%17%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/70
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,495

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.

04the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 96 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/70
Grantees still filing
51/70
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SHINE GLOBAL INC — $38,304 · OtherSHINE GLOBAL INCKENNEDY CENTER — $20,198 · OtherKENNEDY CENTERROUND HOUSE THEATER — $19,494 · OtherROUND HOUSE THEATERGREENPEACE INC — $8,789 · OtherGREENPEACE INCNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL - NRDC — $6,250 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $5,588 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE — $5,000 · OtherSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $5,161 · Other+34 more — $20,368 · Other+34 moreMONTGOMERY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $12,550 · AnimalsMONTGOMERY COUNTY HUMANE…JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $9,710 · AnimalsJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE F…SAVE THE CHIMPS INC — $6,283 · AnimalsSAVE THE CHIMPS INCCheetah Conservation Fund — $5,652 · AnimalsCheetah Conservation Fun…PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC — $5,011 · AnimalsPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL T…THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $2,800 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $2,529 · AnimalsTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $2,515 · Animals+8 more — $6,835 · Animals+8 moreANNE'S PLACE INC — $7,144 · Arts & CultureMOCO KIDSCO INC — $2,550 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureMPT FOUNDATION INC — $1,950 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION — $600 · Arts & Culture+11 more — $1,747 · Arts & CultureBETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD INC — $4,100 · HealthSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $3,000 · HealthSUBURBAN HOSPITAL INC — $2,544 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $2,010 · HealthHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION — $1,065 · HealthFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc — $1,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $814 · HealthNATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION — $532 · Health+1 more — $100 · HealthOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $4,750 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $3,600 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $2,217 · EnvironmentTURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK — $2,035 · EnvironmentOCEANA INC — $1,030 · EnvironmentLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $500 · Environment+1 more — $50 · EnvironmentWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $6,085 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $3,600 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $2,097 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $1,392 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $500 · InternationalISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $9,193 · Human Services
Other$129,152Animals$53,885Arts & Culture$16,491Health$15,165Environment$14,182International$13,674Human Services$9,193

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $12,550 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $9,710 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $9,193 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGREENPEACE INC — $8,789 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANNE'S PLACE INC — $7,144 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSAVE THE CHIMPS INC — $6,283 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $6,085 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCheetah Conservation Fund — $5,652 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $5,161 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC — $5,011 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $4,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD INC — $4,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCity Wildlife Inc — $4,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $3,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $2,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOCO KIDSCO INC — $2,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUBURBAN HOSPITAL INC — $2,544 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $2,529 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $2,515 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $2,217 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $2,097 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK — $2,035 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $2,010 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMPT FOUNDATION INC — $1,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $1,515 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $1,515 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $1,392 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION — $1,065 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $1,030 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOCEANA INC — $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA'S CHARITIES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $814 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOPLAR SPRING ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFJC — $604 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION — $532 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE SOS — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlley Cat Allies Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Washington Co…Galena-Yorktown Found…The Morris and Gwendo…Clark-Winchcole Found…Give Back FoundationGlobal ImpactGeorge Wasserman Fami…The Greene-Milstein F…Nora Roberts Foundati…National Philanthropi…American Express Foun…The Robert Wood Johns…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC21.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Galena-Yorktown Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Give Back Foundation · Global Impact · George Wasserman Family Foundation Inc · The Greene-Milstein Family Foundation Co Monica Touesnard · Nora Roberts Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Express Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson 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 Bakermerine Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Moco Kidsco Inc — 15% of income from government
  • The Strathmore Hall Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Montclair Film Festival Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Adventure Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Suburban Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 96 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

Source object · view filing

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