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The Bakewell Foundation at a glance

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The Bakewell Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$897k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$447k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$4.0MReligion$251kFood & Nutrition$100kEnvironment$60kEducation$51kArts & Culture$1k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
  • $250k+2 grants · $697k
$250,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$446,887
The Mark Foundation$250,000
The V Foundation$200,000
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $50k → 16%CANARY FOUNDATION: $100k → 7%STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL DEVELOPMENT: $100k → 8%DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $560k → 17%CARMELITE MONASTERY: $500 → 12%NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC: $5k → 10%BIOSTLBIOGENERATOR: $100k → 11%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY DIVISION OF ONCOLOGY: $75k → 21%SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE: $60k → 8%SLV MUSEUM: $500 → 17%THE UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL DEVELOPMENT: $100k → 8%DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $500k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC: $5k → 10%The V Foundation: $200k → 8%SLV MUSEUM: $500 → 17%THE UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $100 → 17%DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $500k → 17%DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $447k → 17%DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $419k → 17%DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $350k → 17%DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $350k → 17%DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $263k → 17%The Mark Foundation: $250k → 17%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
NY
MA
WY
OH
CA
CO
MO
NM
NC
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of The Bakewell Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Bakewell Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 4 repeat orgs$887k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +93% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$3.4M
$437k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%
+9%

Still filing today

75%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $450k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • CR
    CANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +154%
  • NH
    NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $9k · revenue +93%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $600 · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • B
    BIOSTLBIOGENERATOR
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • TC
    THE CANARY FUND DBA CANARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -28%
  • WU
    WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY DIVISION OF ONCOLOGY
    one grant, 2018 · $75k
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
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
2
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Stanbridge University Foundation
Education
5
Van Andel Research Institute

Medical research organization van andel research institute is an independent biomedical research organization committed to improving the health and enhancing the lives of current and future generations.

Health
6
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
7
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
8
Martin Foundation for Biomedical Research C/O Andrew Martin
Philanthropy
9
Lsu Research Foundation
Community Improvement
10
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Wt Stanford Foundation
Philanthropy
12
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The V Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Mark Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION: $3,389,228 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATIONTHE V FOUNDATION: $200,000 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATION+1 more: $9,000 · HealthMark Foundation: $250,000 · OtherMark Foundati…BIOSTLBIOGENERATOR: $100,000 · OtherBIOSTLBIOGENE…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY DIVISION OF ONCOLOGY: $75,000 · OtherWASHINGTON UN…MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $50,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS…TRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF P…+3 more: $2,500 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · Education+1 more: $600 · EducationTHE CANARY FUND DBA CANARY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropySOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE: $60,000 · Environment
Health$3,598,228Other$527,500Education$200,600Philanthropy$100,000Environment$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION: $3,389,228 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CANARY FUND DBA CANARY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE: $60,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $600 over 2y, 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 Bakewell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bakewell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 15 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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