California · Private foundation
The Edward D Baker Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $31k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Edward D Baker Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $8k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $9k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $45k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $60k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $55k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $76k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $142k | 57% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute | $173,275 | 4 | 0% |
| Berkeley Repertory Theatre | $162,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Friends of the British Museum Inc | $55,300 | 7 | 2% |
| California School of Mechanical Arts | $48,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cheetah Conservation Fund | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| San Francisco Zoological Society | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| San Francisco Ballet Association | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Science Museums Inc | $5,100 | 1 | 9% |
| Scripps College | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greenward Inc | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute | $173,275 | 4 | 0% |
| Berkeley Repertory Theatre | $162,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Friends of the British Museum Inc | $55,300 | 7 | 2% |
| California School of Mechanical Arts | $48,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cheetah Conservation Fund | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| San Francisco Zoological Society | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| San Francisco Ballet Association | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Science Museums Inc | $5,100 | 1 | 9% |
| Scripps College | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greenward Inc | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of the National Gallery London Inc | $3,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Royal Academy America Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Blue Planet United | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Mathematical Association of America Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($45k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Edward D Baker Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About The Edward D Baker Foundation
- How much does The Edward D Baker Foundation give?
- The Edward D Baker Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $5,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Edward D Baker Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (40%), Science & Tech (28%), Education (16%).
- Who are The Edward D Baker Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute ($173k), Berkeley Repertory Theatre ($162k), American Friends of the British Museum Inc ($55k).
- Does The Edward D Baker Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Edward D Baker Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Edward D Baker Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Edward D Baker Foundation based?
- The Edward D Baker Foundation is based in CA.
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