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The Edward D Baker Foundation at a glance

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The Edward D Baker Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$248kScience & Tech$174kEducation$98kEnvironment$46kAnimals$45kPhilanthropy$6k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$31k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM$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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 27% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE: $60k → 10%LICK-WILMERDING HIGH SCHOOL: $12k → 10%FRIENDS OF SCIENCE MUSEUMS INC: $5k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM: $15k → 17%Mathematical Association of America: $500 → 14%GREENWARD INC: $4k → 23%Cheetah Conservation Fund: $25k → 9%BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE: $35k → 10%MAKE THE FUTURE THE CAMPAIGN FOR LICK-WILMERDING HIGH SCHOOL: $12k → 10%CARAVEN ARTS: $38k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM: $12k → 17%BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE: $30k → 10%MAKE THE FUTURE THE CAMPAIGN FOR LICK-WILMERDING HIGH SCHOOL: $12k → 10%Scripps College: $5k → 14%American Friends of the British Museum: $10k → 17%Berkeley Repertory Theatre: $25k → 10%MAKE THE FUTURE THE CAMPAIGN FOR LICK-WILMERDING HIGH SCHOOL: $12k → 10%CARAVEN ARTS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM: $4k → 17%BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE: $7k → 10%San Francisco Ballet: $15k → 10%BLUE PLANET UNITED: $2k → 14%THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY LONDON: $4k → 17%BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE: $5k → 10%San Francisco Zoological Society: $20k → 10%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 17%Mathematical Sciences Research Institute: $60k → 10%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $20k → 17%MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $45k → 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM: $6k → 17%MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $43k → 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM: $5k → 17%MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $25k → 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM: $4k → 17%CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $4k → 17%CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 17%ROYAL ACADEMY AMERICA: $2k → 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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$479k · 5 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
11

Total granted

$479k
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
-9%

Still filing today

80%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsScience & TechInternationalOther
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

  • SL
    SIMONS LAUFER MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $173k · revenue +22%
  • BR
    BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE
    6× · 2017–2023 · $162k · revenue +8%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • Cheetah Conservation Fundgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +147%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -9%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +37%
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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
3
California Academy of Sciences

The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…

Arts & Culture
4
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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5
Smithsonian Institution

*increase and diffusion of knowledge* is the mission set forth by james smithson. the smithsonian endeavors to shape the future by preserving our heritage, discovering new knowledge, and sharing our resources with the world.

Arts & Culture
6
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.

Arts & Culture
7
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
8
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
9
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
10
American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Founded in 1780, the american academy of arts and sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together "to…

Social Science
11
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
12
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Zoological Society; the most unlike its peers is Blue Planet United. 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

15 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. 15 of the 18 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE: $162,000 · Arts & CultureBERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRESAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION+2 more: $7,100 · Arts & CultureSIMONS LAUFER MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE: $173,275 · Science & TechSIMONS LAUFER MATHEMATICAL SCIE…CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ARTS: $48,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA SCHOOL …THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $45,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF CO…Scripps College: $5,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY LONDON INC: $3,500 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM INC: $55,300 · InternationalAMERICAN F…CARAVEN ARTS: $40,000 · OtherCARAVEN A…ST John's Smith Square: $4,978 · OtherST John's…GREENWARD INC: $4,000 · OtherGREENWARD…+2 more: $2,000 · OtherCheetah Conservation Fund: $25,000 · AnimalsSAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $20,000 · AnimalsCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$184,100Science & Tech$173,275Education$101,500International$55,300Other$50,978Animals$45,000Philanthropy$6,000

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 budgetSIMONS LAUFER MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE: $173,275 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE: $162,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM INC: $55,300 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ARTS: $48,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCheetah Conservation Fund: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF SCIENCE MUSEUMS INC: $5,100 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetScripps College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoyal Academy America Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE PLANET UNITED: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $500 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 18 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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