New York · Private foundation
The H & F Baker Foundation Inc
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.
- $13M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
61% of The H & F Baker Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 28 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,928,334
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 19
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $88M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations The H & F Baker Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $380k 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 | 29 | $5.2M | 59% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $5.1M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $6.1M | 47% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $3.3M | 53% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $4.2M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $2.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collegiate School Inc | $6,789,600 | 5 | 4% |
| Northwestern University | $5,115,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Shed NYC Inc | $2,900,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Center for Hearing and Communication | $1,782,688 | 3 | 16% |
| Yale University | $1,355,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Center for Hearing & Speech | $571,150 | 2 | 94% |
| Nyu Langone Hospitals | $566,667 | 2 | 0% |
| Park Avenue Synagogue Inc | $566,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Camp Ramah in the Poconos | $525,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | $400,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The H & F Baker Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · National Philanthropic Trust · The New York Community Trust · The J Baker Foundation Inc · The Shapiro Pogrebin Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
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About The H & F Baker Foundation Inc
- How much does The H & F Baker Foundation Inc give?
- The H & F Baker Foundation Inc reported 30 grants totaling $13,079,088 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The H & F Baker Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (73%), Recreation & Sports (8%), Health (7%).
- Who are The H & F Baker Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Collegiate School Inc ($6.8M), Northwestern University ($5.1M), Shed NYC Inc ($2.9M).
- Does The H & F Baker Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The H & F Baker Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The H & F Baker Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma.
- Where is The H & F Baker Foundation Inc based?
- The H & F Baker Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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