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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 FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$7.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

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13
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16
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12
’23
9
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28
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$53MRecreation & Sports$6.0MHealth$5.1MArts & Culture$2.9MReligion$1.9MFood & Nutrition$425kEnvironment$400kPhilanthropy$260kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+7 grants · $11M
$100,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$88M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Stanford University$7,928,334
Collegiate School Inc$1,725,000
Center For Hearing & Speech$421,150
Hillel The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life$400,000
Carbon Containment Lab$400,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer$333,333
Center for Hearing and Communication$283,838
Shed Nyc Inc$233,333
Camp Ramah in the Poconos$175,000
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America$125,000
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School Ltd$100,000
Mechon Hadar$100,000
Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies North America$100,000
Moishe House$100,000
Hebrew College$100,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Hebrew College: $100k → 8%Reconstructionist Rabbinical College: $50k → 7%Camp Ramah in the Poconos: $175k → 13%Camp Ramah: $250k → 22%Stanford University: $11.0M → 8%Moishe House: $100k → 11%Camp Erutan: $10k → 12%American Jewish University: $50k → 14%NYU Langone Hospitals: $467k → 17%Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School Ltd: $100k → 28%Center For Hearing & Speech: $421k → 11%Carbon Containment Lab: $400k → 12%Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion: $50k → 16%Northwestern University: $1.0M → 14%Camp Ramah: $136k → 22%Stanford University: $7.9M → 8%NYU Langone Hospitals: $100k → 17%Northwestern University: $1.0M → 14%Stanford University: $1.6M → 8%City Harvest Inc: $50k → 17%Family Equality: $30k → 17%Hillel The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life: $400k → 14%Donorschooseorg: $25k → 17%New York Stage and Film Company Inc: $10k → 17%The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America: $125k → 17%UJA Federation of New York: $50k → 17%Jewish Theological Seminary of America: $50k → 17%SHED NYC: $667k → 17%Shed Nyc Inc: $233k → 17%Foundation for Jewish Camp Inc: $50k → 17%Jewish Funders Network: $30k → 17%Lismore Road Inc: $20k → 17%Mechon Hadar: $100k → 17%Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies North America: $100k → 17%Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer: $333k → 17%Rethink Food USA Inc: $75k → 17%Park Avenue Synagogue: $276k → 17%Park Avenue Synagogue: $236k → 17%Park Avenue Synagogue: $54k → 17%Collegiate School Inc: $1.7M → 17%Collegiate School: $135k → 17%Collegiate School: $85k → 17%Citymeals on Wheels: $50k → 17%Center for Hearing & Communication: $1.1M → 17%Center for Hearing & Communication: $399k → 17%Center for Hearing and Communication: $284k → 17%Rethink Food NYC Inc: $100k → 17%Rethink Food NYC Inc: $50k → 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
OH
PA
CT
CA
MO
DC
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24M · 22 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
19

Total granted

$24M
$953k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+3%

Still filing today

73%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationFood & NutritionInternationalRecreation & SportsReligionArts & CultureOther
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

  • COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $6.8M · revenue +64%
  • Northwestern University
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +33%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION
    3× · 2020–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • HF
    Hillel Foundation for Jewish Campus
    one grant, 2024 · $350k
  • TA
    TARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -58%
  • TC
    THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +15%
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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
3
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
4
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
5
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
6
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
7
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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8
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
9
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
10
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
11
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Jewish University; the most unlike its peers is Camp Erutan. 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

40 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. 40 of the 59 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
25/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $45,870,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $6,789,600 · EducationCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC+11 more: $1,048,500 · EducationCENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION: $1,782,688 · OtherCENTER FOR HE…YALE UNIVERSITY: $1,355,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSI…Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer: $1,099,999 · OtherMemorial Sloa…Center For Hearing & Speech: $1,068,400 · OtherCenter For He…CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH: $571,150 · OtherCENTER FOR HE…PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INC: $566,000 · OtherPARK AVENUE S…Camp Ramah: $386,000 · OtherHillel Foundation for Jewish Campus: $350,000 · OtherCARBON CONTAINMENT LAB INC: $400,000 · Other+22 more: $1,207,500 · Other+22 moreNorthwestern University: $5,115,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS: $525,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsSHED NYC INC: $2,900,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $55,100 · Arts & CultureNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $566,667 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · HealthHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $400,000 · ReligionMOISHE HOUSE: $100,000 · ReligionTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · ReligionRETHINK FOOD NYC INC: $250,000 · Food & NutritionRETHINK FOOD USA INC: $75,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $50,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$53,708,100Other$8,786,737Recreation & Sports$5,650,000Arts & Culture$2,955,100Health$576,667Religion$520,000Food & Nutrition$425,000

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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $45,870,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $6,789,600 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetNorthwestern University: $5,115,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHED NYC INC: $2,900,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetCENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION: $1,782,688 over 3y, 16% of budgetCENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH: $571,150 over 2y, 94% of budgetNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $566,667 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN THE POCONOS: $525,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $400,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNew York University: $362,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRETHINK FOOD NYC INC: $250,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $230,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY EQUALITY: $130,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetHEBREW COLLEGE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $46,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLISMORE ROAD INC: $45,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC: $10,100 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Bridge Golf Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCAMP ERUTAN: $10,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetLUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Community Fede…National Philanthropi…The New York Communit…The J Baker Foundatio…The Shapiro Pogrebin …Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Federation of …Morgan Stanley Global…Combined Jewish Phila…Vanguard Charitable E…
Jewish Communal FundNY20.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The H & F Baker Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The H & F Baker Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 59 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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