· Private foundation
The Jerry E Baker Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $250k+1 grant · $643k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WKU FOUNDATION | $642,541 |
| OPERATION PRIDE | $5,000 |
| AVIATION HERITAGE PARK | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +83% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CHCommonwealth Health Foundation Inc3× · 2018–2021 · $75k · revenue +361%
- OPOPERATION PRIDE INC6× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue ×17
- BGBOWLING GREEN WARREN COUNTY HUMANE2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $25k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BOWLING GREEN AREA INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +52%
- SKSOUTHERN KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS CENTERone grant, 2019 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide exclusively for the benefit, aid, relief, and assistance of the racing personnel employed in connection with horse racing who can demonstrate their need for financial assistance.
To foster, promote and advance the interests and the true spirit of the game of golf throughout the commonwealth of kentucky, and in conjunction therewith to lend its cooperation and assistance to the united states golf association, and to…
Through the framework of the greatest game ever played, the kentucky golf foundation seeks to impact kentucky's youth, military and those of diversity using golf as a toolkit.
George k. bowling community park, inc. was incorporated under the laws of kentucky as a not-for-profit corporation on october 20, 1978 for the charitable purpose of providing a recreational outlet for approximately 14,700 citizens in and…
Charitable civic-improvement corporation established for the benefit of western kentucky university
To engage,educate, and excite everyone about the extraordinary experience that is the kentucky derby!
Preservation kentucky's mission is to build support for and protect kentucky's historic structures and resources.
Acquire and maintain a historically significant structure in scott county, kentucky.
The mission of the kentucky equine humane center, inc (kyehc) is to create second chances for kentucky's equines through care, retraingin, and adoption, while educating the public to ensure every horse thrives.
The bowling green area chamber of commerce focuses its work on four strategic areas to improve the business climate and overall quality of life in south central kentucky: regional economic development, existing business development,…
To maintain a comprehensive enrichment center with assistance to persons working in central kentucky's thoroughbred industry. includes counseling, housing and utility assistance, food and clothing, medical and dental, referral sources &…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vette City Roller Derby Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Commonwealth Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION PRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BOWLING GREEN AREA INC ↗
- Who funds BOWLING GREEN WARREN COUNTY HUMANE ↗
- Who funds AVIATION HERITAGE PARK ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC THEATRE OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds HILLTOPPER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds Vette City Roller Derby Inc ↗
- Who funds LINDSEY WILSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of South Central Kentucky Inc · The John M & Linda J Kelly Family Charitable Foundation · The Harold Juanita David Dennis & Gary Koon Family Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Jerry E Baker Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.