· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against +37% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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 &…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 34 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Jerry E Baker Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jerry E Baker Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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