· Private foundation
The Lenox D and Frances W Baker Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $84k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY HEALTHY WATERS | $49,025 |
| ROWLAND HALL | $15,000 |
| MEETEETSE MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE LINDSEY VONN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| IRONSIDE BIRD RESCUE | $2,000 |
| LUKE BELL MEMORIAL AFFORDABLE COUNSELING | $1,000 |
| EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CARLETON COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| DAVIDSON COLLEGE | $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 (FY17–21, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
22 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- RHROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +81%
- CCCARLETON COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +39%
- PCPARK COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER3× · 2021–2023 · $48k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $25k
- HEHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +112%
- MRMEETEETSE RECREATION CENTERone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
We empower young people to explore and grow their unique intellectual, ethical, and creative capabilities, and to treasure diversity and growth in others.
To unite people to advance wyoming wildlife habitat, research, and education.
To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…
Wyoming seminary inspires students to lead lives of integrity, purpose, and excellence by developing the critical skills and spirit of community necessary to succeed and serve in a global society.
To educate the community as to the significance of their architectural and historic heritage through the preservation, protection, improvement, and restoration of sites and buildings in western new york that are of historic or civic…
Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.
The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of the Old West and the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 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 ROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Meeteetse Museum Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PARK COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BY WESTERN HANDS ↗
- Who funds THE LINDSEY VONN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST WYOMING FAMILY PLANNING INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE OLD WEST ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE ECOLOGY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Intermountain Planned Parenthood ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS RANCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bright Futures Mentoring Program ↗
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: Wyoming Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Lenox D and Frances W Baker Foundation 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.