· Private foundation
The Michael & Nancy 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BETHANY HOUSE SERVICES | $15,296 |
| FOUND VILLAGE | $3,132 |
| ARTS WAVE | $2,500 |
| STEPPING STONES | $2,500 |
| SHELTER HOUSE | $1,500 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK | $1,000 |
| CINCINNATI WORKS | $500 |
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 (FY23–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% 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.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 5 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- SVShelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +19%
- FVFound Village5× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +87%
- LNLITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK3× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- CFCHAIR FORCE 1one grant, 2024 · $3k
- TCThe Christ Hospital Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +192%
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2022 · $500
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.
Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
A social service agency, JFS strengthens lives and our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Services include: Counseling, Case Management, Financial and Food Support, Home Care, Senior Services,…
Empowering women to break the cycles of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio serves and empowers people through God's love in their times of vulnerability. We do so through a full range of local services that engage the community in building solidarity.
Plan, coordinate and provide affordable housing to low-income individuals and families in Southeastern Indiana.
United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
Stabilize neighborhoods through establishing financing, education, rehabilitation of existing housing and development of new housing
FutureHeights seeks to inspire and facilitate collaboration and empowerment across our communities to ensure a vibrant and sustainable future for Cleveland Heights and University Heights.
Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stepping Stones Inc and the most unlike its peers is Found Village. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 17 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 Bethany House Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Shelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc ↗
- Who funds Found Village ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds CHAIR FORCE 1 ↗
- Who funds MILITARY FAMILY ADVISORY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds The Christ Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI WORKS ↗
- Who funds A WAY HOME FOR DOGS 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: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Spaulding Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Hcs Foundation · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Hatton Foundation · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Farmer Family Foundation · Millstone Fund
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 Michael & Nancy 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.