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The Solomon R & Rebecca D Baker Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.6M
Granted FY2018
14
Grants FY2018
14
Organizations funded FY2018
50%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$110,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$2,565,850
Organizations funded a year
10 to 14
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
7
Total assets, FY2018
$193k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 50% of the organizations The Solomon R & Rebecca D Baker Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201814$6.6M50%
FY201710$267kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Health$4.2MPhilanthropy$2.4MHuman Services$120kAnimals$110k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
CA
MD
KS
TN
DC
OK

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Solomon R & Rebecca D Baker Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAutism Speaks Inc: $2,655,850 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Eric H Baker Family Foundation: $2,426,575 over 1y, 81% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $115,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $111,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLange Foundation: $110,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $110,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Wayne Cancer Foundation: $110,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetThe Achievable Foundation: $60,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetGolden Heart Ranch: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOperation Smile Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

California Community FoundationCA13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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How do I get to The Solomon R & Rebecca D Baker Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Solomon R & Rebecca D Baker Foundation 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.

About The Solomon R & Rebecca D Baker Foundation

How much does The Solomon R & Rebecca D Baker Foundation give?
The Solomon R & Rebecca D Baker Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $6,598,457 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does The Solomon R & Rebecca D Baker Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Health (61%), Philanthropy (35%), Human Services (2%).
Who are The Solomon R & Rebecca D Baker Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Autism Speaks Inc ($2.7M), The Eric H Baker Family Foundation ($2.4M), Wounded Warrior Project Inc ($115k).
Does The Solomon R & Rebecca D Baker Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Solomon R & Rebecca D Baker Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Solomon R & Rebecca D Baker Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is The Solomon R & Rebecca D Baker Foundation based?
The Solomon R & Rebecca D Baker Foundation is based in CA.

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 17 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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