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Theresa a & Vincent J Baker Foundation Joseph S Micallef

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.

$44k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
80%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 15
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$110k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 80% of the organizations Theresa a & Vincent J Baker Foundation Joseph S Micallef funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving17$44k41%
FY202315$32k80%
FY20228$31k25%
FY202110$36k50%
FY20207$27kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$60kReligion$26kHuman Services$25kEducation$23kPhilanthropy$20kAnimals$11kHealth$2kEnvironment$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
PA
NE
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of Theresa a & Vincent J Baker Foundation Joseph S Micallef by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library$30,0003n/a
Sisters Rising Worldwide$24,50043%
University of Minnesota Foundation$20,00020%
Minnesota Historical Society$7,20050%
Assumption Church$6,0002n/a
Walker West Music Academy$4,00030%
Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes$3,70020%
Science Museum of Minnesota$3,00030%
The Talmud Torah of St Paul$2,00020%
Twin Cities Public Television Inc$2,00040%
Vocalessence$1,30020%
Yellowstone Forever$1,00010%
University of St Thomas$1,00010%
George Weyerhaeuser Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection$1,00010%
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts$1,00010%
National Constitution Center$1,00010%
Holy Family Hospital of Bethlehem Foundation$1,0001n/a
St Catherine University$1,00010%
World Bicycle Relief Nfp$20010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($60k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Theresa a & Vincent J Baker Foundation Joseph S Micallef supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSisters Rising Worldwide: $24,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetUniversity of Minnesota Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Historical Society: $7,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWalker West Music Academy: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes: $3,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetScience Museum of Minnesota: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Talmud Torah of St Paul: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTwin Cities Public Television Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVocalessence: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYellowstone Forever: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorge Weyerhaeuser Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOrdway Center for the Performing Arts: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Constitution Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Catherine University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Bicycle Relief Nfp: $200 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 16.

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.

The Minneapolis FoundationMN14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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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About Theresa a & Vincent J Baker Foundation Joseph S Micallef

How much does Theresa a & Vincent J Baker Foundation Joseph S Micallef give?
Theresa a & Vincent J Baker Foundation Joseph S Micallef reported 17 grants totaling $44,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Theresa a & Vincent J Baker Foundation Joseph S Micallef fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Religion (12%), Human Services (11%).
Who are Theresa a & Vincent J Baker Foundation Joseph S Micallef's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Hill Museum & Manuscript Library ($30k), Sisters Rising Worldwide ($25k), University of Minnesota Foundation ($20k).
Does Theresa a & Vincent J Baker Foundation Joseph S Micallef fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Theresa a & Vincent J Baker Foundation Joseph S Micallef accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Theresa a & Vincent J Baker Foundation Joseph S Micallef?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, The US Charitable Gift Trust, The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation.
Where is Theresa a & Vincent J Baker Foundation Joseph S Micallef based?
Theresa a & Vincent J Baker Foundation Joseph S Micallef is based in MN.

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 34 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $50k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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