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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 FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% 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
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$110k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANIMAL SANCTURY OF ST CROIX$10,000
JONTY FOUNDATION$10,000
SISTERS RISING WORLDWIDE$6,000
HILL MUSEUM LIBRARY$4,000
CATHEDRAL OF ST PAUL$2,000
ORDER OF MALTA$1,950
MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,500
SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MN$1,000
YELLOWSTONE FOREVER$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
CATHOLIC SERVICES APPEAL FD$1,000
ASSUMPTION CHURCH$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS$1,000
Individual grant recipient$800
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SISTER RISING WORLDWIDE: $9k → 14%SISTERS RISING WORLDWIDE: $6k → 14%SISTERS RISING WORLDWIDE: $5k → 14%SISTERS RISING WORLDWIDE: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
PA
NE
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$136k · 14 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
12

Total granted

$136k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+17%

Still filing today

71%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SR
    Sisters Rising Worldwide
    4× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +412%
  • MH
    MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +47%
  • WW
    WALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $4k · revenue +882%

Funded once

  • SJ
    SAINT JOHN'S ABBEY
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • GN
    GREAT NORTHERN FILMWORKS
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • GW
    GEORGE WEYERHAEUSER PACIFIC RIM BONSAI COLLECTION
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -7%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
3
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
4
Park Square Theatre

To enrich the community by producing and presenting exceptional live theatre that touches the heart, engages the mind and delights the spirit.

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5
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
6
Smithsonian Institution

*increase and diffusion of knowledge* is the mission set forth by james smithson. the smithsonian endeavors to shape the future by preserving our heritage, discovering new knowledge, and sharing our resources with the world.

Arts & Culture
7
The Great Northern Winter Festival

The great northern celebrates our cold, creative winters through ten days of diverse programming that invigorate mind and body. in an era of changing climate that threatens our signature season, we seek to create community, inspire action,…

Arts & Culture
8
Computer History Museum

Chm decodes technology - its computing past, digital present, and future impact on humanity.

Arts & Culture
9
The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)

Education
10
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
11
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
12
University of Northwestern - St Paul

See schedule o. founded in 1902, university of northwestern - st. paul is a nondenominational christian university that integrates the educational philosophy of "faith, learning and living" through two focuses: higher education and media.…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Sisters Rising Worldwide. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JONTY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherJONTY FOUNDATIONANIMAL SANCTURY OF ST CROIX: $11,000 · OtherANIMAL SANCTURY OF ST CROIXSAINT JOHN'S ABBEY: $10,000 · OtherSAINT JOHN'S ABBEYASSUMPTION CHURCH: $6,000 · OtherASSUMPTION CHURCHGREAT NORTHERN FILMWORKS: $5,000 · OtherGREAT NORTHERN FILMWORKSWALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY: $4,000 · OtherWALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMYHILL MUSEUM LIBRARY: $4,000 · OtherHILL MUSEUM LIBRARY+11 more: $12,550 · Other+11 moreHILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY: $30,000 · EducationHILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARYUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION+2 more: $2,000 · EducationSisters Rising Worldwide: $24,500 · Human ServicesSisters Rising W…MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $7,200 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA …SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $3,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MU…TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIE…VOCALESSENCE: $1,300 · Arts & CultureVOCALESSEN…GEORGE WEYERHAEUSER PACIFIC RIM BONSAI COLLECTION: $1,000 · Arts & CultureGEORGE WEY…ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1,000 · Arts & CultureORDWAY CEN…NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $1,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL C…SOVEREIGN MILITARY HOSPITALLER ORDER OF SAINT JOHN OF JERUSALEM OF RHODES: $3,700 · PhilanthropyYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $1,000 · EnvironmentREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $200 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$72,550Education$52,000Human Services$24,500Arts & Culture$16,500Philanthropy$3,700Environment$1,000Health$1,000Public Safety & Disaster$200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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 Found…The US Charitable Gif…The Hubbard Broadcast…Mightycause Charitabl…Catholic Community Fo…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Xcel Energy FoundationT Rowe Price Program …Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Theresa a & Vincent J Baker Foundation Joseph S Micallef funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Theresa a & Vincent J Baker Foundation Joseph S Micallef. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Theresa a & Vincent J Baker Foundation Joseph S Micallef 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.

    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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