Texas · Nonprofit
BakerRipley
BakerRipley (Texas) receives grants from 159 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,583,834 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Houston ($78,803,079). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $635M
- Funders on record
- 159
- Grants received
- $171M
- Net assets
- $125M
What BakerRipley does
Mission
BakerRipley's mission is to bring resources, education, and connection to emerging neighborhoods. We work with residents to help them discover the strengths and skills necessary to become productive, self-sufficient individuals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
BakerRipley Public Sector Solutions (includes Workforce Initiatives and Regional Initiatives) operates 12 of the 27 Career Offices along with the Financial Aid Payment Office for the 13 county Gulf Coast Workforce Solutions System and operates the Child Care Services programs for Coastal Bend, Capital Area, East Texas, and Rural Capital workforce regions. Through Workforce Solutions, 59,220 individuals received employment services and 89,311 individuals received financial aid to support their work and training activities throughout 48 Texas counties. The Veterans Services program served 1,254 veterans and their family members. The Utility Assistance and Weatherization programs served 25,713 individuals including the elderly, disabled, and low-income families with young children. (Continued on Schedule O)Neighborhood Tax Centers served 64,801 individuals.
$545,902,416 spentof which $502,076,610 as grants$4,053,758 earned by the program89% of program spendingBakerRipley Choices in Education (includes Head Start and BakerRipley Community Schools) provides opportunities for students (birth to 8th grade) and their parents through an innovative education system that promotes quality, consistency and connection at every juncture of a child's life. Our goal is to ensure that families have access to services that ensure success in the classroom and for the rest of their lives. The Early Head Start/Head Start program provides comprehensive child development in an all-year, full-day format that supports working parents. This program served 7,016 infants through pre-school age children and their 5,310 guardians. The Charter School offers a well-balanced education experience for 2,861 pre-kindergarten through eighth grade children.
$50,273,416 spentof which $2,684 as grants$7,831 earned by the program8% of program spendingBakerRipley Community Based Initiatives (includes Community Initiatives and Economic Initiatives) build on the unique economic and social assets of individuals and their neighborhoods, moving them to self-sufficiency and an improved quality of life. Largely supported by private philanthropic investment, our community and economic-based programs engage and connect individuals to the resources that meet their emerging needs and aspirations. We provide a continuum of services including free tax preparation, family health and education, immigration and citizenship services, small business services, and learning opportunities for neighbors. In 2024, BR served a total of 220,837 individuals. (Continued on Schedule O)More specifically, the adult education programs offered an opportunity for 523 low-income students prepare themselves for the workforce or college through adult basic education, English as a Second Language, and digital literacy courses as well as support services and coaching to improve their persistence and increase their chances of success.
$10,520,346 spentof which $1,011,963 as grants$1,791,821 earned by the program2% of program spendingBakerRipley Health & Wellness (includes Health & Wellness Initiatives) offers programs focused on improving physical health and emotional well-being through senior centers and evidence-based health promotion programs. These holistic programs and services impact health, wellness, engagement and connection, helping older adults to remain physically active, maintain a sense of purpose, engage in meaningful relationships with others, and contribute and give back to help others and the community. In 2024, we served a total of 3,676 individuals.
$3,303,958 spentof which $593,219 as grants$4,390 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $610,000,136.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $138M to $168M (+22%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 93% · 2020 96% · 2021 97% · 2022 96% · 2023 97% · 2024 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of BakerRipley’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (17% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Claudia Aguirre
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 43 funders to 51 funders, grant income fell $27M → $3.9M.
24 of 159 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5.8M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Communities for Good Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BakerRipley raised.
From the IRS filings of BakerRipley’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 159 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BakerRipley leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BakerRipley.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 78% · 2019 86% · 2020 41% · 2021 64% · 2022 58% · 2023 56% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
27% of BakerRipley's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
93% of BakerRipley's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $62M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BakerRipley has grown faster than half of the 248 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 248 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding BakerRipley receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $377.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$335.8M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$34.4M
- Department of the Treasury$3.2M
- Department of Education$1.8M
- Department of Labor$900k
- Department of Homeland Security$796k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BakerRipley
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Daniel and Edith Ripley LLC · disregarded
- NCI Community Fund Inc · exempt
- Communities for Good Fund Inc · exempt
- Promise Ventures Corporation · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BakerRipley: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BakerRipley?
- BakerRipley (Texas) receives grants from 159 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,583,834 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Houston ($78,803,079). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BakerRipley have?
- IRS filings report 159 organizations giving $170,583,834 in grants to BakerRipley, 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BakerRipley?
- United Way of Greater Houston is the largest funder on record, with $78,803,079 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BakerRipley find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 159 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing