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The Baker Family Foundation

Naples, FL · EIN 92-3271916. Reported 33 grants totalling $573,000 to 31 recipients across tax years 2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$12,000median grant
$573,000granted, 2024
31recipients, as named on its returns
$31.4Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Baker Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $12,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $10,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $100,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$5,000 - $10,000
5 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
21 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
6 grants
$100,000 and Up
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
ArtsquestBethlehem, PA$100,000112024
Koresh Dance CompanyPhiladelphia, PA$40,000212024
Big ThoughtDallas, TX$30,000112024
New Horizons of Southwest Florida IncNaples, FL$30,000112024
Florida Repertory Company IncFort Myers, FL$25,000112024
Girl Scouts of Northeast TexasDallas, TX$25,000112024
Texas Ballet Theater IncFort Worth, TX$25,000112024
The Redford CenterSan Francisco, CA$25,000112024
Alonzo King Lines BalletSan Francisco, CA$20,000112024
Cradle of Liberty Council Boy Scouts of AmericaWayne, PA$20,000212024
Out TeachDallas, TX$20,000112024
New Horizons of North TexasSouthlake, TX$18,000112024
Main Line Art CenterHaverford, PA$15,000112024
Tampa Bay Performing Arts CenterTampa, FL$15,000112024
The Florida Orchestra IncSt Petersburg, FL$15,000112024
Greater Easton Development PartnershipEaston, PA$12,000112024
Kellyn FoundationTatamy, PA$12,000112024
Nurture Nature CenterEaston, PA$12,000112024
Rodale InstituteKutztown, PA$12,000112024
St Lukes Hospital Anderson CampusAllentown, PA$12,000112024
Boys and Girls Club of Collier CountyNaples, FL$10,000112024
Ccsa FoundationChester, PA$10,000112024
Florida Council on Economic Education IncTampa, FL$10,000112024
Gladwyne Montessori SchoolGladwyne, PA$10,000112024
Good Shepherd Rehabilitation NetworkAllentown, PA$10,000112024
Grace Place for Children and Families IncNaples, FL$10,000112024
Share Food Program IncPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112024
Community Foundation of Tampa Bay IncTampa, FL$5,000112024
Kidspeace National Centers IncSchnecksville, PA$5,000112024
Pennsylvania Sinfonia OrchestraAllentown, PA$5,000112024
The Community Foundation of Western North CarolinaAsheville, NC$5,000112024

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 28 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Arts & Culture
10 grants
Human Services
3 grants
Youth Development
2 grants
Education
2 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 grants
Community Improvement
2 grants
Food & Nutrition
2 grants
Social Science
1 grant

Already committed for future years

Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. The Baker Family Foundation has 4 of them, worth $275,000. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back.

OrganizationLocationApproved
ArtsquestBethlehem, PA$200,000
Koresh Dance CompanyPhiladelphia, PA$40,000
Alonzo King Lines BalletSan Francisco, CA$20,000
Main Line Art CenterHaverford, PA$15,000

Where its money goes

50% of its giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Pennsylvania
$285K
Florida
$120K
Texas
$118K
California
$45K
North Carolina
$5K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund24 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc21 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc16 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program15 shared recipientsDexter F and Dorothy H Baker15 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust15 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $12,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Pennsylvania.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Baker Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 2 returns (tax years 2023-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 111348, Naples, FL, 34108. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 92-3271916 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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