The Baker Street Foundation

• The foundation's stated remit is San Francisco arts organisations, cancer research and environmental causes, and its filing also shows grants for mental health, education and other purposes, so a well-matched request need not sit within those three themes alone.
• Contributions are limited to preselected charitable organisations and the foundation does not accept unsolicited requests, so do not send a cold application unless it has invited you.
• About 8 in 10 of its grants fall between $20,000 and $225,000, and the median grant was $50,000, so a request near that level is typical, although the largest grant was about $1,050,000, so that band is not a ceiling.
• Most of its grant dollars (85%) went to organisations it had funded in the two earlier filings, so existing relationships carry a lot of weight.
• The filing gives no deadlines, so there is no timing to plan around.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• San Francisco Ballet · Operating expenses
  $1,000,0002024 tax year
• San Francisco Park Alliance · Indian basin project
  $625,0002024 tax year
• Brown University · Support mental health initiative
  $500,0002024 tax year
• A Home Within · Operating expenses
  $263,1072024 tax year
• Women's Suffrage National Monument Foundation · Operating expenses
  $250,0002024 tax year
• University of San Francisco · Operating expenses
  $225,0002024 tax year
• University of Colorado Boulder · Operating expenses
  $200,2732024 tax year
• San Francisco-Marin Food Bank · Endowment
  $200,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.