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Barber Family Foundation

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.

$43k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
30
Grants FY2025
29
Organizations funded FY2024
24%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$7,200
Organizations funded a year
20 to 29
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
13
Total assets, FY2025
$357k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Barber Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionEducationHealthEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementReligionOther
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
FY2025still arriving29$41k28%
FY202429$33k24%
FY202324$32k25%
FY202227$33k26%
FY202125$33k44%
FY202020$27kn/a
77% 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$29kEducation$27kAnimals$12kHealth$10kEnvironment$10kFood & Nutrition$10kCrime & Legal$9kHousing & Shelter$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
ID
IL
NY
MA
WY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 34 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($89k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Barber Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCornell University: $10,150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of the Lawrenceville School: $8,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVip Community Mental Health Center Inc: $8,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $6,625 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $5,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $5,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Scranton: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Master Chorale Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKeep Bel Air Beautiful: $4,300 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFamily Promise - Greater Phoenix: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $3,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heard Museum: $3,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Fund for Animal Welfare Inc: $3,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mary's Food Bank Alliance: $3,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt John's Health Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Bernard's School Inc: $2,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wilderness Society: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding Westchester Inc: $2,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSnake River Fund: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFood Bank of the Rockies: $1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCitymeals-On-Wheels: $1,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAtlanta Union Mission Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAtlanta Community Food Bank Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAdirondack Camp Scholarship Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFeeding America: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChappaqua School Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNurturing Minds Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $250 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 30.

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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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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How do I get to Barber Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Barber Family Foundation 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.

About Barber Family Foundation

How much does Barber Family Foundation give?
Barber Family Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $43,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 29 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Barber Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (14%), Education (13%), Animals (6%).
Who are Barber Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Cornell University ($10k), The Lucky Penny Inc ($9k), Trustees of the Lawrenceville School ($9k).
Does Barber Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Barber Family Foundation 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 Barber Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Barber Family Foundation based?
Barber Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 60 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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