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Barber Foundation at a glance

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Barber Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$170k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$145k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$670kHealth$51kEducation$29kReligion$26kYouth Development$21kFood & Nutrition$10k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $145k
$145,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALPHA WOMEN'S CENTER OF GRAND RAPIDS$145,000
HELP PREGNANCY CRISIS CENTER$25,000
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 (FY18–24, $547k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ALPHA WOMEN'S CENTER OF GRAND RAPIDS: $145k → 11%ALPHA WOMEN'S CENTER OF GRAND RAPIDS: $60k → 11%ALPHA WOMEN'S CENTER OF GRAND RAPIDS: $53k → 11%ALPHA WOMEN'S CENTER OF GRAND RAPIDS: $46k → 11%ALPHA WOMEN'S CENTER OF GRAND RAPIDS: $44k → 11%ALPHA WOMEN'S CENTER OF GRAND RAPIDS: $43k → 11%ALPHA WOMEN'S CENTER OF GRAND RAPIDS: $25k → 11%GRACES TABLE: $40k → 11%GRACES TABLE: $35k → 11%GRACES TABLE: $30k → 11%GRACES TABLE: $15k → 11%GRACES TABLE: $10k → 11%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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$707k · 7 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +125% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$707k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+125%
+29%

Still filing today

86%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • AG
    Alpha Grand Rapids
    7× · 2018–2024 · $417k · revenue +94%
  • GT
    GRACE'S TABLE
    5× · 2018–2022 · $130k · revenue +437%
  • HP
    HELP Pregnancy Crisis Aid Inc
    5× · 2019–2023 · $115k · revenue +283%

Funded once

  • LR
    Leesburg Regional Medical Center Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -66%
  • CO
    CATHEDRAL OF ST ANDREW DIOCESE OF GRAND RAPIDS
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • KF
    KIDS' FOOD BASKET INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +29%
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
Girl Scouts of Utah

Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place.

Youth Development
2
The Birth Center

The birth center dba lifecycle wellness and birth center is an independent non-profit organization and free-standing, out-of-hospital birth center. our team of midwives and nurse-practitioners provide empowering gynecology and…

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3
Life Choice Center

To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…

Health
4
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
5
Grand View University

Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.

Education
6
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
8
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
9
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation

The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…

Health
10
Girls Incorporated of Greater Santa Barbara

The organizations mission is to inspire all girls to be strong,smart, and bold, through research-based, innovative, and educational programs and activities.

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11
Midwives College of Utah

Educate and train midwives to provide safe, professional, affordable and personal maternity and general health care.

Education
12
Girls Inc of Greater Pittsburgh

Girls inc of greater pittsburgh empowers girls to imagine a broader future through a curriculum grounded on female role models delivered by college women mentors, who are themselves mentored by professional women.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls On the Run International Inc; the most unlike its peers is Help Pregnancy Crisis Aid Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 14 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Alpha Grand Rapids: $417,018 · Human ServicesAlpha Grand RapidsGRACE'S TABLE: $130,000 · Human ServicesGRACE'S TABLEHELP Pregnancy Crisis Aid Inc: $115,000 · OtherHELP Pregnancy Crisis Ai…HELP PREGNANCY CRISIS CENTER: $25,000 · OtherHELP PREGNANCY CRISIS CE…CATHEDRAL OF ST ANDREW DIOCESE OF GRAND RAPIDS: $25,000 · OtherCATHEDRAL OF ST ANDREW D…GRAND RAPIDS DREAM CENTER: $8,000 · Other+2 more: $4,700 · OtherLeesburg Regional Medical Center Foundation Inc: $25,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 · HealthDAVENPORT UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationGIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$547,018Other$177,700Health$26,000Education$25,000Youth Development$20,500Food & Nutrition$10,000

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 budgetAlpha Grand Rapids: $417,018 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetGRACE'S TABLE: $130,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetHELP Pregnancy Crisis Aid Inc: $115,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetDAVENPORT UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLeesburg Regional Medical Center Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 2y, 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.

Grand Rapids Communit…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Barber Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barber Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%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
    1get no government money at all
    1report 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.

    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 14 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.

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