How much does Barber Foundation give?

Barber Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $202,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 77 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Barber Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (20%), Human Services (14%), Religion (12%).

Who are Barber Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The West Texas Rehabilitation Center ($104k), Abilene Heritage Square Inc ($100k), Abilene Youth Sports Authority ($86k).

Does Barber Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Barber Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Barber Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dian Graves Owen Foundation, Shelton Family Foundation, Community Foundation of Abilene.

Where is Barber Foundation based?

Barber Foundation is based in TX.

Barber Foundation

Barber Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Barber Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$203k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$38k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$246kHuman Services$175kReligion$149kEducation$148kArts & Culture$123kRecreation & Sports$92kFood & Nutrition$80kPhilanthropy$48kOther$0

02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k28 grants · $75k
$10k–50k8 grants · $128k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$2.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WEST TEXAS REHABILITATION CENT	$37,500
UNITED WAY OF ABILENE	$23,500
ABILENE YOUTH SPORTS AUTHORITY	$15,000
FOOD BANK OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS	$12,000
ABILENE HOPE HAVEN	$10,000
CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER	$10,000
ABILENE RESTORATION MINISTRIES	$10,000
SALVATION ARMY	$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ABILENE	$8,000
PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CARE MISSION	$7,500
FAITHWORKS OF ABILENE	$7,500
MEALS ON WHEELS PLUS INC	$6,000
MENTORING ALLIANCE	$5,000
BREAKFAST ON BEECH STREET INC	$3,000
STRENGTH FOR LIFE	$3,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.2M · 87 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

87 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+17%

Still filing today

70%

85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther

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

TW
The West Texas Rehabilitation Center
8× · 2017–2024 · $104k · revenue +43%
AY
ABILENE YOUTH SPORTS AUTHORITY
5× · 2018–2024 · $86k · revenue +47%
FB
Food Bank of West Central Texas
8× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +47%

Funded once

AC
Abilene Chamber of Commerce Foundation
one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -74%
HM
HENDRICK MEDICAL CENTER FOUND
one grant, 2017 · $10k
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATEDgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +121%

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.

Abilene Christian School Inc

The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.

Education

Abigail's Place

Committed to supporting displaced single mothers in Fort Bend County by providing housing assistance and wraparound services.

Housing & Shelter

Abilene Boys Ranch Foundation

Support operation of Abilene Boys Ranch, Inc.

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West Texas Food Bank

The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…

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Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services

Abilene Industrial Foundation

The mission of the Abilene Industrial Foundation is to promote the growth, development, and diversity of the economy in and around Abilene, Texas.

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Hospice of Wichita Falls Inc

Care, hope, and support for all when illness threatens life.

Human Services

Alamo Area Mutual Housing Association

To provide housing for low to moderate income families and to create a community environment that promotes resident education, self-sufficiency, leadership, and volunteerism

Housing & Shelter

Childrens Advocacy Center of West Texas Inc

The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.

Crime & Legal

Adult Protective Services Partners Inc

Provide support and financial resources to clients of Adult Protective Services, an agency of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services; to raise public awareness of the need for such services; and to advocate on behalf of…

—

Abilene Classical Academy

Education of Children from pre-school through 9th grade

Education

Abilene Chamber of Commerce

The mission of Abilene Chamber of Commerce is to promote the economy and quality of life in Abilene, Texas by providing services to local businesses, educational opportunities, promoting Abilene as a travel destination, and promoting…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Homes of Abilene Inc; the most unlike its peers is Saint Francis Ministries. 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

75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 75 of the 103 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

75/75

Grantees still filing

55/75

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$597,665Arts & Culture$170,425Health$164,100Human Services$117,500Youth Development$109,100Food & Nutrition$70,500Education$27,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Dian Graves Owen FoundationTX101.6× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dian Graves Owen Foundation · Shelton Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Abilene · The Legett Foundation · Greathouse Foundation · Kickapoo Springs Foundation · The Karakin Foundation · The Massey Family Charitable Trust · The Robison Excelsior Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Directors Foundation · Moss Adamson Spalding Charities

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 moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Barber Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Barber 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home