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Barbour 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.

$37k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
30
Grants FY2025
28
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$4,020
Organizations funded a year
22 to 28
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
14
Total assets, FY2025
$165k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Barbour Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsReligionFood & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving29$36k10%
FY202428$32k25%
FY202322$20k9%
FY202226$25k23%
FY202127$22k22%
FY202028$22k14%
FY201927$18k15%
FY201824$15k13%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$41kEducation$29kFood & Nutrition$27kArts & Culture$18kHuman Services$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kInternational$14kReligion$14kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IN
OH
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($69k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFeed My Starving Children Inc: $18,490 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWashington University: $17,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetErikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression: $11,750 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $11,550 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Five Museum Foundation Inc: $6,800 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetColorado Friendship Inc: $6,340 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetGirls Love to Fly: $5,750 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetInternational Association of Attunement Practictioners: $5,600 over 9y, 24% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAshland Devo: $5,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetElea Institute: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWinnetka Community House Inc: $4,050 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOakwood Center Inc: $3,900 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetDenver Rescue Mission: $3,700 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRipon College: $3,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Kids Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLawrence Hall: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mary's Food Bank Alliance: $1,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRadio Ambulante Studios Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $1,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Physician Health Program Corporation: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUsona Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Health Defense: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mariemont School Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGrand Circle Foundation Inc: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerica's Mighty Warriors: $880 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Shore Senior Center: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Education Fund: $700 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPublic Broadcasting of Colorado Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTru Community Care: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Institute for Community: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Leonard's Ministries: $200 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 35.

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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.

Ross Family FoundationIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ross Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Colorado Gives Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Barbour Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Barbour 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 Barbour Family Foundation

How much does Barbour Family Foundation give?
Barbour Family Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $36,620 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Barbour Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (19%), Education (13%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
Who are Barbour Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Feed My Starving Children Inc ($18k), Washington University ($17k), Erikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression ($12k).
Does Barbour Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Barbour 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 Barbour Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ross Family Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Colorado Gives Foundation.
Where is Barbour Family Foundation based?
Barbour Family Foundation is based in CO.

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 66 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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