· Private foundation
Barbourtown 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARTFORD HOSPITAL | $6,000 |
| FRIENDS OF JOHN JAY HOMESTEAD | $5,000 |
| CANTON LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC | $4,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY THE (SALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORP) | $4,000 |
| MCLEAN AFFILIATES INC (AKA MCLEAN) | $2,500 |
| RENBROOK SCHOOL INCORPORATED | $2,000 |
| VNA HOME CARE ALLIANCE INC (FKA FARMINGTON VALLEY VNA) | $2,000 |
| PITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CANTON HISTORICAL MUSEUM (CANTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC) | $1,500 |
| NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN | $1,005 |
| CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED | $1,000 |
| ANCIENT BURYING GROUND ASSOCIATION INC | $1,000 |
| FARMINGTON RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC | $1,000 |
| HOTCHKISS SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| WADSWORTH ANTHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- HHHartford Hospital5× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +24%
- CLCANTON LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +41%
- WPWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY6× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2021 · $4k
- MSMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSone grant, 2020 · $1k
- LGLITTLE GUILD OF ST FRANCISone grant, 2017 · $750 · revenue -23%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
To protect and restore the ecological health of forest park and marquam nature park, maintain and enhance their extensive trails networks, promote equitable access, and inspire diverse community appreciation and stewardship of these iconic…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
The mission of the new canaan land trust is to foster a connection between the new canaan community and its natural resources through the conservation and sustainable stewardship of our open space.
Northeast wilderness trust is a regional land trust working to preserve and restore forever-wild landscapes for nature and people in new york, vermont, new hampshire, maine, massachusetts and connecticut.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Plant Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tewecado Trust Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JOHN JAY HOMESTEAD ↗
- Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANTON LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CANTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Ancient Burying Ground Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MCLEAN GAME REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds FARMINGTON RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Tewecado Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds RENBROOK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds KNOX INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOREST & PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLLINSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Barbourtown Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Farmington River Watershed Association Inc — 69% of income from government
- Northwest Conservation District Inc — 30% of income from government
- Connecticut Forest & Park Association — 16% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- Native Plant Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Knox Inc — 2% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.