How much does Barbourtown Foundation give?

Barbourtown Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $37,505 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Barbourtown Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (32%), Arts & Culture (26%), Health (13%).

Who are Barbourtown Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friends of John Jay Homestead ($24k), Hartford Hospital ($23k), Canton Land Conservation Trust Inc ($21k).

Does Barbourtown Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Barbourtown 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 Barbourtown Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Aetna Foundation Inc, The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation.

Where is Barbourtown Foundation based?

Barbourtown Foundation is based in CT.

Barbourtown Foundation

Barbourtown Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$38k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$6k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$94kArts & Culture$75kHealth$39kEducation$28kHuman Services$19kAnimals$11kCommunity Improvement$8kPublic Benefit$8kOther$0

02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500

Median grant

States reached

$527k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
PITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOUNDATION	$2,000
RENBROOK SCHOOL INCORPORATED	$2,000
VNA HOME CARE ALLIANCE INC (FKA FARMINGTON VALLEY VNA)	$2,000
CANTON HISTORICAL MUSEUM (CANTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC)	$1,500
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN	$1,005
ANCIENT BURYING GROUND ASSOCIATION INC	$1,000
WADSWORTH ANTHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART	$1,000
CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED	$1,000
FARMINGTON RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC	$1,000
HOTCHKISS SCHOOL	$1,000

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$257k · 37 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$257k

$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+24%

Still filing today

76%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsPublic BenefitOther

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

HH
Hartford Hospital
5× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +37%
CL
CANTON LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +41%
WP
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY
6× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +116%

Funded once

TS
THE SALVATION ARMY
one grant, 2021 · $4k
MS
MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
one grant, 2020 · $1k
NA
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS
one grant, 2017 · $750 · revenue -50%

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.

Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment

Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition

The Trustees of Reservations

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.

Environment

Eastern National

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.

Recreation & Sports

The Adirondack Council Inc

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…

Environment

Wildlands Trust Inc

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…

Environment

Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment

The Forest Park Conservancy

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…

Environment

University of New Haven

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…

Education

Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

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.

Environment

New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc

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.

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Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation

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.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Plant Trust Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 51 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)

36/36

Grantees still filing

25/36

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$105,725Environment$65,375Arts & Culture$58,350Health$27,400Education$19,400Recreation & Sports$10,250Animals$7,050

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.

Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Barbourtown Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barbourtown Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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.

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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