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Barfield Family Private Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$212k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

International$712kHuman Services$372kReligion$338kPublic Benefit$104kHealth$90kFood & Nutrition$64kPublic Safety & Disaster$55kEducation$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
$6,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EGBE MEDICAL MISSION INC$80,000
HEALTH EDUCATION AND LITERACY PROVIDERS INC$50,000
SMITHFIELD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$10,000
OUR DAILY BREAD$7,500
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH-SAN SABA$6,500
MEALS ON WHEELS$6,500
COOK CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$6,500
ALDERSGATE ENRICHMENT CENTER$6,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$6,500
SHRINERS HOSPITAL$6,500
RANCH HANDS RESCUE$6,000
TARRANT AREA FOOD BANK$4,500
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH-LOGANSPORT$4,500
HARMONY RIDGE CEMETARY TRUST$3,500
Individual grant recipient$3,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HAPPY HILL FARM: $5k → 10%HAPPY HILL FARM: $3k → 10%HAPPY HILL FARM: $2k → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $7k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $7k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $7k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $4k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $2k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $1k → 11%THE CLUBHOUSE FOR SPECIAL NEEDS: $3k → 11%THE CLUBHOUSE FOR SPECIAL NEEDS: $2k → 11%THE CLUBHOUSE FOR SPECIAL NEEDS: $1k → 11%THE CLUBHOUSE FOR SPECIAL NEEDS: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MI
IN
CA
CO
TN
NC
OK
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 35 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
34

Total granted

$1.8M
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+20%

Still filing today

43%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalOther

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

  • HE
    HEALTH EDUCATION AND LITERACY PROVIDERS INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $490k · revenue +80% · 40% of their budget
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    2× · 2018–2024 · $102k · revenue +163%
  • RM
    RBC MINISTRIES
    8× · 2018–2025 · $84k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • NC
    NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • MB
    MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $7k
  • CO
    CATHEDRAL OF FAITH
    one grant, 2019 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Hendrick Home for Children
2
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.

Human Services
3
Spring Branch Community Health Center

To increase the number of healthy families in our community by providing high quality, comprehensive health services.

Health
4
Christ's Hospital
5
Covenant House Texas

Covenant house texas shelters, protects, and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, and sexually exploited youth.

Human Services
6
Shepherd's House Ministries

To grow disciples of jesus christ by ministering to and serving those in need while sharing god's hope, faith, and love, bringing them to a place of restoration and empowering them to become productive members of our society.

Housing & Shelter
7
Good Samaritan Mission Inc

To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.

8
Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas

The mission of Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas is to perform sacred work by uniting kindness, quality, and healing through the provision of health care services to the community.

Health
9
House of Mercy
Human Services
10
HealthTexas Provider Network

To deliver the highest value patient experience through quality, safety, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness, enhanced by medical education and research in collaboration with Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
11
Lamb S House Ltd

Ministry that turns men from addiction to Jesus Christ by daily engaging them in spiritual, physical and financial guidance and goals

12
Miracles From Heaven
International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children and the most unlike its peers is Help Save Humans 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealthcare Foundations and …Emergency Assistance & Food…Pet Rescue and AdoptionFamily Crisis & Recovery Se…Christian Missionary Organi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 44 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%4%<5yr17%4%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr9%35%35–55yr13%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%21%<5yr17%0%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr9%41%35–55yr13%26%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 21% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 4% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%1/28
the rest of the field
17%
4,847/29,062

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.

04the grantee network

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 70 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BANYAN AIR SERVICES — $306,107 · OtherBANYAN AIR SERVICESCITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS — $89,400 · OtherCITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLSSMITHFIELD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $87,500 · OtherSMITHFIELD UNITED METHODIST CHURCHFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH-SAN SABA — $40,750 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS — $38,500 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH-LOGANSPORT — $30,250 · Other+51 more — $271,209 · Other+51 moreHEALTH EDUCATION AND LITERACY PROVIDERS INC — $490,000 · ReligionHEALTH EDUCATION AND LITERACY PROVIDERS INCSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $102,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSERBC MINISTRIES — $83,500 · ReligionRBC MINISTRIESALDERSGATE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC — $48,000 · ReligionALDERSGATE ENRICHMENT CENTER INCEGBE MEDICAL MISSION INC — $120,000 · InternationalSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $43,500 · HealthCook Children's Medical Center — $38,500 · Health+1 more — $100 · HealthMEALS ON WHEELS — $35,750 · Human ServicesHAPPY HILL FARM CHILDRENS HOME INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesThe Clubhouse for Special NeedsInc — $6,750 · Human ServicesRanch Hands Rescue — $15,000 · AnimalsSAN SABA COUNTY FRIENDS OF ANIMALS — $2,000 · Animals
Other$863,716Religion$723,500International$120,000Health$82,100Human Services$52,500Animals$17,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHEALTH EDUCATION AND LITERACY PROVIDERS INC — $490,000 over 8y, 40% of budgetEGBE MEDICAL MISSION INC — $120,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $102,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRBC MINISTRIES — $83,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetALDERSGATE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC — $48,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $43,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCook Children's Medical Center — $38,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS — $35,750 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank — $28,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRanch Hands Rescue — $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHEPHERDS STOREHOUSE — $14,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $11,474 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAPPY HILL FARM CHILDRENS HOME INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHELP SAVE HUMANS INC — $9,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetThe Clubhouse for Special NeedsInc — $6,750 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetI CAN STILL SHINE INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE LADDER ALLIANCE — $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 HEALTH EDUCATION AND LITERACY PROVIDERS INC
  • Who funds EGBE MEDICAL MISSION INC
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds RBC MINISTRIES
  • Who funds ALDERSGATE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds Cook Children's Medical Center
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS
  • Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank
  • Who funds Ranch Hands Rescue
  • Who funds THE SHEPHERDS STOREHOUSE
  • Who funds ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds HAPPY HILL FARM CHILDRENS HOME INC
  • Who funds HELP SAVE HUMANS INC
  • Who funds The Clubhouse for Special NeedsInc
  • Who funds I CAN STILL SHINE INC
  • Who funds THE LADDER ALLIANCE

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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX15× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Barfield Family Private 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Barfield Family Private Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Barfield Family Private 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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