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Barish Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
10%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 27
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$625k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Barish Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EducationPublic BenefitAnimalsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHealthOther
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
FY2024still arriving1$50k100%
FY202310$43k10%
FY202218$49k22%
FY202127$79k11%
FY202025$80k20%
FY201925$67k36%
FY201822$71kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$189kHuman Services$54kRecreation & Sports$50kAnimals$34kArts & Culture$17kInternational$17kEducation$15kReligion$14kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
OH
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
AR
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 28 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($172k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Dumb Friends League: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Independence Fund Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDenver Art Museum: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $9,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson's Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of the Rockies: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute: $5,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGary Sinise Foundation: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Springs Art Museum: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLiving Desert The: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPaws for Purple Hearts: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kempe Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Colorado Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Zoological Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLaradon Hall Society for Exceptional Children and Adults: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInner City Health Center: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Chefs Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDolls for Daughters: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Harry S Truman Library Institute National and International Affairs: $500 over 2y, 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 28.

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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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Barish Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Barish 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 Barish Family Foundation

How much does Barish Family Foundation give?
Barish Family Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Barish Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (43%), Human Services (12%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
Who are Barish Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ($50k), Northwestern University ($50k), Wounded Warrior Project Inc ($30k).
Does Barish Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Barish 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 Barish Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Barish Family Foundation based?
Barish Family Foundation is based in IL.

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 47 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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