How much does Barker Family Foundation give?

Barker Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $52,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Barker Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (71%), Arts & Culture (8%), Health (5%).

Who are Barker Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Chicago ($110k), Loyola High School of Los Angeles ($108k), Duke University ($36k).

Does Barker Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Barker Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Barker Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Thomas & Dorothy Leavey Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation.

Where is Barker Family Foundation based?

Barker Family Foundation is based in CA.

Barker Family Foundation

Barker Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Barker Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$52k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$36k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$304kArts & Culture$35kHealth$22kMembership Benefit$15kHuman Services$13kPhilanthropy$12kReligion$7kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0

02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k13 grants · $16k
$10k–50k1 grant · $36k

$1,500

Median grant

States reached

$838k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DUKE UNIVERSITY	$36,000
LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL OF LOS ANGELES	$2,000
LANGFORD AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$2,000
FALNES CEMETERY FUND	$2,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA	$2,000
CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION	$1,500
NATIONAL CHARITY LEAGUE LOS ANGELES	$1,500
THE EBELL OF LOS ANGELES	$1,000
DAUGHTERS OF MARY AND JOSEPH	$1,000
OUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER	$1,000
ALEXANDRIA HOUSE	$500
JOHN TRACY CENTER	$500
STUDENTS RUN LA	$500
CULVER PALMS MEALS ON WHEELS	$500

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 (FY17–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$360k · 30 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$360k

$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+21%

Still filing today

60%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

University of Chicago
4× · 2021–2024 · $110k · revenue +34%
AC
AMERICAN CORPORATION OF THE ARTS
3× · 2017–2019 · $20k · revenue +16%
EO
EBELL OF LOS ANGELES
7× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +49%

Funded once

SS
SISTER STELLA FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $3k
NC
NATIONAL CHARITY LEAGUE CORONET DEBUTANTE BALLgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +48%
AO
AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION
one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +15%

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.

University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

The Scripps Research Institute

The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…

Health

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech

City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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Los Angeles Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2028

The organization aims to benefit the residents of the united states through the planning, promotion and staging of the xxxiv olympiad and the xviii paralympic games.

Recreation & Sports

Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Toys for Tots Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Ebell of Los Angeles. 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

37 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. 37 of the 58 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)

37/37

Grantees still filing

27/37

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$204,280Education$157,000Arts & Culture$34,287Health$9,530Philanthropy$8,650Human Services$8,100Youth Development$4,000

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.

California Community FoundationCA14.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Thomas & Dorothy Leavey Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good

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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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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