California · Private foundation
Barlow Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $500k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $190,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Barlow 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; $165k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 7 | $500k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $580k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $389k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $1.8M | 11% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $360k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $385k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $283k | 19% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $121k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Trout Inc | $1,020,250 | 8 | 3% |
| The National Film Preserve Ltd | $1,010,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Wildaid Inc | $265,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Pledge to Humanity | $225,050 | 8 | 73% |
| Sonoma County Vintners Foundation | $220,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Duke University | $200,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation | $195,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Gateway Public Schools | $120,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Posse Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($524k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Barlow Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · United Way of the Bay Area · Hamel Family Foundation Inc · McLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION · Oshay Family Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
About Barlow Family Foundation
- How much does Barlow Family Foundation give?
- Barlow Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $500,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Barlow Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (30%), Arts & Culture (24%), Education (19%).
- Who are Barlow Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: California Trout Inc ($1.0M), The National Film Preserve Ltd ($1.0M), Wildaid Inc ($265k).
- Does Barlow Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Barlow Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Barlow Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Barlow Family Foundation based?
- Barlow Family Foundation is based in CA.
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