· Private foundation
Barn Road 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $236k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $450k
- $250k+1 grant · $611k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Schwab Charitable | $611,000 |
| Center for Reproductive Rights | $100,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Norcal | $100,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast | $50,000 |
| International Rescue Committee | $50,000 |
| De Young Art Meuseum | $50,000 |
| Yale University | $50,000 |
| Brigid Alliance | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| SF MOMA | $25,500 |
| Jewish Family and Children's Servic | $25,000 |
| Common Sense Media | $25,000 |
| ACT | $25,000 |
| Homeward Bound | $25,000 |
| Mesa Refuge | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $178k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
46 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC6× · 2020–2025 · $450k · revenue +63%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC3× · 2020–2022 · $200k · revenue +21%- MCMercy Corps4× · 2019–2022 · $185k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- PPPlanned Parenthood Federation of Amone grant, 2019 · $200k
- DRDRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -2%
THE BAIL PROJECT INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -85%
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.
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.
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
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.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
How this is measured
66 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. 66 of the 111 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds MESA REFUGE A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds DRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BAIL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds We the People MI ↗
- Who funds Ground Game Fund ↗
- Who funds ACCELERATE CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds EVOLVE502 INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Skystone Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Communities for A New California ↗
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 · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Tides Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Way to Rise · The Springcreek Foundation · The Leonard & Sophie Davis Fund · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Barn Road Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barn Road Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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