· Private foundation
Barnes Charitable 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $29k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JDRFBREAKTHROUGH T1D | $54,000 |
| MISSION REALTY | $5,000 |
| ISIAH HOUSE | $3,000 |
| HEART OF TEXAS FCA | $3,000 |
| ANTIOCH CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS FOR LIFE | $3,000 |
| MENTORING ALLIANCE | $3,000 |
| TRI-CITY MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| SOUTH BOSQUE ELEMENTARY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $750 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH LORENA | $500 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +30% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC3× · 2020–2023 · $12k · revenue +278%
CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA3× · 2018–2023 · $9k · revenue +30%
ISAIAH 117 HOUSE2× · 2021–2022 · $6k · revenue +142%
Funded once
- JDJuvenille Diabetes Reserch Foundationone grant, 2017 · $57k
- JDJuvenile Diabetes Research Foundatione grant, 2018 · $33k
- JDJUVENILLE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDone grant, 2023 · $32k
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.
Meals on Wheels of Odessa enables people to live with dignity by offering community support and sustenance through coordinated services and enable older adults to live in their own homes safely and independently as long as they are able.
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.
To nourish and enrich the lives of the homebound and other people in need through programs that promote dignity and independent living.
Meals on wheels waco nourishes the bodies, minds, and spirits of older adults in the heart of texas through meals, transportation, activities, and volunteer support.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
Empowers older and disabled adults to live independentlly in thier own homes by providing nutritious home-delivered meals, safety checks, socialization, and community connection, which result in an enhanced quality of life and purpose as…
To provide services which focus on nourishing lives, enabling independence and caring for the most frail and isolated residents in the greater san antonio region.
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
Lone Star CASA elevates the voices of children in Kaufman and Rockwall County who have experienced abuse and neglect by providing trained volunteer advocates to work alongside children and families so they can achieve safety and stability…
Christain Home
The Muleshoe Meals on Wheels purpose is to engage in all activities necessary, useful, or expedient, through operative measures and active organizations, to promote and further the interests of the Senior citizens of the area. The purpose…
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 46 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 MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CENTER OF WEST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Northwood Elementary PTA ↗
- Who funds MENTORING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds PERMIAN BASIN REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BOSQUE ELEMENTARY PTA PTA TEXAS CONGRESS ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS GIFTS OF HOPE INC ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Barnes Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barnes Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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