· Private foundation
Barnes 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| NC SCHOOL OF SCIENCE & MATH | $250,000 |
| NC MUSEUM OF LIFE & SCIENCE | $100,000 |
| DURHAM ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| CARTERET COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE BROAD STREET CLINIC | $25,000 |
| DURHAM LIONS CLUB | $20,000 |
| JORDAN HIGH SCHOOL FALCONS BAND | $15,000 |
| DUKE BRAIN TUMOR CARE | $10,000 |
| CARTERET COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| ROTARY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THE MARITIME HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $156k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
57 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 4 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
DUKE UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2024 · $325k · revenue +49%- DADURHAM ACADEMY INC6× · 2018–2024 · $290k · revenue +52%
- ACAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI3× · 2021–2023 · $212k · revenue +33%
Funded once
NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +115%- HMHARGRAVE MILITARY ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +41%
- ASAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +201%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
To assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
To support and sustain breakthrough research.
To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.
To accept the transfer of assets from the uncg endowment fund and the affiliated foundations, which benefit the university, and to manage the investment of those assets.
To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.
Our mission is to empower and equip first-generation college students in durham public schools, their families, and educators to become the leaders that will transform our city.
Provide financial support for all types of education and research within the college of sciences at north carolina state university.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Maritime Heritage Foundation of Beaufort Nc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Little World Charity. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 105 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DURHAM ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC ↗
- Who funds BROAD STREET CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARTERET COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARGRAVE MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DURHAM NATIVITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARITIME HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF BEAUFORT NC INC ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES G MARTIN CENTER FOR ACADEMIC RENEWAL ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CARING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DURHAM INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF CARTERET COUNTY ↗
- Who funds The Methodist Home for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds RALLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR PHARMASSIST INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke University · North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke University Health System Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Fox Family Foundation Inc · The Forest At Duke Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Durham Merchants Association Charitable Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Barnes Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.