North Carolina · 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.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2024
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 42
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $20M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 26% of the organizations Barnes Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $335k 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 | 13 | $1.7M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $1.0M | 26% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $1.0M | 45% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $738k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $588k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $522k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $417k | 56% |
| FY2017 | 21 | $223k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics | $750,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Duke University | $325,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Durham Academy Inc | $290,000 | 6 | 0% |
| North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics Foundation | $250,000 | 1 | 5% |
| American Council of Trustees and Alumni | $212,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers Inc | $185,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Broad Street Clinic Foundation | $110,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Carteret Community College Foundation Inc | $105,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Hargrave Military Academy | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Appalachian State University Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Barnes Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
About Barnes Family Foundation
- How much does Barnes Family Foundation give?
- Barnes Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $1,744,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 42 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Barnes Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (60%), Health (10%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Barnes Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics ($750k), Duke University ($325k), Durham Academy Inc ($290k).
- Does Barnes Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Barnes Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Barnes Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Duke University, North Carolina Community Foundation.
- Where is Barnes Family Foundation based?
- Barnes Family Foundation is based in NC.
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