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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 FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.8MHealth$648kHuman Services$506kScience & Tech$370kArts & Culture$193kReligion$185kHousing & Shelter$125kAnimals$75kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
NC SCHOOL OF SCIENCE & MATH$250,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$250,000
NC MUSEUM OF LIFE & SCIENCE$100,000
DURHAM ACADEMY$40,000
THE BROAD STREET CLINIC$25,000
CARTERET COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 8%METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA: $10k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA: $1k → 8%THE BROAD STREET CLINIC: $25k → 12%THE BROAD STREET CLINIC: $25k → 12%THE BROAD STREET CLINIC: $25k → 12%THE BROAD STREET CLINIC: $10k → 12%THE BROAD STREET CLINIC: $10k → 12%THE BROAD STREET CLINIC: $10k → 12%THE BROAD STREET CLINIC: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NJ
CT
UT
VA
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 57 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
43

Total granted

$4.3M
$939k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+43%

Still filing today

54%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $325k · revenue +49%
  • DA
    DURHAM ACADEMY INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $290k · revenue +52%
  • AC
    AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI
    3× · 2021–2023 · $212k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +115%
  • HM
    HARGRAVE MILITARY ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +41%
  • AS
    APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +201%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Unc Health Foundation Inc

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.

Education
2
Carteret County General Hospital Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
3
Research Triangle Regional Partnership

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…

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4
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
5
The Carolina Trust
Philanthropy
6
David H Murdock Research Institute

To support and sustain breakthrough research.

Food & Nutrition
7
North Carolina Museum of Life & Science Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
8
The University of North Carolina At Greensboro Investment Fund Inc

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.

Education
9
North Carolina Medical Society

To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.

—
10
North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law
Crime & Legal
11
Student U

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.

Education
12
North Carolina State University College of Sciences Foundation Inc

Provide financial support for all types of education and research within the college of sciences at north carolina state university.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Maritime Heritage Foundation of Beaufort Nc Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 105 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
43/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 · OtherAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITYNORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS: $750,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICSNC MUSEUM OF LIFE & SCIENCE: $355,000 · OtherNC MUSEUM OF LIFE & SCIENCEUNITED METH RETIREMENT HOME: $265,000 · OtherUNITED METH RETIREMENT HOMENORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS FOUNDATIONTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC: $185,000 · OtherDUKE FERGUSON SCHOOL: $155,000 · Other+67 more: $1,610,716 · Other+67 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY: $325,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYDURHAM ACADEMY INC: $290,000 · EducationDURHAM ACADEMY …HARGRAVE MILITARY ACADEMY: $100,000 · EducationHARGRAVE MILITA…DURHAM NATIVITY SCHOOL INC: $65,000 · EducationDURHAM NATIVITY…WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Education+5 more: $52,000 · Education+5 moreAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI: $212,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MARITIME HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF BEAUFORT NC INC: $51,000 · Arts & CultureJAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $15,500 · Arts & CultureSAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $50,000 · HealthCARING HOUSE INC: $45,000 · HealthSENIOR PHARMASSIST INC: $35,000 · HealthMIRACLEFEET: $20,000 · HealthDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $10,000 · HealthCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthBROAD STREET CLINIC FOUNDATION: $110,000 · Human ServicesThe Methodist Home for Children Inc: $35,000 · Human ServicesThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $11,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE JAMES G MARTIN CENTER FOR ACADEMIC RENEWAL: $50,000 · PhilanthropyRALLY FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyThe Exchange Clubs Child Abuse Prevention Center: $32,000 · Crime & LegalJUSTICEMATTERS INC: $25,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$4,570,716Education$872,000Arts & Culture$328,500Health$170,000Human Services$161,000Philanthropy$105,000Crime & Legal$57,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $325,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDURHAM ACADEMY INC: $290,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI: $212,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC: $185,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBROAD STREET CLINIC FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCARTERET COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetHARGRAVE MILITARY ACADEMY: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDURHAM NATIVITY SCHOOL INC: $65,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE MARITIME HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF BEAUFORT NC INC: $51,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetTHE JAMES G MARTIN CENTER FOR ACADEMIC RENEWAL: $50,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetTHE NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetRESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCARING HOUSE INC: $45,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetWESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF CARTERET COUNTY: $40,000 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DURHAM INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Methodist Home for Children Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR PHARMASSIST INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetRALLY FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Exchange Clubs Child Abuse Prevention Center: $32,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetBRIAN PICCOLO CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $28,466 over 2y, 17% of budgetTHRESHOLD INC: $27,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetJAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFIRST NORTH CAROLINA: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUSTICEMATTERS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDURHAM CENTER FOR SENIOR LIFE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMIRACLEFEET: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDURHAM LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPORCH-Durham: $17,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMILY KRZYZEWSKI CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDURHAM LITERACY CENTER INC: $13,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE WORLD CHARITY: $10,000 over 1y, 61% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MARITIME MUSEUM AT SOUTHPORT: $5,500 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE MISSION OF COASTAL CAROLINA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Southeastern North Carolina Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUNN POLICE ATHL & ACT LEAGUE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 RESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CARING HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF CARTERET COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DURHAM INC ↗
  • Who funds The Methodist Home for Children Inc ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR PHARMASSIST INC ↗
  • Who funds RALLY FOUNDATION 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.

Triangle Community Fo…Duke UniversityNorth Carolina Commun…Duke University Healt…United Way of the Gre…Fox Family Foundation…The Forest At Duke IncDuke Energy FoundationFoundation for the Ca…The Mary Duke Biddle …The Cannon Foundation…Durham Merchants Asso…
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC42.2× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Barnes Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barnes Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 105 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home