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Barnes 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 $10k19 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $87k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHIRLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT 134 | $35,000 |
| EASTER SEALS | $20,000 |
| CHILDRENS ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MARKLUND FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FRANCISCAN COMMUNITY BENEFIT | $8,125 |
| RAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION | $7,500 |
| NOTRE DAME PARISH | $6,000 |
| NAVARRO FARM | $5,000 |
| TRINITY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| THE BRIDGE TEEN CENTER | $5,000 |
| ENDO COLLECTIVE | $5,000 |
| MONTINI-SAN MIGUEL SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $4,000 |
| FISH HOSPITALITY PANTRIES | $4,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $2,100 |
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 (FY17–24, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 10 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k 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
- RGRAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES6× · 2019–2024 · $73k · revenue +23%
- TSTRINITY SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +89%
- JSJENNIFER S FALLICK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- LRLa Rabida Children's Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +34%
- AOArchdiocese of Blantyre Malawione grant, 2017 · $5k
- ESEASTER SEALS OF JOLIET REGION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +76%
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.
Provides the community necessary medical care through specialty physicians.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
SRAlab is dedicated to providing the best patient outcomes through the highest-quality clinical care, translational research, scientific discovery and education.
Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
Our mission: to lead our communities to well-being, one person at a time. this mission is carried out by serving the people of a multi-county service area in reference to their current and future needs for health care services. our major…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
The hospital is a catholic health care organization sponsored by the sisters of st. casimir. by our commitment to witness to the healing mission of jesus, we contribute to healthy communities and promote quality health care to all with…
Easterseals crossroads purpose is to change the way the world defines and views disability by making profound and positive differences in people's lives every day.
To improve and protect the health and welfare of the community in accordance with our mission, the mission of rockford health physicians is "exceptional health care services with a passion for making lives better." the foundation of this…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…
Edward Hospital follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals of Joliet Region Inc and the most unlike its peers is Endo Collective Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 49 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 EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds RAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ↗
- Who funds TRINITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JENNIFER S FALLICK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ENDO COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Franciscan Community Benefit Services ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE TEEN CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY PANTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds La Rabida Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS OF JOLIET REGION INC ↗
- Who funds NAVARRO FARM INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY RIVER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR HEARING AND SPEECH RESOURCES ↗
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: United Way of Will County · The Coleman Foundation Inc · The Dupage Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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.
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