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Barnes Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$402k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$379k
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Recreation & Sports$389kReligion$248kHuman Services$152kYouth Development$146kArts & Culture$118kFood & Nutrition$40kPhilanthropy$18kCommunity Improvement$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $250k+1 grant · $379k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$584k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EVANS MEMORIAL CAMP$379,122
COASTAL PLAIN AREA ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AUTHORITY$15,000
CAM LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC$7,000
THE ENAY FOUNDATION INC$640
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $119k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CAMP ROCK OF GEORGIA: $56k → 15%CALLED TO CARE INC: $55k → 17%CALLED TO CARE INC: $4k → 17%CAMP ROCK OF GEORGIA: $2k → 15%ACTO OF VALDOSTA INC: $2k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$401k · 11 repeat orgs$763k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
32

Total granted

$401k
$361k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+13%

Still filing today

45%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $401k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • CT
    CALLED TO CARE INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $59k · revenue +9%
  • CR
    CAMP ROCK OF GEORGIA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $58k · revenue +14%
  • BW
    BATTERED WOMENS SHELTER INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $11k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • PI
    PHILANTHROFILMS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -46% · 32% of their budget
  • GO
    GIRLS ON THE RUN SOUTH GEORGIAgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $79k · revenue +43% · 35% of their budget
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BROOKS COUNTY
    one grant, 2022 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Dougherty County Casa Inc

Dougherty County CASA, Inc. supports children who have experienced abuse or neglect by providing specially trained community volunteers to advocate for their best interests -- promoting their safety, stability, and permanent connections to…

Civil Rights
2
Children's Advocacy Centers of Georgia Inc

To promote, assist and support the development, growth & continuation of children's advocacy centers in the state of Georgia.

Crime & Legal
3
Together Georgia Provider Alliance Inc

Together Georgia Provider Alliance, Inc. supports vulnerable children and families by strengthening agencies that serve them. Together Georgia Provider Alliance, Inc. (TG), a not-for-profit organization, is a statewide membership…

4
Casa of Southwest Georgia Inc

Provide advocates for abused children

Civil Rights
5
Georgia Center for Child Advocacy Inc

The Georgia center for child advocacy's mission is to champion the needs of sexually and severely physically abused children through prevention, intervention, therapy, and collaboration.

Human Services
6
Carroll County Child Advocacy Center Inc

The Carroll County Child Advocacy Center exists to champion the needs of sexually, physically, and emotionally abused children in Carroll, Haralson and Heard counties through prevention, intervention and collaboration.

7
Georgia Youth Sports Alliance Inc
8
Glynn County Heart Association Inc
9
Georgia Health Initiative Inc
Philanthropy
10
Fragile X Association of Georgia Inc
11
Girls On the Run of Coastal Georgia

Missions: We inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.The Girls on the Run curricula, the heart of the program, provides pre-adolescent girls with the…

12
Kids Restart Inc

Provide services to children in the foster system

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coastal Plain Area Eoa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Down Syndrome Association of South Georgia 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 14 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number30%5%<5yr17%23%5–10yr20%32%10–20yr14%18%20–35yr10%14%35–55yr9%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value30%2%<5yr17%14%5–10yr20%74%10–20yr14%5%20–35yr10%3%35–55yr9%2%55yr+

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 21% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
21%
3,959/18,943

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.

04the grantee network

25 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 46 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
14/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JESUS AND JAM OF CLINCH COUNTY INC — $125,663 · OtherJESUS AND JAM OF CLINCH COUNTY INCLIVING BRIDGES MINISTRIES — $88,680 · OtherLIVING BRIDGES MINISTRIESBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BROOKS COUNTY — $50,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BROOKS COUNTYNORTHBRIDGE CHURCH — $18,353 · OtherTHE ENAY FOUNDATION INC — $17,640 · OtherLowndes County Historical Society Inc — $15,000 · Other+29 more — $116,830 · Other+29 moreEVANS MEMORIAL CAMP INC — $379,122 · Recreation & SportsEVANS MEMORIAL CAMP INCCALLED TO CARE INC — $58,589 · Human ServicesCALLED TO C…CAMP ROCK OF GEORGIA INC — $58,062 · Human ServicesCAMP ROCK O…+1 more — $2,000 · Human ServicesPHILANTHROFILMS INC — $100,000 · Arts & CulturePHILANTHRO…+1 more — $3,068 · Arts & CultureGIRLS ON THE RUN SOUTH GEORGIA — $78,936 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON …BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF VALDOSTA INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GI…Girls Place Inc — $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls Pla…GEORGIA ORGANICS INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentCOASTAL PLAIN AREA EOA INC — $15,000 · Community Improvement
Other$432,166Recreation & Sports$379,122Human Services$118,651Arts & Culture$103,068Youth Development$95,936Environment$20,000Community Improvement$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPHILANTHROFILMS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN SOUTH GEORGIA — $78,936 over 1y, 35% of budgetCALLED TO CARE INC — $58,589 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetCAMP ROCK OF GEORGIA INC — $58,062 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetGEORGIA ORGANICS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLowndes County Historical Society Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetCOASTAL PLAIN AREA EOA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBATTERED WOMENS SHELTER INC — $11,340 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SILVERTON FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF VALDOSTA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHUNGRY AT HOME INC — $10,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetGirls Place Inc — $7,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF LOWNDES CO INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetElder Care of Alachua County Inc — $4,217 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetELDERHEART INC — $3,068 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGeorgia Asthma Coalition Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetACTO of Valdosta Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetEmory University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH GEORGIA INC — $900 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHANG TOUGH FOUNDATION INC — $380 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIFT ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $380 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetValdosta Junior Service League — $270 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBREAD OF THE MIGHTY FOOD BANK INC — $263 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Georgia Power Foundation IncGA22.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Harley Langdale Jr Foundation Inc · Greater Valdosta United Way Inc · Second Harvest of South Georgia Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    6report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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