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Barnes Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (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 its 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%ACTO OF VALDOSTA INC: $2k → 15%CAMP ROCK OF GEORGIA: $2k → 15%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.
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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
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

  • CT
    CALLED TO CARE INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $59k · revenue +6%
  • 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
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
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…

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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.

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7
Georgia Youth Sports Alliance Inc
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8
Glynn County Heart Association Inc
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9
Georgia Health Initiative Inc
Philanthropy
10
Fragile X Association of Georgia Inc
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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…

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12
Kids Restart Inc

Provide services to children in the foster system

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coastal Plain Area Eoa Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
14/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetHUNGRY AT HOME INC: $10,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetTHE SILVERTON FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF VALDOSTA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 budgetACTO of Valdosta Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGeorgia Asthma Coalition Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEmory University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH GEORGIA INC: $900 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTIFT ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $380 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHANG TOUGH FOUNDATION INC: $380 over 1y, 0.1% 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
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.

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.

Georgia Power Foundat…Harley Langdale Jr Fo…Greater Valdosta Unit…Second Harvest of Sou…Enterprise Holdings F…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barnes Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's 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, 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 46 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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