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Barney 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
56% of Barney Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Donors Trust Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 24 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $275k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $500k
- $250k+2 grants · $900k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DONORS TRUST | $500,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $400,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NU FEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $50,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $50,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $50,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $50,000 |
| THE JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| MISERICORDIA - HEART OF MERCY | $50,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
48 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $375k · revenue +145%- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE4× · 2017–2023 · $200k · revenue +134%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2018–2024 · $200k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- TCTreasure Coast Classical Academyone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +2%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +16%- KAKNIGHT ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH CENTER - WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $50k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.
To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Music City Marauders Hockey Assoc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 70 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 HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Donors Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds Americans for Prosperity Foundation ↗
- Who funds STATE POLICY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE RURAL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds Treasure Coast Classical Academy ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds NEADS INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION 300 INC ↗
- Who funds Real Life Children's Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Travis Manion Foundation ↗
- Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds RENEWAL COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds AIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO ↗
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: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Bailey Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Barney Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hope Rural School Inc — 6% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
- Real Life Children's Ranch Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 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.