Illinois · Private foundation
Barney Family Foundation
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.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
53% of Barney Family Foundation’s FY2025 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. FY2025 names 30 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.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $612,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 18
- Total assets, FY2025
- $29M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Barney Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 37 | $958k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $745k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $751k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $569k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $529k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $578k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $755k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $1.0M | 24% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $425,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation | $225,000 | 9 | 1% |
| State Policy Network | $200,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Americans for Prosperity Foundation | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Special Olympics Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Big Shoulders Fund | $135,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Chicago Police Memorial Foundation | $125,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Barney Family Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Barney Family Foundation
- How much does Barney Family Foundation give?
- Barney Family Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $2,020,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Barney Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Philanthropy (28%), Health (18%).
- Who are Barney Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($425k), Samaritan's Purse ($250k), Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc ($250k).
- Does Barney Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Barney Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Barney Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Bailey Family Foundation Inc, Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc.
- Where is Barney Family Foundation based?
- Barney Family Foundation is based in IL.
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