· Private foundation
Barney Family Foundation Xxxxxx0889
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRACE CHURCH OF MINNESOTA INC | $5,250 |
| NORTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $4,200 |
| MAGNUM CHORUM | $4,000 |
| American Rivers | $2,750 |
| CAN DO MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS | $2,500 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Sparta | $2,100 |
| MONROE COUNTY LOCAL HISTORY ROOM AND | $1,575 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,575 |
| GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY | $1,575 |
| LA CROSSE AREA FAMILY YMCA | $1,575 |
| Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra | $1,313 |
| SERENITY INNS HOUSE | $1,313 |
| FRIENDS OF THE SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE | $1,313 |
| GATHERING OF SOUTHEAST | $1,313 |
| Training Leaders International | $1,250 |
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 (FY17–25, $7k) 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- FMFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +83%
- MCMAGNUM CHORUM8× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +190%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SPARTA INC5× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- BSBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2023 · $2k
- RCREDEMPTION CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $2k
- LCLA CROSSE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +69%
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.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
We will stirve to make a significant difference in improving the quality of life of our members and the communities we serve by providing affordable access to credit and financial services.
Rooted in christ, southwest minnesota christian schools cultivates the faith and knowledge of students, so they will grow in wisdom through the spirit and bear fruit in the world to the glory of god. (psalm 1:1-3)
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.
Marian university is a catholic applied liberal arts community that welcomes diverse spiritual traditions sponsored by the congregation of sisters of st agnes. marian university engages students in the education of the whole person. we…
Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…
Our mission is to advance the gospel of jesus christ through the next generation by engaging the lost and discipling believers on college campuses.
The minnesota grocers association advances the common interest of those engaged in all aspects of the food industry of mn as a leadership resource. the mga encourages and sponsors educational seminars, conventions and fosters the exchange…
Our vision is for wisconsin to be the model for excellence in equitable school counseling practice, exemplified by the advocacy, leadership, and expertise of the members of the wsca.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Training Leaders International. 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 54 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 43 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 Can Do Multiple Sclerosis ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MAGNUM CHORUM ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SPARTA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SPARTA FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds GATHERING OF SOUTHEAST WI INC ↗
- Who funds La Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WAFER INC ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Training Leaders International ↗
- Who funds LA CROSSE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL HILL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC ↗
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: Otto Bremer Trust · The Pmg Foundation Inc Agy - Uma 1035017881 · La Crosse Community Foundation · Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172 · Xcel Energy Foundation · John & Kathy Reinhart Family Foundation · Sue Anne Gelatt Foundation · Cleary-Kumm Foundation Inc · Alm Charities Inc · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · American Gift 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 Xxxxxx0889 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.
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.