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Barnstone 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.

$497k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$655kHuman Services$458kEducation$373kHousing & Shelter$198kFood & Nutrition$164kInternational$157kCrime & Legal$153kEnvironment$147kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $465k
$20,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$7.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA COLABORATIVA INC$45,000
BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM$45,000
EDEN REFORESTATION PROJECTS$40,000
ACTIVE MINDS$40,000
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$30,000
MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST$30,000
GOOD WORKS INC$27,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
CONVOY OF HOPE$25,000
MAYO CLINIC$25,000
THE SUPPORT CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCATES$25,000
CB COMMUNITY SCHOOLS$25,000
CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK$20,000
FOSTERING HOPE GRANT AWARD$16,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
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 (FY20–25, $309k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $55k → 16%BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $50k → 16%SHOES THAT FIT: $20k → 14%BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $45k → 16%BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $32k → 16%BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $25k → 16%LA COLABORATIVA INC: $45k → 16%PREPARED TO THRIVE: $5k → 6%WINGS FOR SUCCESS: $15k → 6%WINGS FOR SUCCESS: $12k → 6%WINGS FOR SUCCESS: $5k → 6%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MN
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
HI
GA
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 41 repeat orgs$306k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
24

Total granted

$2.1M
$227k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+7%

Still filing today

73%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationInternationalFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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

  • BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $207k · revenue +54%
  • GW
    GOOD WORKS INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $192k · revenue +78%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $128k · revenue +159%

Funded once

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue -40%
  • HC
    HAWAIIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $23k
  • ST
    SHOES THAT FITgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +29%
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
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
2
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
4
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
5
Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health
6
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
9
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
10
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
11
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health
12
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Philadelphia Museum of Art. 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

56 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. 56 of the 74 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/56
Grantees still filing
38/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $122,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDOVE INC: $113,000 · OtherDOVE INCIndividual grant recipient: $64,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMAYO CLINIC: $50,000 · OtherFOSTERING HOPE GRANT AWARD: $41,000 · OtherTHE COLONIAL THEATRE: $40,000 · OtherCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $116,000 · OtherCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANKMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $70,000 · OtherMaine Coast Heritage TrustGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $57,000 · OtherCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $39,000 · Other+34 more: $367,000 · Other+34 moreTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $128,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPI…MAYO CLINIC: $125,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICActive Minds Inc: $110,000 · HealthActive Minds IncVICTORY PROGRAMS INC: $57,000 · HealthVICTORY PROGRAMS INCST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $24,000 · Health+6 more: $59,000 · Health+6 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $223,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE…CB COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $121,600 · EducationCB COMMUNITY SC…MY STUFF BAGS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationMY STUFF BAGS F…+3 more: $18,000 · EducationBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $207,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON HEALT…LA COLABORATIVA INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesLA COLABORAT…Wings for Success Inc: $32,000 · Human ServicesWings for Su…SHOES THAT FIT: $20,000 · Human ServicesSHOES THAT F…+2 more: $6,000 · Human ServicesEDEN PEOPLEPLANET: $150,000 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOPE: $25,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $23,000 · International+2 more: $5,504 · InternationalGOOD WORKS INC: $192,000 · Housing & ShelterSupport Center for Child Advocates: $143,037 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,079,000Health$503,000Education$387,600Human Services$310,000International$203,504Housing & Shelter$192,000Crime & Legal$143,037

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $223,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $207,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD WORKS INC: $192,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetEDEN PEOPLEPLANET: $150,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSupport Center for Child Advocates: $143,037 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $128,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $125,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCB COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $121,600 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $116,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDOVE INC: $113,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetActive Minds Inc: $110,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $70,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVICTORY PROGRAMS INC: $57,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $57,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLA COLABORATIVA INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $39,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWings for Success Inc: $32,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetMY STUFF BAGS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $23,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRENCH AND PICKERING CREEKS CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $23,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHARLESTOWN PLAYHOUSE INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSHOES THAT FIT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARTIES OF NORTHEASTERN PENSYLVANIA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR HUMANISTIC CHANGE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUICIDE PREVENTION & CRISIS SERVICE INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NASSAU COUNTY FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetVILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPHILL SOLTANE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKIMBERTON FIRE COMPANY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPRING OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC: $1,000 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.

Td Charitable Foundat…Hankin FoundationChester County Commun…Analog Devices Founda…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…Verizon FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Network for Good
Td Charitable FoundationME14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Td Charitable Foundation · Hankin Foundation · Chester County Community Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Verizon Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Network for Good

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • New England Forestry Foundation Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Dove Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Victory Programs Inc: 49% of income from government
  • La Colaborativa Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Barnstone Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Barnstone Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 74 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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