· Private foundation
Barnum May (Dec D)
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $250
- $50k–250k2 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRILLIUM FAMILY SERVICES | $152,294 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL CHILDREN TRUST | $77,722 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
TRILLIUM FAMILY SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $848k · revenue +45%- TSTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN5× · 2017–2021 · $393k · revenue -14%
- SHSHRINERS HOSPITAL CHILDREN TRUST2× · 2023–2025 · $222k
Funded once
- SHSHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN TRUSTone grant, 2022 · $84k
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue 0%- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGASone grant, 2022 · $250
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.
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Seattle University, an institution of higher education, is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate (continued in schedule o)students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous…
To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and (cont. on sch. o) biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.
The university of portland, an independently governed catholic university guided by the congregation of holy cross, addresses significant questions of human concern through interdisciplinary studies of the arts, sciences, and humanities…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
A diverse sustainable community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship, and practice, pacific inspires students to think, care, and pursue justice in our world
Clu is an institution offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in the liberal arts and sciences.
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)
Since 1890, whitworth has held fast to its founding mission of providing "an education of mind and heart" through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated christian scholars. recognized as one of the top regional colleges and…
Lehigh university strives to earn international prominence as a universty of special distinction and provide students with opportunities for success through its integration of teaching, research and service to society.
How this is measured
6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 14 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Barnum May (Dec D) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barnum May (Dec D). Bigger dots raise more.
- Warner Pacific University: 14% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
- Linfield University: 4% of income from government
- Corban University: 3% of income from government
- Trillium Family Services: 2% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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