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Barr Charitable Trust
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 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ENVISION UNLIMITED | $10,000 |
| PLANTING JUSTICE | $5,000 |
| LIVING TREE ALLIANCE | $4,500 |
| EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| DISABILITY LEAD | $2,500 |
| BENNINGTON EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER | $2,150 |
| IMPACT 100 EAST BAY | $2,000 |
| CIVICURE | $2,000 |
| PROSPECT MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION | $1,800 |
| BENNINGTON COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| SHAFTBURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO | $1,200 |
| BORDERLESS MAGAZINE | $1,000 |
| HUBBARD HALL PROJECTS | $1,000 |
| YOUNG CENTER | $1,000 |
| JOHN G MCCULLOUGH FREE LIBRARY | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 7 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- EUEnvision Unlimited8× · 2018–2025 · $38k · revenue +261%
- BCBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION6× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +47%
ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK6× · 2017–2022 · $9k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- CACIVIC AND CULTURAL RESTORATION CORPORATIONone grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue -8%
- TPTHE PERSISTENCE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue -10%
- BBBetter Bennington Corporationone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +16%
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.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Transform works to ensure that people of all incomes thrive in a world safe from climate chaos.
Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The Equal Justice Society (EJS) is transforming the nations consciousness on racethrough law, social science, and the arts. EJS works to dismantle structural andinstitutional racism to advance robust equal protection under the Fourteenth…
Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…
Pangea's mission is to provide deportation defense services, advocate for policy change, and provide education and legal empowerment for our immigrant communities.
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Persistence Foundation Inc. 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 30 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) — 1% 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.
95 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. 95 of the 115 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 Envision Unlimited ↗
- Who funds Living Tree Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds CIVIC AND CULTURAL RESTORATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Impact 100 East Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PERSISTENCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OAK LEYDEN DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY LEAD ↗
- Who funds Womens Cancer Resource Center ↗
- Who funds Bennington Early Childhood Center Inc ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Better Bennington Corporation ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds Planting Justice ↗
- Who funds Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds SURGE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BENNINGTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SEX WORKERS OUTREACH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GIRLFORWARD ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS ↗
- Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Borderless Magazine NFP ↗
- Who funds DENTISTS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds VERMONT ARTS EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds RURAL EDUCATION ACTION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds John G McCullough Free Library 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: The Vermont Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Impact 100 East Bay Inc · Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation · Lowell Berry Foundation
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 Barr Charitable Trust 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.
- Project Against Violent Encounters — 100% of income from government
- Sunrise Family Resource Center Inc — 46% of income from government
- Peace and Justice Center — 41% of income from government
- Bennington Early Childhood Center Inc — 36% of income from government
- Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont — 31% of income from government
- Better Bennington Corporation — 24% of income from government
- Vermont Parks Forever Inc — 8% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Bike Hub — 3% of income from government
- Prospect Mountain Association Inc — 3% of income from government
- Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 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.
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