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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.

$43k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$64kEnvironment$49kEducation$40kArts & Culture$28kFood & Nutrition$24kPhilanthropy$19kHuman Services$17kPublic Benefit$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$323k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CIVICURE$2,000
IMPACT 100 EAST BAY$2,000
PROSPECT MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION$1,800
BENNINGTON COLLEGE$1,500
SHAFTBURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO$1,200
HUBBARD HALL PROJECTS$1,000
YOUNG CENTER$1,000
JOHN G MCCULLOUGH FREE LIBRARY$1,000
BORDERLESS MAGAZINE$1,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HELP A MOTHER OUT: $500 → 10%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $1k → 17%ENVISION UNLIMITED: $10k → 14%ENVISION UNLIMITED: $7k → 14%MEAL ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION: $500 → 9%ENVISION UNLIMITED: $6k → 14%WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $2k → 9%ENVISION UNLIMITED: $5k → 14%ENVISION UNLIMITED: $3k → 14%ENVISION UNLIMITED: $3k → 14%ENVISION UNLIMITED: $3k → 14%ALAMEDA COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $1k → 10%ENVISION UNLIMITED: $1k → 14%UNITED CHILDRENS SERVICES OF BENNINGTON COUNTY: $1k → 11%CARE FOR REAL: $2k → 14%ALAMEDA COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $500 → 10%YOUNG CENTER: $1k → 14%YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $1k → 14%YOUNG CENTER: $1k → 14%YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $500 → 14%YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $3k → 14%YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $1k → 14%YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $1k → 14%SUNRISE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $500 → 11%COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS: $2k → 14%PROJECT AGAINST VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS: $500 → 11%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

VT
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
DC
LA
AL
TX
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$205k · 36 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
66

Total granted

$205k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+18%

Still filing today

92%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureInternationalEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • EU
    Envision Unlimited
    8× · 2018–2025 · $38k · revenue +261%
  • BC
    BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +47%
  • ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    6× · 2017–2022 · $9k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • CA
    CIVIC AND CULTURAL RESTORATION CORPORATION
    one grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue -22%
  • TP
    THE PERSISTENCE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +333%
  • AL
    Access Living of Metropolitan Chicagograduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +55%
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
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

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,…

Employment
2
Common Future

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…

Community Improvement
3
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
4
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
5
Transformca dba Transform

Transform works to ensure that people of all incomes thrive in a world safe from climate chaos.

Community Improvement
6
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

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7
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
8
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
9
Equal Justice Society

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…

Civil Rights
10
Fund for Justice

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…

Crime & Legal
11
Pangea Legal Services

Pangea's mission is to provide deportation defense services, advocate for policy change, and provide education and legal empowerment for our immigrant communities.

Crime & Legal
12
Oregon Justice Network

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

95 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. 95 of the 115 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)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
95/95
Grantees still filing
65/95
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CIVICURE: $16,500 · OtherCIVICUREALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $8,500 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANKCROSSROADS FUND INC: $7,000 · OtherCROSSROADS FUND INCOAK LEYDEN DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC: $6,500 · OtherOAK LEYDEN DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INCWomens Cancer Resource Center: $6,250 · OtherAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago: $5,000 · OtherCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $5,000 · Other+60 more: $63,950 · Other+60 moreEnvision Unlimited: $37,500 · Human ServicesEnvision UnlimitedTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $8,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR…+10 more: $10,300 · Human Services+10 moreBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $13,500 · EducationBENNINGTON COL…DISABILITY LEAD: $6,500 · EducationDISABILITY LEA…Bennington Early Childhood Center Inc: $5,750 · EducationBennington Ear…SURGE INSTITUTE: $3,500 · EducationSURGE INSTITUT…WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $3,500 · EducationWORKING AMERIC…PROTEUS FUND INC: $2,000 · EducationVERMONT ARTS EXCHANGE INC: $1,700 · EducationRURAL EDUCATION ACTION PROJECT: $1,500 · EducationJohn G McCullough Free Library Inc: $1,500 · Education+3 more: $1,750 · EducationLiving Tree Alliance Inc: $36,800 · ReligionLiving Tree Al…CHILDREN RISING INC: $1,500 · Religion+1 more: $500 · ReligionCIVIC AND CULTURAL RESTORATION CORPORATION: $13,699 · Arts & CultureCIVIC AND…Better Bennington Corporation: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBetter Be…CHICAGO YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO Y…Borderless Magazine NFP: $2,000 · Arts & CultureBorderles…HUBBARD HALL PROJECTS INC: $1,200 · Arts & CultureVIDEO VERACITY INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $1,550 · Arts & Culture+3 moreImpact 100 East Bay Inc: $8,000 · PhilanthropyEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,500 · PhilanthropySTRIVE FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION: $1,150 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY: $550 · Philanthropy+2 more: $750 · PhilanthropyTHE PERSISTENCE FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · EnvironmentPlanting Justice: $5,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $1,000 · EnvironmentVERMONT WILDERNESS SCHOOL: $1,000 · Environment+2 more: $950 · Environment
Other$118,700Human Services$55,800Education$41,200Religion$38,800Arts & Culture$26,449Philanthropy$15,950Environment$15,450

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 budgetEnvision Unlimited: $37,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLiving Tree Alliance Inc: $36,800 over 4y, 24% of budgetCIVIC AND CULTURAL RESTORATION CORPORATION: $13,699 over 1y, 10% of budgetBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $8,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetImpact 100 East Bay Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE PERSISTENCE FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCROSSROADS FUND INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDISABILITY LEAD: $6,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOAK LEYDEN DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWomens Cancer Resource Center: $6,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBennington Early Childhood Center Inc: $5,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBetter Bennington Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSURGE INSTITUTE: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROSPECT MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION INC: $2,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER BENNINGTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSEX WORKERS OUTREACH PROJECT: $2,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLFORWARD: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBorderless Magazine NFP: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDENTISTS ON WHEELS: $1,750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVERMONT ARTS EXCHANGE INC: $1,700 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN RISING INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCARE FOR REAL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO COMMUNITY BOND FUND: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT PARKS FOREVER INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRURAL EDUCATION ACTION PROJECT: $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASYLUM SEEKERS PROJECT INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUSTICE AT LAST INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJohn G McCullough Free Library Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE PONY EXPRESS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR NORTH BENNINGTON INC: $1,350 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF BENNINGTON COUNTY INC: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUBBARD HALL PROJECTS INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTRIVE FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION: $1,150 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 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.

The Vermont Community…East Bay Community Fo…The San Francisco Fou…Impact 100 East Bay I…Bernard E & Alba Witk…Silicon Valley Commun…The California Wellne…The Chicago Community…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…John D and Catherine …Dean and Margaret Les…Lowell Berry Foundati…
The Vermont Community FoundationVT29× affinity14 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Barr Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barr Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Barr Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Barr Charitable Trust 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 115 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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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home