Kentucky · Private foundation
Barr Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $249k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $49,807
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $49,807
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 27
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Barr Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $249k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $250k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $250k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $5.6M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $600k | 4% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $500k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Charles and Elizabeth Barr Foundation | $5,211,295 | 1 | 96% |
| Gilda's Club Kentuckiana Inc | $294,807 | 6 | 2% |
| Creasey Mahan Nature Preserve Inc | $224,807 | 6 | 5% |
| Cabbage Patch Settlement House Inc | $189,807 | 4 | 2% |
| Southeast Christian Church of Jefferson County Kentucky Inc | $150,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Meredith-Dunn School Inc | $134,877 | 6 | 1% |
| Potter's Wheel Inc | $110,000 | 4 | 19% |
| Cave Hill Heritage Foundation | $70,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Second Hope Ministeries Corporation | $55,000 | 2 | 19% |
| White House Retreat | $50,000 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 25 grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($683k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Barr Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Irvin F & Alice S Etscorn Charitable Foundation · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Charles and Elizabeth Barr Foundation · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Gardner Foundation Incorporated
How this is measured
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About Barr Foundation Inc
- How much does Barr Foundation Inc give?
- Barr Foundation Inc reported 6 grants totaling $249,055 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Barr Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (70%), Youth Development (6%), Health (4%).
- Who are Barr Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Charles and Elizabeth Barr Foundation ($5.2M), Gilda's Club Kentuckiana Inc ($295k), Creasey Mahan Nature Preserve Inc ($225k).
- Does Barr Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Barr Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Barr Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, The Gheens Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc.
- Where is Barr Foundation Inc based?
- Barr Foundation Inc is based in KY.
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