· Private foundation
Barr Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CREASEY MAHAN NATURE PRESERVE | $49,807 |
| GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC | $49,807 |
| CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE | $49,807 |
| LINCOLN HERITAGE COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC | $49,757 |
| SECOND HOPE MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| MEREDITH DUNN SCHOOL | $24,877 |
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 (FY22–25, $245k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 72% of Barr Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in KY; read by stated purpose it is 27% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 23 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- GCGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $295k · revenue +16%
- CMCREASEY MAHAN NATURE PRESERVE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $225k · revenue +69%
- CPCABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $190k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHARLES AND ELIZABETH BARR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5.2M · revenue -70% · 96% of their budget
- IBIGLESIA BAUTISTA SENDA DE LUZone grant, 2020 · $25k
- WPWAGS PET THERAPY OF KENTUCKY INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +24%
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.
Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…
Teach students using diverse learning strategies, ignite their potential and inspire academic, personal and social success
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
To form, organize, operate, and support k through 12 charter schools that develop students in mind and character through a classical, content-rich cirriculum that emphasizes the principles of virtuous living, traditional learning, and…
The waldorf school of lexington nurtures each child's curiosity, ingenuity, and love of learning so that they can meet the future with wonder, confidence, and resilience.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
Gilman school is a diverse community dedicated to educating boys in mind, body and spirit through particular emphasis upon academic excellence, athletic participation and aesthetic appreciation. gilman seeks to produce men of character and…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Harvard-westlake strives to be a diverse and inclusive community united by the joyful pursuit of educational excellence, living and learning with integrity, and purpose beyond ourselves.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cabbage Patch Settlement House Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Charles and Elizabeth Barr Foundation. 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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 77% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 33 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 THE CHARLES AND ELIZABETH BARR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CREASEY MAHAN NATURE PRESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MEREDITH-DUNN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds POTTER'S WHEEL INC ↗
- Who funds CAVE HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Second Hope Ministeries Corporation ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN HERITAGE COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds West End School Inc ↗
- Who funds IVY 1879 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HALL INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROBERT MACHEMER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER FIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WAGS PET THERAPY OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds WELLS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE ACADEMY OF MUSIC ↗
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 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
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 Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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