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Barrett Family Foundation
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUR LADY OF PEACE | $5,000 |
| ALEXANDRA HOUSE | $3,600 |
| OPEN CUPBOARD | $3,000 |
| EVERY MEAL | $2,000 |
| NEW PATH MENTAL HEALTH | $2,000 |
| VEAP | $2,000 |
| OPTIONS FOR WOMEN EAST | $1,500 |
| CENTENNIAL FOOD SHELF | $1,500 |
| MOVEFORWARD | $1,500 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF ST PAUL | $1,200 |
| YWCA OF MPLS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ST MARY'S HEALTH CLINICS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| AVENUES FOR YOUTH | $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, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 6 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- AHALEXANDRA HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +39%
- OLOUR LADY OF PEACE7× · 2019–2025 · $19k · revenue +76%
- OFOPTIONS FOR WOMEN EAST8× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- CMCHILDREN'S MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $1k
- LOLEGACY OF CARING CAMPAIGNone grant, 2018 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
The Dwelling Place is a Christ-centered ministry providing healing and hope to victims of domestic abuse through supportive services and a safe, transitional place to call home.
Provide education, intervention and advocacy to those affected by relationship abuse with a holistic approach and anti-oppression focus.
Partners for Affordable Housing is missioned to provide shelter for homeless families and individuals and help them secure economically viable long term housing. The Organization owns and operates a number of scattered site housing…
Assisting families in shelters to gain more confidence in building future goals that will lead to success of the entire family.
To honor the dignity, restore hope and create lasting change for homeless and those at risk in the green bay area.
Family Pathways works alongside people to enhance lives through a continuum of essential services and, together with community, champions positive social change.
To end homelessness and relieve hunger through action and advocacy.
See Schedule O.Established in 1895, Missions Inc. Programs is a multi-service non-profit organization with a long history of providing services to those who are most in need, each year offering thousands of people, whose lives have been…
YWCA St. Paul's mission is to eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
Cornerstone disrupts violence through advocacy, support, and prevention. We partner with individuals, families, and organizations to build communities free of harm.
To be a community in which all youth, without regard to their living situation, have an equal opportunity to pursue and achieve their goals and dreams. the agency does this by supporting, resourcing, and empowering young people on their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Missing Grace 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 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 72 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 ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF PEACE ↗
- Who funds OPTIONS FOR WOMEN EAST ↗
- Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
- Who funds AVENUES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds HOPE 4 Youth ↗
- Who funds VEAP Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL CAMP CHERITH ↗
- Who funds Sojourner Project Inc ↗
- Who funds EMMA NORTON SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds Family Promise in Anoka County ↗
- Who funds Cradle of Hope ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA BOAT CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MISSING GRACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PANTHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TUBMAN ↗
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: Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · The Minneapolis Foundation · Allina Health System · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Mightycause Charitable 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 Barrett Family Foundation 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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