· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUR LADY OF PEACE | $5,000 |
| ALEXANDRA HOUSE | $3,600 |
| OPEN CUPBOARD | $3,000 |
| EVERY MEAL | $2,000 |
| VEAP | $2,000 |
| NEW PATH MENTAL HEALTH | $2,000 |
| OPTIONS FOR WOMEN EAST | $1,500 |
| CENTENNIAL FOOD SHELF | $1,500 |
| MOVEFORWARD | $1,500 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF ST PAUL | $1,200 |
| SOJOURNER PROJECT | $1,000 |
| HOPE 4 YOUTH | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| BRITTANY'S PLACE | $1,000 |
| ST MARY'S HEALTH CLINICS | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 NORTH CENTRAL CAMP CHERITH ↗
- Who funds VEAP Inc ↗
- Who funds Sojourner Project Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD ↗
- Who funds EMMA NORTON SERVICES ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds Family Promise in Anoka County ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA BOAT CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Cradle of Hope ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Barrett Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barrett Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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