How much does Barrette Family Fund give?

Barrette Family Fund reported 26 grants totaling $871,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Barrette Family Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (26%), Arts & Culture (23%), Health (19%).

Who are Barrette Family Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Northern Stage Company ($1.0M), Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center ($984k), Kimball Union Academy ($410k).

Does Barrette Family Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Barrette Family Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Barrette Family Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, The Couch Family Foundation, Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc.

Where is Barrette Family Fund based?

Barrette Family Fund is based in NH.

Barrette Family Fund

Barrette Family Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

Barrette Family Fund

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.

$871k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$275k

Largest

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.

Philanthropy$2.2MArts & Culture$1.9MHealth$1.6MEducation$786kHuman Services$572kPublic Benefit$368kEnvironment$186kFood & Nutrition$164kOther$0

02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k11 grants · $46k
$10k–50k9 grants · $128k
$50k–250k5 grants · $422k
$250k+1 grant · $275k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$14M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NEW HAMPSHIRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	$275,000
NORTHERN STAGE	$150,000
Upper Valley Haven	$122,000
Lebanon Opera House	$50,000
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center	$50,000
Individual grant recipient	$50,000
HANOVER NURSEY SCHOOL	$38,000
UPPER VALLEY BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOUN	$15,000
Gift of Adoption	$15,000
Interplay Jazz Arts Inc	$10,000
WILLING HANDS	$10,000
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital	$10,000
CLAREMONT SOUP KITCHEN	$10,000
Friends of University Laval	$10,000
NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $177k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.7M · 36 repeat orgs$392k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.7M

$370k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%

+11%

Still filing today

83%

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentAnimalsOther

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

NS
NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
8× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +227%
KU
KIMBALL UNION ACADEMY
6× · 2018–2025 · $410k · revenue +35%
UV
UPPER VALLEY HAVEN
9× · 2017–2025 · $368k · revenue +107%

Funded once

TC
THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES
one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +0%
GE
GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +17%
HC
Hopkins Center for the Arts
one grant, 2023 · $50k

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.

Vermont Public Co

Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.

Arts & Culture

Wentworth Watershed Association

To protect and preserve the Wentworth-Crescent Watershed through initiatives that enhance water quality, land conservation and community education.

Environment

Northeast Kingdom Development Corporation

Fostering, encouraging and assisting the physical location of business enterprises within the States of Vermont and New Hampshire, and having its principal purpose be industrial and economic development of one or more political…

Employment

Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation

Philanthropy

Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire

NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.

Food & Nutrition

Dartmouth Health Home Care Inc

We are dedicated to delivering outstanding home health and hospice services that enrich the lives of the people we serve.

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Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Medical Center

Cvph medical center's mission is to provide quality health care for the north country region in upstate new york.

Health

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Granite State News Collaborative

The Granite State News Collaborative is a statewide multimedia news collaborative that draws on and amplifies the strengths of its members to expand and add missing dimensions to coverage of issues of concern to the NH public as a whole,…

Arts & Culture

The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services

Vermont Humanities Council

Using the humanities, we connect with people across vermont to create just, vibrant, and resilient communities, and to inspire a lifelong love of learning.

—

New Hampshire Historical Society

To educate a diverse public about the significance of New Hampshire's past and its relationship to our lives today. To this end, the Society collects, preserves, and interprets material pertaining to New Hampshire history.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Meriden Bird Club 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

61 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. 61 of the 79 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

60/61

Grantees still filing

39/61

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$2,212,800Arts & Culture$1,731,569Health$1,501,250Other$1,780,628Education$670,500Human Services$185,000Public Benefit$183,000

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.

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.

New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH55.1× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Couch Family Foundation · Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · Mascoma Bank Foundation · The Stannard & Dorothy Dunn Charitable Trust · Claremont Savings Bank Foundation · Emily Landecker Foundation Inc · The Burkehaven Family Foundation · Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital · Mt Roeschmore Foundation · The Help for People 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 Barrette Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barrette Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

10get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely 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.

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