How much does Barron Family Foundation give?

Barron Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $31,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Barron Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (28%), Philanthropy (20%), Youth Development (16%).

Who are Barron Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Racquet Up Detroit ($78k), The Detroit Institute of Arts ($60k), Palm Springs Art Museum ($41k).

Does Barron Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Barron Family Foundation 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 Barron Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation, Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation, Grosfeld Foundation.

Where is Barron Family Foundation based?

Barron Family Foundation is based in MI.

Barron Family Foundation

Barron Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Barron Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$31k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$268kPhilanthropy$190kYouth Development$151kHealth$106kEducation$94kReligion$39kHuman Services$30kFood & Nutrition$6kOther$0

02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $11k
$10k–50k2 grants · $20k

$3,600

Median grant

States reached

$972k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
RACQUET UP DETROIT	$10,000
LOS ANGELES LEADERSHIP ACADEMY	$10,000
RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL	$5,000
TEMPLE ISRAEL	$3,600
TAMARACK CAMPS	$1,000
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$1,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$500

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 (FY18–22, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% 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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$574k · 41 repeat orgs$188k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$574k

$188k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+21%

Still filing today

71%

49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsReligionOther

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

RU
RACQUET UP DETROIT
6× · 2018–2024 · $78k · revenue +19%
THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
2× · 2021–2022 · $60k · revenue +47%
LA
LOS ANGELES LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
5× · 2018–2024 · $38k · revenue +9%

Funded once

TA
THE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM
one grant, 2022 · $50k
NA
NSU ART MUSEUM FORT LAUDERDALE
one grant, 2023 · $24k
DB
DANIEL BOONE REGIONAL LIBRARY
one grant, 2018 · $15k

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.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy

The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education

University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit; the most unlike its peers is The Standby Program 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

60 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. 60 of the 95 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)

58/60

Grantees still filing

40/60

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$317,080Philanthropy$188,000Arts & Culture$174,606Education$81,800Recreation & Sports$80,500Health$63,000Human Services$46,000

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.

Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey FoundationMI22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation · Grosfeld Foundation · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · The Sherman Family Foundation · Madeleine H and Mandell L Berman Support Foundation · David Kahan Family Foundation · Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust · The Ravitz Foundation · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · Cliff & Marilyn Weisberg Family 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 Barron Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barron Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home