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Barron Family Foundation Inc

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.

$250k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

International$734kAnimals$352kReligion$172kEnvironment$138kHealth$114kPhilanthropy$98kCrime & Legal$55kFood & Nutrition$53kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$16,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MATA AMRITANANDANMAYI CENTER$100,000
THE WESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$22,000
DENKAI ANIMAL SANCTUARY$18,000
SAVE A CHILD'S HEART$17,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$17,000
JSSA$16,000
GLOBAL FEDERATION OF ANIMAL SANCTUARIES$10,000
THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON$10,000
BALANCED$10,000
THE DOLPHIN HOUSE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%GLOBAL FEDERATION OF ANIMAL SANCTUARIES: $40k → 11%MATA AMRITANANDANMAYI CENTER: $100k → 9%MATA AMRITANANDANMAYI CENTER: $130k → 10%ANIMAL DEFENSE PARTNERSHIP INC: $22k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10k → 17%FOSTER DOGS INC: $10k → 20%AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION FOR NUTRITION: $13k → 10%BALANCED: $10k → 15%PINYON SONG INC: $25k → 7%THE DOLPHIN HOUSE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $15k → 12%350 COLORADO: $20k → 12%DENKAI ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $18k → 15%THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $10k → 8%C&O CANAL TRUST: $13k → 12%GLOBAL FEDERATION OF ANIMAL SANCTUARIES: $22k → 11%MATA AMRITANANDANMAYI CENTER: $100k → 9%MATA AMRITANANDANMAYI CENTER: $22k → 10%ANIMAL DEFENSE PARTNERSHIP INC: $20k → 9%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $25k → 17%AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE RIDGWAY LIBRARY: $20k → 7%DENKAI ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $18k → 15%JSSA: $25k → 8%GLOBAL FEDERATION OF ANIMAL SANCTUARIES: $20k → 11%MATA AMRITANANDANMAYI CENTER: $100k → 9%ANIMAL DEFENSE PARTNERSHIP INC: $20k → 9%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $15k → 17%AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE RIDGWAY LIBRARY: $14k → 7%DENKAI ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $18k → 15%JSSA: $16k → 8%GLOBAL FEDERATION OF ANIMAL SANCTUARIES: $20k → 11%MATA AMRITANANDANMAYI CENTER: $92k → 9%ANIMAL DEFENSE PARTNERSHIP INC: $20k → 9%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $13k → 17%THE GREEN BELT MOVEMENT: $20k → 20%DENKAI ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $18k → 15%JSSA: $15k → 8%GLOBAL FEDERATION OF ANIMAL SANCTUARIES: $20k → 11%MATA AMRITANANDANMAYI CENTER: $90k → 9%ANIMAL DEFENSE PARTNERSHIP INC: $20k → 9%JSSA: $15k → 8%GLOBAL FEDERATION OF ANIMAL SANCTUARIES: $20k → 11%MATA AMRITANANDANMAYI CENTER: $90k → 9%JSSA: $15k → 8%JSSA: $15k → 8%JSSA: $13k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MI
NY
CA
CO
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MD
AZ
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DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 14 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
4

Total granted

$1.5M
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+33%

Still filing today

64%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalAnimalsEnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

  • GF
    GLOBAL FEDERATION OF ANIMAL SANCTUARIES
    7× · 2018–2024 · $152k · revenue +10%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $125k · revenue +89%
  • AD
    ANIMAL DEFENSE PARTNERSHIP INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $102k · revenue ×16 · 42% of their budget

Funded once

  • PS
    PINYON SONG INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • 3C
    350 COLORADOgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +131%
  • TG
    THE GREEN BELT MOVEMENT
    one grant, 2018 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
3
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
4
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
5
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
6
Defenders of Wildlife

Defenders of Wildlife is a national, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities.

Animals
7
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
8
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
9
American Forests

Protection and expansion of threatened urban and wildland forest ecosystems. See Part III

Environment
10
Mercy for Animals Inc

Mercy for animals' mission is to construct a compassionate food system that is not just kind to animals but essential for the future of our planet and all who share it. our vision of a world where animals are respected, protected, and free…

Animals
11
Animals First Aid Nfp

Animals First Aid supports grassroots animal welfare groups worldwide by raising funds, sharing resources, and responding to urgent rescue and care needs.

Animals
12
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Magen David Adom and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Ridgway Library. 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

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MATA AMRITANANDANMAYI CENTER — $572,000 · OtherMATA AMRITANANDANMAYI CENTERMATA AMRITANANDAMAYI CENTER — $152,000 · OtherMATA AMRITANANDAMAYI CENTERJSSA — $113,500 · OtherJSSATHE DOLPHIN HOUSE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $55,000 · OtherTHE DOLPHIN HOUSE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER+5 more — $121,500 · Other+5 moreGLOBAL FEDERATION OF ANIMAL SANCTUARIES — $151,500 · AnimalsGLOBAL FEDERATION OF …ANIMAL DEFENSE PARTNERSHIP INC — $101,500 · AnimalsANIMAL DEFENSE PARTNE…Denkai Animal Sanctuary — $72,000 · AnimalsDenkai Animal Sanctua…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $124,500 · InternationalMEDECINS S…Amazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East — $20,000 · InternationalAmazima Mi…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $10,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN F…WESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $88,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyAMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $60,000 · Environment350 COLORADO — $20,000 · EnvironmentC&O CANAL TRUST INC — $12,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE RIDGWAY LIBRARY — $34,000 · EducationBALANCED INC — $20,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,014,000Animals$325,000International$164,500Philanthropy$98,000Environment$92,500Education$34,000Food & Nutrition$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGLOBAL FEDERATION OF ANIMAL SANCTUARIES — $151,500 over 7y, 8.6% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $124,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL DEFENSE PARTNERSHIP INC — $101,500 over 5y, 42% of budgetWESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $88,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDenkai Animal Sanctuary — $72,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $60,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE RIDGWAY LIBRARY — $34,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetFoster Dogs Inc — $27,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetPINYON SONG INC — $25,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetAmazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBALANCED INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budget350 COLORADO — $20,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC — $17,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetC&O CANAL TRUST INC — $12,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Barron Family 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.

2024
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no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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