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Barron Family Foundation Inc

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.

$250k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$734kAnimals$352kReligion$172kEnvironment$138kHealth$114kPhilanthropy$98kCrime & Legal$55kFood & Nutrition$53kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$6.1M
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
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$10,000
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
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE$5,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$5,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%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%AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION FOR NUTRITION: $13k → 10%PINYON SONG INC: $25k → 7%THE DOLPHIN HOUSE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $15k → 12%350 COLORADO: $20k → 12%DENKAI ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $18k → 15%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%AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE RIDGWAY LIBRARY: $20k → 7%DENKAI ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $18k → 15%GLOBAL FEDERATION OF ANIMAL SANCTUARIES: $20k → 11%MATA AMRITANANDANMAYI CENTER: $100k → 9%ANIMAL DEFENSE PARTNERSHIP INC: $20k → 9%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $25k → 17%AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE RIDGWAY LIBRARY: $14k → 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%THE GREEN BELT MOVEMENT: $20k → 20%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%DENKAI ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $18k → 15%JSSA: $16k → 8%GLOBAL FEDERATION OF ANIMAL SANCTUARIES: $20k → 11%MATA AMRITANANDANMAYI CENTER: $90k → 9%JSSA: $15k → 8%MATA AMRITANANDANMAYI CENTER: $90k → 9%JSSA: $15k → 8%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
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

MI
NY
CA
CO
MO
MD
AZ
TN
DC
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 16 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
5

Total granted

$1.8M
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+108%

Still filing today

69%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalAnimalsEnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther
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

  • GF
    GLOBAL FEDERATION OF ANIMAL SANCTUARIES
    8× · 2018–2025 · $162k · revenue +10%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $142k · 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
  • TG
    THE GREEN BELT MOVEMENT
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • 3C
    350 COLORADOgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +131%
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.

1
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
2
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
3
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
4
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
5
Global Animal Partnership
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
Faunalytics

Empower animal advocates with research, insights, and strategies that maximize their effectiveness to end animal suffering.

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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
African Wildlife Foundation Inc

Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…

Animals
10
A Greener World

A Greener World empowers sustainable solutions in agriculture, promoting and supporting real-life farming models to the public and offering farmers and ranchers practical guidance, resources and support on achieving truly sustainable…

Food & Nutrition
11
American Friends of Combatants for Peace Inc

(part iii, line 1) american friends of combatants for peace is a diverse community working in solidarity with combatants for peace. afcfp raises awareness and resources, builds community, and takes direct action to advance the goal of a…

Education
12
Akashinga Inc

Deliver ecological stability and long-term protection of large-scale wilderness by supporting and empowering local communities.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Magen David Adom; 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

19 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. 19 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
9/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MATA AMRITANANDANMAYI CENTER: $672,000 · OtherMATA AMRITANANDANMAYI CENTERMATA AMRITANANDAMAYI CENTER: $152,000 · OtherMATA AMRITANANDAMAYI CENTERJSSA: $129,500 · OtherJSSATHE DOLPHIN HOUSE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $65,000 · OtherTHE DOLPHIN HOUSE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER+5 more: $138,500 · Other+5 moreGLOBAL FEDERATION OF ANIMAL SANCTUARIES: $161,500 · AnimalsGLOBAL FEDERATION OF…ANIMAL DEFENSE PARTNERSHIP INC: $101,500 · AnimalsANIMAL DEFENSE PARTN…Denkai Animal Sanctuary: $90,000 · AnimalsDenkai Animal Sanctu…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $141,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SA…Amazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East: $20,000 · InternationalAmazima Min…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $20,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FR…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $10,000 · International+1 more: $5,000 · InternationalWESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $20,000 · 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: $30,000 · Food & NutritionANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Other$1,157,000Animals$353,000International$196,500Philanthropy$130,000Environment$92,500Education$34,000Food & Nutrition$30,000Civil Rights$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGLOBAL FEDERATION OF ANIMAL SANCTUARIES: $161,500 over 8y, 8.6% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $141,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetANIMAL DEFENSE PARTNERSHIP INC: $101,500 over 5y, 42% of budgetDenkai Animal Sanctuary: $90,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $34,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE RIDGWAY LIBRARY: $34,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetBALANCED INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% 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 budget350 COLORADO: $20,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barron Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's 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, 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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