· Private foundation
Barrow 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $255k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $350k
- $250k+1 grant · $603k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rockport Center for the Arts | $603,000 |
| Halo Flight Inc | $100,000 |
| Rockport Songwriter Assn | $100,000 |
| The Rock Church of Rockport | $50,000 |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $50,000 |
| Flatsworthy Inc | $50,000 |
| Pacific Legal Foundation | $35,000 |
| Odyssey After School Enrichment Pro | $30,000 |
| Camp Aranzazu Inc | $30,000 |
| The Salvation Army of Coastal Bend | $30,000 |
| Humane Society of Rockport-Fulton | $25,000 |
| Rockport Volunteer Fire Department | $20,000 |
| The 100 Club of Aransas County | $20,000 |
| Boys Girls Club of Aransas County | $20,000 |
| Wings Rescue Center | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $310k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 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; $180k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- RVRockport Volunteer Fire Department Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $492k · revenue +211% · 40% of their budget
- PLPacific Legal Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $315k · revenue +136%
- TOTHE ODYSSEY AFTER-SCHOOL ENRICHMENT PROGRAM9× · 2017–2025 · $275k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- RCRockport-Fulton Chamber Foundationone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -100%
- FOFriends of Aransas County History Cone grant, 2019 · $5k
- PCPregnancy Center of CBone grant, 2022 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Advancement and preservation of the fine arts through exhibitions, lectures, demonstrations and educational programs.
Rockport music inspires a love and understanding of music through exceptional live performances and creative learning opportunities.
Inspire artists, audiences, and our greater southern wisconsin community to celabrate the art of theatre.
A summer arts program for children, exhibitions, performances, literary events, and community arts in education outreach.
The organization owns a fine arts facility housing two theaters, an art gallery, a planetarium and a natural science museum. All promote the arts and sciences in the surrounding communities.
Promotion of commerce and tourism
The Friends of Rockport is a community based 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to the preservation and improvement of the historic character of Rockport, Maine, with particular emphasis on what Charles Kuralt deemed the most "perfect small…
None
The westhampton beach performing arts center is a year-round, community-based, not-for-profit 501(c)3 arts organization, founded in 1997, that serves patrons on the east end and beyond. we are a vibrant venue committed to providing a…
Rockaway film festival presents cinema and other arts at the coastal edge of new york city, joining artists and audiences for unique collective experiences.
To produce a diverse body of theatrical work of the highest artistic standards. with a focus on dramatic storytelling that illuminates the human journey, the theatre entertains, engages and challenges local and regional audiences of all…
The Saco River Theatres mission is art, culture and the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rx Art Inc and the most unlike its peers is Landmark Legal Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 44 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Rockport Art Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Rockport Volunteer Fire Department Inc ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE ODYSSEY AFTER-SCHOOL ENRICHMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Camp Aranzazu Inc ↗
- Who funds FLATSWORTHY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT SONGWRITER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds HALO FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds RX ART INC ↗
- Who funds MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds FULTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE OPERA FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS RESCUE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT LITTLE THEATER ↗
- Who funds Rockport-Fulton Chamber Foundation ↗
- Who funds Landmark Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT CULTURAL ARTS DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT WARRIORS UNITED ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Margaret Sue Rust Foundation · Steps Foundation fka The Powers Private Foundation · Coastal Bend Community Foundation · Marguerite Sours Foundation · Ed Rachal Foundation · The O'Connor & Hewitt Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Barrow Foundation 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.
- Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Berkshire Theatre Group Inc — 1% of income from government
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.