Texas · 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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $603,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Barrow Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $1.2M | 18% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $435k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $332k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $694k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $597k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $255k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $251k | 5% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $754k | 14% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rockport Art Association Inc | $620,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Rockport Volunteer Fire Department Inc | $491,500 | 9 | 40% |
| Pacific Legal Foundation | $315,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Odyssey After-School Enrichment Program | $275,000 | 9 | 11% |
| Camp Aranzazu Inc | $230,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Flatsworthy Inc | $180,000 | 4 | 33% |
| Rockport Songwriter Association | $150,000 | 2 | 27% |
| Houston Compass Inc | $105,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Halo Flight Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Barrow Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Barrow Foundation
- How much does Barrow Foundation give?
- Barrow Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $1,228,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Barrow Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (52%), Public Safety & Disaster (11%), Crime & Legal (7%).
- Who are Barrow Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rockport Art Association Inc ($620k), Rockport Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($492k), Pacific Legal Foundation ($315k).
- Does Barrow Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Barrow 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 Barrow Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Margaret Sue Rust Foundation, Steps Foundation fka The Powers Private Foundation, Coastal Bend Community Foundation.
- Where is Barrow Foundation based?
- Barrow Foundation is based in TX.
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