How much does Barsky Family Foundation give?

Barsky Family Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $1,841 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 42 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Barsky Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (17%), Health (17%), Religion (15%).

Who are Barsky Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Mishkan Ha Am ($2k), Duke University ($750), Fresh Air Fund ($700).

Does Barsky Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Barsky 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 Barsky Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is Barsky Family Foundation based?

Barsky Family Foundation is based in NY.

Barsky Family Foundation

Barsky Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Barsky Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2k

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$250

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, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$3kHealth$3kReligion$2kInternational$2kEnvironment$1kAnimals$790Civil Rights$770Recreation & Sports$700Other$0

02FY2023 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$40

Median grant

States reached

$1k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MISHKAN HA'AM	$250
THE FRESH AIR FUND	$100
THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUN	$100
DUKE UNIVERSITY	$100
COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK	$100
THE NEW ISRAEL FUND	$100
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF AMERICA	$75
LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY	$75
THIRTEEN	$75
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER	$50
FRIENDS OF OLD CROTON ACQUEDUCT	$50
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE	$50
HUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION	$50
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE	$40
TECHNOSERVE	$40

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$14k · 43 repeat orgs$990 to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$14k

$890

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+2%

Still filing today

77%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthInternationalEnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureEducationOther

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

DUKE UNIVERSITY
7× · 2017–2023 · $750 · revenue +51%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $565 · revenue +12%
BC
BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $525 · revenue +4%

Funded once

K9S FOR WARRIORS INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $200 · revenue +138%
MIDWEST ATHLETES AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCER INC
one grant, 2021 · $200 · revenue -23%
MS
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CEN
one grant, 2017 · $200

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.

Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment

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

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition

Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights

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

Natural Resources Defense Council Inc

We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…

Environment

Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

Environment

Researchamerica

2025 was a turbulent year for the medical and health research community, but our commitment to advocating for science never wavered. from pushing back against funding threats to elevating researchers' voices and equipping advocates, we…

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The International Dark-Sky Association Inc

Darksky international restores the nighttime environment and protects communities from the harmful effects of light pollution through outreach, advocacy, and conservation.

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Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services

Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct. 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

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 52 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)

38/38

Grantees still filing

31/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$8,145Health$2,505International$2,440Education$750Environment$750Recreation & Sports$700Animals$690

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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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

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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