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Barstow Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
The 38 grants below total $291,700 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $406,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $114,300 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $149k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hospice Austin Fund | $61,800 |
| Doctors Without Borders USA Inc. | $20,000 |
| Big Brother Big Sisters of Midland County Inc. | $19,250 |
| Family and Childrens Services of Mid-Michigan FCSM | $19,250 |
| Chippewa Nature Center Inc. | $19,250 |
| Humane Society of Midland County | $19,250 |
| Swannanoa Valley Christian Ministry | $17,800 |
| Manna Food Bank, Inc. | $13,000 |
| World Central Kitchen, Inc. | $11,000 |
| United States Association for UNHCR | $10,000 |
| Marin Humane Society | $7,725 |
| International Institute of New England Inc. | $6,000 |
| United States Fund for UNICEF | $6,000 |
| Can Do Multiple Sclerosis | $4,950 |
| Rescue 4 All, Inc. | $4,500 |
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 (FY17–23, $587k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +54% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
76 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
- HAHOSPICE AUSTIN4× · 2017–2020 · $225k · revenue +45%
- MIMcBackpack Inc6× · 2017–2023 · $163k · revenue +155% · 47% of their budget
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC7× · 2017–2024 · $148k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- QSQUEST SCHOLARS PROGRAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $26k · revenue +112%
- NCNORTH COAST OPPORTUNITIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +78%
- EIExpansion International Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +92%
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.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is A Heros Home Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
89 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 89 of the 140 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 HOSPICE AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE AUSTIN FUND ↗
- Who funds McBackpack Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Legacy Center for Community Success ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds WEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW REFLECTIONS PATHWAY TO HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Midland County ↗
- Who funds Can Do Multiple Sclerosis ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds Bounty & Soul ↗
- Who funds Swannanoa Valley Montessori School Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE COLORADO RIVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND EMERGENCY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Domestic Peace ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CANOPY VILLAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIVENS ESTATES INC ↗
- Who funds Family & Children's Services of Mid-Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NASHUA SOUP KITCHEN & SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MILO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds QUEST SCHOLARS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds Caregiving Network Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH COAST OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA ↗
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: The Patricia and David Kepler Foundation · Midland Area Community Foundation · United Way of Midland County · The Mary C Currie Foundation · The Charles J Strosacker Foundation · Alden and Vada Dow Fund · The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation · Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Marin Community 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 Barstow 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.
- Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc — 69% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Project Citizenship Inc — 10% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.
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