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Bernice Barbour Foundation Inc 5487-00-40

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
68
Grants FY2024still arriving
34
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Animals$3.9MEducation$484kPublic Safety & Disaster$150kRecreation & Sports$35kEnvironment$34kHealth$26kArts & Culture$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k34 grants · $257k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $519k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$10,000
Median grant
34
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tufts University$400,000
Woodlands Wildlife Refuge Inc$25,000
First Coast No More Homeless Pets Inc$25,000
Animal Friends Alliance$25,000
Oregon Humane Society$25,000
University of California Davis$22,522
University of Idaho Foundation$22,000
Animal Friends Inc$20,000
Cleveland Animal Protective League$20,000
Austin Pets Alive$20,000
Friends For Animals of Metro Detroit$17,500
St Hubert's Animal Welfare Center$17,000
Animal Welfare Association Inc$16,500
Alley Cat Advocates Inc$16,000
Community Animal Welfare Society$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Tufts University: $400k → 8%University of Idaho: $30k → 16%Animal Friends Inc: $20k → 11%SEE ATTACHMENT: $828k → 22%Point Blue Conservation Science: $35k → 9%Animals In Need Fund: $15k → 12%California Veterinary Medical Foundation: $175k → 12%UC Regents: $150k → 16%Bideawee Inc: $15k → 17%Austin Pets Alive: $20k → 10%First Coast No More Homeless Pets Inc: $25k → 14%Animal Rescue League Of Iowa Inc: $15k → 10%Second Chance Animal Shelter Inc: $15k → 16%Friends For Animals of Metro Detroit: $18k → 21%Humane Society of Central Oregon: $15k → 10%Willamette Humane Society: $16k → 14%Heartland Humane Society: $15k → 18%Community Animal Welfare Society: $15k → 8%Longmont Humane Society Inc: $15k → 12%Denver Dumb Friends League: $20k → 12%Cleveland Animal Protective League: $30k → 17%Humane Society For Seattle-King Co: $15k → 9%Woodlands Wildlife Refuge Inc: $20k → 4%St Hubert's Animal Welfare Center: $17k → 4%Animal Welfare Association Inc: $17k → 12%Louisiana SPCA: $20k → 23%Alley Cat Advocates Inc: $18k → 15%University of Idaho: $26k → 16%Animal Friends Inc: $20k → 11%University of Pennsylvania Veterinary: $200k → 22%Point Blue Conservation Science: $35k → 9%University of California Davis: $23k → 16%Austin Pets Alive: $15k → 10%First Coast No More Homeless Pets Inc: $15k → 14%Animal Rescue League Of Iowa Inc: $15k → 10%Friends For Animals of Metro Detroit: $15k → 21%Cleveland Animal Protective League: $24k → 17%Alley Cat Advocates Inc: $16k → 15%University of Idaho Foundation: $22k → 16%University of Pennsylvania Veterinary: $200k → 22%Point Blue Conservation Science: $35k → 9%Cleveland Animal Protective League: $20k → 17%Woodlands Wildlife Refuge Inc: $25k → 4%University of Pennsylvania Veterinary: $150k → 22%Woodlands Wildlife Refuge Inc: $20k → 4%The Animal Medical Center: $50k → 17%Animal Friends Alliance: $25k → 11%Animal Friends Alliance: $25k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 15% of Bernice Barbour Foundation Inc 5487-00-40’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Bernice Barbour Foundation Inc 5487-00-40lessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.6M · 76 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

76 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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27

Total granted

$3.6M
$600k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+13%

Still filing today

88%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $438k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationEnvironmentOther

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

  • TC
    THE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $115k · revenue +21%
  • PR
    POINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY
    3× · 2021–2023 · $105k · revenue +113%
  • AF
    ANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • CV
    California Veterinary Medical Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $175k · revenue +17% · 44% of their budget
  • UR
    UC Regents
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • TA
    THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -5%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Hart

Animal shelter and rescue

Animals
2
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
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Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals
4
Jet Wag Animal Rescue Inc

Our mission is to move adoptable dogs and cats primarily from heavily-burdened areas to loving homes. We work with trusted partners throughout the country and around the world and facilitate vet care, transport, and adoptions to help…

Animals
5
All About Animals Rescue

All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.

Animals
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Tampa Bay Strays Inc

Animal rescue and adoption facilitator to permanent homes.

Animals
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Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
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Tennessee River Rescues

we exist to spay and neuter unwanted pets in our local area trying to find them a home to thrive in until the end of their time

Animals
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Beaverhead Animal Shelter

The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.

Animals
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Meows and Mutts Rescue

We are an animal rescue who takes dogs and cats from high kill shelters, off the streets and owner surrenders and get them vetted and adopted and we transport them out of high volume areas to the northeast.

Animals
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New River Humane Society Inc

New River Humane Society isdedicated to serving the needs of community members animals in Fayette County surrounding areas. We passionately try to contoll the pet population through spay/neuter programs, ensuring all animals are treated…

Animals
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Sos Lost Pet Rescue Nw Inc

Decrease over population of feral cats by trapping and doing spay or neuter. Provide veterinarian care to kittens. Take owner relinquishments of pets they can no longer care for. Taking in abandoned animals and providing veterinary care.…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit and the most unlike its peers is Haywood Pet Care 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Equine Therapy ProgramsCommunity FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Animal Rescue and Shelter
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%45%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%39%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%36%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/85
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,480

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.

05the grantee network

84 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. 84 of the 107 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
82/84
Grantees still filing
59/84
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

California Veterinary Medical Foundation — $175,000 · AnimalsCalifornia Veterinary Medical FoundationTHE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE — $115,050 · AnimalsPOINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY — $105,000 · AnimalsANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE — $100,000 · AnimalsWOODLANDS WILDLIFE REFUGE INC — $100,000 · Animals+72 more — $2,403,651 · Animals+72 moreUniversity of Pennsylvania Veterinary — $550,000 · OtherUniversity of Pennsylvania V…UC Regents — $150,000 · OtherUC RegentsUniversity of Idaho — $56,000 · OtherLouisiana SPCA — $55,000 · OtherSt Hubert's Animal Welfare Center — $52,000 · OtherWILLAMETTE HUMANE SOCIETY — $41,000 · Other+21 more — $262,267 · Other+21 moreTrustees of Tufts College — $400,000 · EducationTrustees of…University of Idaho Foundation Inc — $61,192 · EducationUniversity …ROCKY MOUNTAIN RAPTOR PROGRAM — $50,000 · Environment
Animals$2,998,701Other$1,166,267Education$461,192Environment$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $400,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Veterinary Medical Foundation — $175,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE — $115,050 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPOINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY — $105,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE — $100,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetWOODLANDS WILDLIFE REFUGE INC — $100,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetAnimal Friends Inc — $85,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetALLEY CAT ADVOCATES INC — $79,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC — $72,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFirst Coast No More Homeless Pets Inc — $70,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHumane Society of Tampa Bay Inc — $67,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY — $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTLAND HUMANE SOCIETY — $63,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDS FOR ANIMALS OF METRO DETROIT — $62,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetUniversity of Idaho Foundation Inc — $61,192 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $60,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBIDEAWEE INC — $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWildcare Eastern Sierra — $54,000 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE VETERINARY SERVICES — $53,500 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetAnimal Welfare Association Inc — $51,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetKANSAS HUMANE SOCIETY OF WICHITA KANSAS — $50,285 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN RAPTOR PROGRAM — $50,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetPELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHOBO HOTEL INC — $47,500 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY - — $45,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetTHE SPAYED CLUB — $44,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLeague for Animal Welfare — $42,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetFLORIDA WILD MAMMAL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $42,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetWILLAMETTE HUMANE SOCIETY — $41,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIETY INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetProject Safe Pet — $38,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetCATS EXCLUSIVE INC — $38,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCASCADES RAPTOR CENTER — $37,200 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetROCKFISH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC — $36,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetSpay-Neuter Assistance Program Inc — $35,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC — $33,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSPAY & NEUTER KANSAS CITY D/B/A PET RESOURCE CENTER OF KANSAS CITY — $32,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FREDERICK COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $32,200 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetFAYETTE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $30,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CAT COALITION OF CLARK COUNTY — $30,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetHumane Society of Putnam County Inc — $29,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetTREE HOUSE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $29,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER ANDROSCOGGIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $28,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR PETS INC — $27,500 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetHAYWOOD PET CARE INC — $27,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budget
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.

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.

BISSELL Pet FoundationPetco LoveThe Duffield Family F…Petsmart Charities IncPedigree FoundationThe American Society …Banfield FoundationBest Friends Animal S…Humane World for Anim…Greater Good CharitiesThornton S Jr and Kat…The Grey Muzzle Organ…
BISSELL Pet FoundationMI47.2× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: BISSELL Pet Foundation · Petco Love · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Petsmart Charities Inc · Pedigree Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Banfield Foundation · Best Friends Animal Society · Humane World for Animals Inc · Greater Good Charities · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · The Grey Muzzle Organization

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 Bernice Barbour Foundation Inc 5487-00-40 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to Bernice Barbour Foundation Inc 5487-00-40?

Find your warmest path to Bernice Barbour Foundation Inc 5487-00-40 through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 107 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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