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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Animal Friends Alliance$25,000
Woodlands Wildlife Refuge Inc$25,000
First Coast No More Homeless Pets Inc$25,000
Oregon Humane Society$25,000
University of California Davis$22,522
University of Idaho Foundation$22,000
Cleveland Animal Protective League$20,000
Austin Pets Alive$20,000
Animal Friends Inc$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
Louisiana SPCA$15,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

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

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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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 15% of Bernice Barbour Foundation Inc 5487-00-40’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Bernice Barbour Foundation Inc 5487-00-40lessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

76
27

Total granted

$3.6M
$600k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+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
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

  • 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%
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.

1
Hart

Animal shelter and rescue

Animals
2
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
3
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
6
Tampa Bay Strays Inc

Animal rescue and adoption facilitator to permanent homes.

Animals
7
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
8
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
9
Beaverhead Animal Shelter

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

Animals
10
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
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit; 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.
05the grantee network

84 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. 84 of the 107 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/84
Grantees still filing
59/84
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetPELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN RAPTOR PROGRAM: $50,000 over 5y, 1.5% 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 budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSpay-Neuter Assistance Program Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 0.2% 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 budgetAMERICAN BLACK AND TAN COONHOUND RESCUE INC: $27,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budget
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 tightly interlocked group: 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

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 Bernice Barbour Foundation Inc 5487-00-40 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bernice Barbour Foundation Inc 5487-00-40. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%3%13%28%50%funder's 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
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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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 107 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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