· Private foundation
Bob Barker Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k65 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Pardoned by Christ | $25,000 |
| Oxford House | $25,000 |
| Second Street Second Chances Inc | $25,000 |
| Campbell University | $25,000 |
| Men of Valor | $25,000 |
| Hudson Link for Higher Education | $25,000 |
| A Cut Above the Rest | $25,000 |
| Mount Tamalpais College | $25,000 |
| Clean State Utah | $25,000 |
| PIVOT | $25,000 |
| Bridges to Life | $25,000 |
| Triangle Family Services | $25,000 |
| RISE | $21,000 |
| Turn 2 U Inc | $21,000 |
| Reaching Out from Within | $21,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $819k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% 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 +46% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
88 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 47 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $682k 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
- BTBRIDGES TO LIFE5× · 2017–2024 · $151k · revenue +35%
- CCChanged Choices Inc5× · 2017–2023 · $144k · revenue +48%
- RARE-ENTRY ALLIANCE PENSACOLA4× · 2017–2023 · $122k · revenue +418%
Funded once
- SRSimeon Resource and Development Center for Men Incone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -1%
- LRLEXINGTON RESCUE MISSIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +98%
- PRPROJECT REENTRYone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
Re-entry Program in Durham NC
The WorkWell Partnership operates a four-week job training program consisting of training and counseling, with qualified trainers, mentors, and advocates helping to prepare formerly incarcerated citizens for employment that can be…
Recovery Career Services exists to support individuals in recovery from substance use and those impacted by the criminal justice system in obtaining and maintaining employment. The organization provides career coaching, job readiness…
SCORES Reentry is an independent, privately supported, non-sectarian agency. The agency mission is to create opportunities for individuals impacted by the criminal justice system, poverty or substance abuse. The agency seeks to make…
PAR-Recycle Works provides transitional employment for individuals returning from prison working in our electronic recycling business. Recycling revenues along with grants and donations support the salaries of our returning citizen program…
Training and jobs for exoffenders
Redemption road provides housing, re-entry and transition services for men and women coming out of the criminal justice system. the mission is to provide to provide christ centered, bible based recovery from drug and alcohol abuse, damaged…
Restore inmates and those addicted back in to society
Transitional Living Services for ex-offe
Drug and alcohol rehabilitation and counseling in connection with job training and placement services
Empowering Men and Women On the Move for Re-entry Inc, Supportive Housing Program for who are Homeless in Metro Atlanta. Mission Improve Quality of Life.
Helping men, women, and young adults successfully reenter the workforce, their families, and our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Incarceration Assoc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vital Signs Economic Stability Training. 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 22 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 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
198 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. 198 of the 279 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 BRIDGES TO LIFE ↗
- Who funds Changed Choices Inc ↗
- Who funds RE-ENTRY ALLIANCE PENSACOLA ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC ↗
- Who funds ARISE COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds PRISON UNIVERSITY PROJECT INC DBA MOUNT TAMALPAIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PRISON ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Pardoned by Christ ↗
- Who funds HOUR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds DEFY VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING TRANSITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds STEPUP MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds The Center for Community Transitions ↗
- Who funds Community Success Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds MEN OF VALOR ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE PRISON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds RETURNING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds OAR of Richmond Inc ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA PAROLE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds OFFENDER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE PRISONERS HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Resonance Center for Women Inc ↗
- Who funds Mothers and Their Children Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST AT BLUE RIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Conflict Resolution ↗
- Who funds KRISTI OVERTON JOHNSON MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Journey to New Life INC ↗
- Who funds JOBS FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Community Mediation Maryland Inc ↗
- Who funds INSPIRATION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Men of Valor Inc ↗
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 Leon Levine Foundation · Stand Together Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Redf · Truist Foundation Inc · Crossroads Fellowship Foundation · Blackwell Family Foundation Inc · Lonnie & Carol Poole Family Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation · Serving USA Inc Fka Serving California
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 Bob Barker Foundation Inc 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.
- Workforce Investment Council of Clackamas County — 87% of income from government
- Partakers Inc — 59% of income from government
- Pathfinders of Oregon — 57% of income from government
- Community Solutions Inc — 55% of income from government
- Oklahoma County Diversion Hub Inc — 51% of income from government
- Missionsafe a New Beginning Inc — 38% of income from government
- Community Mediation Maryland Inc — 37% of income from government
- Second Street Second Chances Inc — 33% of income from government
- Gulfstream Goodwill Industries Inc — 27% of income from government
- Operation New Hope Inc — 13% of income from government
- Florida Dream Center 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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