Skip to content
Bob Barker Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Bob Barker Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
82
Grants FY2024still arriving
31
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$3.0MHuman Services$797kEducation$648kHealth$612kReligion$438kEmployment$393kYouth Development$209kHousing & Shelter$146kOther$0
02FY2024 · 82 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $110k
  • $10k–50k65 grants · $1.1M
$14,000
Median grant
31
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Men of Valor$25,000
Campbell University$25,000
Second Street Second Chances Inc$25,000
Bridges to Life$25,000
Hudson Link for Higher Education$25,000
PIVOT$25,000
A Cut Above the Rest$25,000
Pardoned by Christ$25,000
Triangle Family Services$25,000
Oxford House$25,000
Mount Tamalpais College$25,000
Clean State Utah$25,000
Turn 2 U Inc$21,000
RISE$21,000
Reaching Out from Within$21,000
02The need
03

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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AROUET FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%Adelphoi USA: $10k → 10%OUTREACH CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESEARCH: $10k → 13%Ardella's House: $14k → 22%HOUR CHILDREN INC: $25k → 13%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN: $20k → 15%FLORIDA DREAM CENTER: $10k → 12%STEPUP DURHAM: $20k → 11%Samaritan Colony Inc: $13k → 23%Second Chance Center: $20k → 10%SOUTH STREET MINISTRIES INC: $15k → 13%RIDGE HOUSE: $20k → 10%The First 72: $18k → 23%INNER COUNTY OUTREACH: $10k → 7%REVIVE MINISTRIES: $17k → 12%The Prisoner's Hope: $15k → 15%HOUR CHILDREN: $25k → 13%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN: $20k → 15%LIFELINE GLOBAL MINISTRIES: $25k → 16%StepUp Durham: $18k → 11%RIDGE HOUSE: $10k → 10%REVIVE MINISTRIES: $15k → 12%The Prisoner's Hope: $12k → 15%Hour Children: $16k → 13%Resonance Center for Women Inc: $12k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY-ST JOSEPH: $10k → 15%MEPHIBOSHETH PROJECT INC: $15k → 18%AWANA LIFELINE MINISTRIES: $10k → 14%DRIVE TO WORK: $10k → 9%THE PRISONER'S HOPE: $10k → 15%HOUR CHILDREN: $15k → 13%Stand in the Gap: $10k → 15%COMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES INC: $16k → 14%THE PRISONER'S HOPE: $10k → 15%TURNING POINT ALCOHOL AND DRUG EDUCATION PROGRAMINC: $20k → 14%HOUR CHILDREN: $12k → 13%Justice Forward: $15k → 16%STAND IN THE GAP MINISTRIES: $10k → 15%Connecting Communities & Families Inc: $10k → 13%Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Education Program: $10k → 14%7More: $13k → 16%DREAM CENTER FOUNDATION: $18k → 14%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NC: $25k → 8%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NC: $25k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $30k → 8%Step Up Ministry: $25k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $20k → 8%COMMUNITY SUCCESS INITIATIVE: $20k → 8%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

ME
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 88 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

88
142

Total granted

$4.4M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+15%

Still filing today

83%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $682k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesEducationHealthReligionEmploymentOther
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

  • BT
    BRIDGES TO LIFE
    5× · 2017–2024 · $151k · revenue +35%
  • CC
    Changed Choices Inc
    5× · 2017–2023 · $144k · revenue +48%
  • RA
    RE-ENTRY ALLIANCE PENSACOLA
    4× · 2017–2023 · $122k · revenue +418%

Funded once

  • LR
    LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +98%
  • SR
    Simeon Resource and Development Center for Men Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -1%
  • CU
    CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY - PRISON EDUCATION PROGRAM
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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
Restorative Transitions Inc

Re-entry Program in Durham NC

Crime & Legal
2
The WorkWell Partnership

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…

Education
3
Recovery Career Services

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…

Human Services
4
Scores Reentry

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…

Human Services
5
People Advancing Reintegration Inc

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…

Employment
6
Elevated Community Development Corporation

Training and jobs for exoffenders

Employment
7
Redemption Road Ministries

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…

Religion
8
Remnant Ministries Inc

Restore inmates and those addicted back in to society

Religion
9
Bryant Homes Inc

Transitional Living Services for ex-offe

—
10
Bridges of America the Orlando Bridge Inc

Drug and alcohol rehabilitation and counseling in connection with job training and placement services

Crime & Legal
11
Empowering Men and Women on the Move for Re-Entry Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
12
Hope for Prisoners Inc

Helping men, women, and young adults successfully reenter the workforce, their families, and our community.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Incarceration Assoc Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

198 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. 198 of the 279 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
58
Early backer (in before they grew)
190/198
Grantees still filing
129/198
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC: $116,000 · OtherTRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $104,500 · OtherThe Center for Community Transitions: $82,500 · Other+83 more: $2,034,645 · Other+83 moreBRIDGES TO LIFE: $151,238 · Crime & LegalBRIDGES TO LIFEChanged Choices Inc: $144,000 · Crime & LegalChanged Choices IncRE-ENTRY ALLIANCE PENSACOLA: $122,338 · Crime & LegalRE-ENTRY ALLIANCE PENSACOLAARISE COLLECTIVE INC: $110,000 · Crime & LegalARISE COLLECTIVE INCPardoned by Christ: $95,000 · Crime & LegalPardoned by ChristMEN OF VALOR: $75,000 · Crime & LegalTENNESSEE PRISON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC: $75,000 · Crime & LegalJUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA: $60,000 · Crime & Legal+36 more: $929,450 · Crime & Legal+36 moreHOUR CHILDREN INC: $93,450 · Human ServicesHOUR CHILDREN IN…STEPUP MINISTRY: $85,000 · Human ServicesSTEPUP MINISTRYCommunity Success Initiative Inc: $76,500 · Human ServicesCommunity Succes…THE PRISONERS HOPE INC: $54,360 · Human ServicesTHE PRISONERS HO…Resonance Center for Women Inc: $52,000 · Human ServicesResonance Center…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesSTEPUP DURHAM: $38,000 · Human ServicesLIFELINE GLOBAL MINISTRIES: $35,000 · Human Services+22 more: $461,725 · Human Services+22 morePRISON UNIVERSITY PROJECT INC DBA MOUNT TAMALPAIS COLLEGE: $105,000 · EducationPRISON ALLIANCE INC: $95,950 · EducationDEFY VENTURES INC: $89,800 · EducationTENNESSEE HIGHER EDUCATION INITIATIVE INC: $25,000 · EducationHUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC: $25,000 · EducationCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR JUVENILE SERVICES INC: $25,000 · EducationCoalition for Engaged Education: $25,000 · EducationEDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE: $25,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGE: $20,000 · EducationRACINE VOCATIONAL MINISTRY INC: $20,000 · Education+2 more: $28,000 · EducationHEALING TRANSITIONS INC: $86,975 · HealthA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $68,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC: $63,500 · HealthCenter for Conflict Resolution: $46,000 · HealthHAVEN HOUSE INC: $45,000 · HealthTHE MCSHIN FOUNDATION: $38,000 · HealthASCENSA HEALTH INC: $36,000 · HealthGETTING OUT BY GOING IN: $30,000 · Health+6 more: $75,000 · HealthKRISTI OVERTON JOHNSON MINISTRIES: $46,000 · ReligionMen of Valor Inc: $45,000 · ReligionGROUND 40 MINISTRIES: $41,000 · ReligionINSIDE OUT JAIL MINISTRIES: $25,000 · ReligionRECOVERY ALIVE INC: $17,500 · ReligionNortheast of the Well: $15,000 · ReligionSchool for Conversion Inc: $15,000 · ReligionGOD BEHIND BARS INC: $11,000 · ReligionRETURNING HOME INC: $64,400 · EmploymentJOBS FOR LIFE INC: $45,000 · EmploymentGOODWILL OF NORTH GEORGIA INC: $36,500 · EmploymentRISE ACADEMY: $25,000 · EmploymentPhoenix Employment Services of Wilmingto Inc DBA StepUp Wilmington: $16,875 · Employment
Other$2,337,645Crime & Legal$1,762,026Human Services$946,035Education$508,750Health$488,475Religion$215,500Employment$187,775

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetBRIDGES TO LIFE: $151,238 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetChanged Choices Inc: $144,000 over 5y, 9.7% of budgetRE-ENTRY ALLIANCE PENSACOLA: $122,338 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC: $116,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetARISE COLLECTIVE INC: $110,000 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetPRISON UNIVERSITY PROJECT INC DBA MOUNT TAMALPAIS COLLEGE: $105,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $104,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPRISON ALLIANCE INC: $95,950 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetPardoned by Christ: $95,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetHOUR CHILDREN INC: $93,450 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetDEFY VENTURES INC: $89,800 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetHEALING TRANSITIONS INC: $86,975 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSTEPUP MINISTRY: $85,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetThe Center for Community Transitions: $82,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCommunity Success Initiative Inc: $76,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetMEN OF VALOR: $75,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTENNESSEE PRISON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC: $75,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $68,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRETURNING HOME INC: $64,400 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC: $63,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetJUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA: $60,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetOAR of Richmond Inc: $58,450 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetLOUISIANA PAROLE PROJECT INC: $56,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetOFFENDER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $55,900 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetTHE PRISONERS HOPE INC: $54,360 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetResonance Center for Women Inc: $52,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMothers and Their Children Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetFIRST AT BLUE RIDGE INC: $49,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetKRISTI OVERTON JOHNSON MINISTRIES: $46,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetCenter for Conflict Resolution: $46,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetJourney to New Life INC: $45,250 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHAVEN HOUSE INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJOBS FOR LIFE INC: $45,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCommunity Mediation Maryland Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMen of Valor Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetINSPIRATION MINISTRIES INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSUSTAINABLE ALAMANCE: $44,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetGROUND 40 MINISTRIES: $41,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetNETWORK SUPPORT SERVICES INCORPORATED: $40,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOperation New Hope Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJOURNEY OF HOPE INC: $39,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetSTEPUP DURHAM: $38,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE MCSHIN FOUNDATION: $38,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC: $37,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOODWILL OF NORTH GEORGIA INC: $36,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASCENSA HEALTH INC: $36,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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.

The Leon Levine Found…Stand Together Founda…Triangle Community Fo…The Cannon Foundation…RedfTruist Foundation IncCrossroads Fellowship…Blackwell Family Foun…Lonnie & Carol Poole …W Trent Ragland Jr Fo…Gardiner Howland Shaw…Serving USA Inc Fka S…
The Leon Levine FoundationNC22.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 38%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
75report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Bob Barker Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Bob Barker Foundation Inc 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 279 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Bob Barker’s filings →

More from the funding graph

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
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home