· Private foundation
Craig and Barbara Barrett Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $347k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $490k
- $250k+2 grants · $605k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON | $330,000 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $275,000 |
| BASIS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC | $180,000 |
| USS ARIZONA LEGACY FOUNDATION | $160,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA | $50,000 |
| KISKI SCHOOL | $33,500 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN POPS ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| SI SE PUEDE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ARIZONA INTERSCHOLASTIC ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| HORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| SCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST | $23,250 |
| ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER | $20,000 |
| GLF GLOBAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Craig and Barbara Barrett Foundation’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.
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.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 13 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k 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
- HAHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +12%
- BCBASIS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $889k · revenue +19%
- CICARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON5× · 2020–2024 · $765k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- HRHUMAN RIGHTS FIRSTone grant, 2021 · $180k · revenue -45%
- NGNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $44k · revenue +33%
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $26k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Founded in 1780, the american academy of arts and sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together "to…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To celebrate excellence and cultivate opportunity in pk-12th grade arizona public education.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…
The university of arizona foundation is committed to supporting and enhancing the vision, mission and values of the university of arizona through the development and management of private support.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Science Center and the most unlike its peers is Uss Arizona Legacy Foundation. 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 46 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.
68 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 68 of the 105 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 HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds BASIS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds TRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds USS ARIZONA LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA INTERSCHOLASTIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN POPS ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds GLF GLOBAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE KISKI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST INC ↗
- Who funds AIR & SPACE FORCES AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Firewheel STEM Institute ↗
- Who funds COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Montana State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds U S-UKRAINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The American-Scandinavian Foundation ↗
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: Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Helios Education Foundation · Burton Family Foundation · The Kemper & Ethel Marley Fdn · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Arizona Cardinals Foundation · American Express Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Craig and Barbara Barrett 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.
- Move United — 16% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% 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.