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Craig and Barbara Barrett Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
57
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$330k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$3.0MScience & Tech$1.6MArts & Culture$949kPublic Benefit$786kCivil Rights$198kInternational$164kEnvironment$140kRecreation & Sports$140kOther$0
02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k32 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $347k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $490k
  • $250k+2 grants · $605k
$5,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$711k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GLF GLOBAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$20,000
ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER$20,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BRCC FUND: $3k → 8%SI SE PUEDE FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%CHILDHELP: $1k → 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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MN
WI
NY
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CA
UT
CO
WV
VA
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AZ
NM
DC
LA
TX
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 7% of Craig and Barbara Barrett Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Craig and Barbara Barrett Foundationlessmore 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 54 repeat orgs$528k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
37

Total granted

$6.5M
$363k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+31%

Still filing today

70%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k 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
EducationArts & CultureInternationalHealthRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitOther
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

  • HA
    HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +12%
  • BC
    BASIS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $889k · revenue +19%
  • CI
    CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON
    5× · 2020–2024 · $765k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • HR
    HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST
    one grant, 2021 · $180k · revenue -45%
  • NG
    NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $44k · revenue +33%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2020 · $26k
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.

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United States Naval Institute

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.

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2
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
3
American Academy of Arts & Sciences

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…

Social Science
4
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

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…

Science & Tech
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
8
Arizona Educational Foundation Inc

To celebrate excellence and cultivate opportunity in pk-12th grade arizona public education.

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9
Augustana College

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…

Education
10
American Geophysical Union

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…

Science & Tech
11
University of Arizona Foundation

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.

Education
12
Lowell Observatory

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…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Science Center; 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.
05the grantee network

68 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/68
Grantees still filing
52/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC: $1,281,230 · EducationHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INCBASIS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $889,000 · EducationBASIS CHARTER SCHOOLS INCCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $475,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR U…USS ARIZONA LEGACY FOUNDATION: $205,000 · EducationUSS ARIZONA LEGACY FOUNDATION+11 more: $271,279 · Education+11 moreTRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC: $602,410 · Arts & CultureTRIGG - C M R…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $155,915 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN I…ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER: $45,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $86,097 · Arts & Culture+8 moreRONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATI: $251,000 · OtherRONALD REAGAN PR…SMITHSONIAN NAT'L NATUAL HISTORY MU: $158,500 · OtherSMITHSONIAN NAT'…AMERICAN POPS ORCHESTRA: $62,000 · OtherAMERICAN POPS OR…FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MONTANA: $50,000 · OtherWildlife Conservation Society: $50,000 · Other+56 more: $427,670 · Other+56 moreCARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON: $765,000 · Science & TechCARNEGIE INST…SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC: $100,000 · Science & TechSOCIETY FOR S…SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: $471,025 · Community ImprovementHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $180,000 · InternationalGLF GLOBAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $50,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA: $50,000 · InternationalU S-UKRAINE FOUNDATION: $21,050 · InternationalThe American-Scandinavian Foundation: $19,250 · InternationalATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $15,000 · International+4 more: $7,350 · InternationalARIZONA INTERSCHOLASTIC ASSOCIATION INC: $125,000 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $124,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $5,350 · Recreation & Sports
Education$3,421,509Arts & Culture$889,422Other$1,049,170Science & Tech$865,000Community Improvement$471,025International$342,650Recreation & Sports$254,350

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC: $1,281,230 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetBASIS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $889,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON: $765,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC: $602,410 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $475,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: $471,025 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUSS ARIZONA LEGACY FOUNDATION: $205,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $180,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $155,915 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA INTERSCHOLASTIC ASSOCIATION INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $124,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $75,974 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN POPS ORCHESTRA: $62,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetGLF GLOBAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $44,205 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KISKI SCHOOL: $33,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST INC: $28,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAIR & SPACE FORCES AID SOCIETY INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFirewheel STEM Institute: $25,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetMontana State University Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetU S-UKRAINE FOUNDATION: $21,050 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe American-Scandinavian Foundation: $19,250 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HEARD MUSEUM: $15,905 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Academic Decathlon Association Inc: $13,500 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetMOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION: $12,575 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHARLIE RUSSELL RIDERS FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTOCK FARM GREATER RAVALLI FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rand Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY LEADERSHIP CORPORATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $7,093 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOVE UNITED: $5,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORICAL LEAGUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetSAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Northern Arizona Inc: $3,905 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTibet Fund Inc: $3,100 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

Arizona Community Fou…Virginia G Piper Char…The Ayco Charitable F…Helios Education Foun…Burton Family Foundat…The Kemper & Ethel Ma…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Arizona Cardinals Fou…American Express Foun…Bny Mellon Charitable…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ18× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Craig and Barbara Barrett Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Craig and Barbara Barrett Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • Move United: 16% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report 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.

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 105 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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