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Douglas E & Nancy J Barnhart Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$60k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$600
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 10
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$757k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Douglas E & Nancy J Barnhart Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$60k63%
FY202410$181k50%
FY202310$149k80%
FY20226$37k83%
FY20214$96k75%
FY20203$31kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$285kEducation$131kHealth$84kHuman Services$11kRecreation & Sports$10kPhilanthropy$5kScience & Tech$3kYouth Development$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
San Diego Automotive Museum$210,00033%
Uc San Diego Foundation$62,50030%
Grossmont Hospital Foundation$50,00011%
Ellis Island Honors Society Inc$50,00019%
National Black Contractors Foundation of America$44,0001n/a
Balboa Park Committee of 100$10,00024%
University of San Diego$10,00010%
Texas Tech Alumni Association$6,00030%
Quilts of Valor Foundation$5,00010%
San Diego Nice Guys Inc$5,0001n/a
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All grantees of Douglas E & Nancy J Barnhart Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
San Diego Automotive Museum$210,00033%
Uc San Diego Foundation$62,50030%
Grossmont Hospital Foundation$50,00011%
Ellis Island Honors Society Inc$50,00019%
National Black Contractors Foundation of America$44,0001n/a
Balboa Park Committee of 100$10,00024%
University of San Diego$10,00010%
Texas Tech Alumni Association$6,00030%
Quilts of Valor Foundation$5,00010%
San Diego Nice Guys Inc$5,0001n/a
Maui Health Foundation$3,50010%
Texas Tech Foundation Inc$2,50010%
San Diego-Imperial Council Boy Scouts of America$2,50010%
Academy of Our Lady of Peace$2,5001n/a
Agc Education and Research Foundation Inc$2,40040%
Zoological Society of San Diego$1,40010%
Peoples Association of Justice Advocates$1,0001n/a
Honorary Deputy Sheriffs Assn of S D County$5001n/a
Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($84k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Douglas E & Nancy J Barnhart Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSan Diego Automotive Museum: $210,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetUc San Diego Foundation: $62,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGrossmont Hospital Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEllis Island Honors Society Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetBalboa Park Committee of 100: $10,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetUniversity of San Diego: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Tech Alumni Association: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetQuilts of Valor Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMaui Health Foundation: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Tech Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Diego-Imperial Council Boy Scouts of America: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAgc Education and Research Foundation Inc: $2,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetZoological Society of San Diego: $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities Diocese of San Diego: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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 San Diego FoundationCA22.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Sempra Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · 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.

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About Douglas E & Nancy J Barnhart Charitable Foundation

How much does Douglas E & Nancy J Barnhart Charitable Foundation give?
Douglas E & Nancy J Barnhart Charitable Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $59,655 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Douglas E & Nancy J Barnhart Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (51%), Education (24%), Health (15%).
Who are Douglas E & Nancy J Barnhart Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: San Diego Automotive Museum ($210k), Uc San Diego Foundation ($63k), Grossmont Hospital Foundation ($50k).
Does Douglas E & Nancy J Barnhart Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Douglas E & Nancy J Barnhart Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Douglas E & Nancy J Barnhart Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego, Sempra Foundation.
Where is Douglas E & Nancy J Barnhart Charitable Foundation based?
Douglas E & Nancy J Barnhart Charitable Foundation is based in CA.

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 30 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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