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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 FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0171% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20202025.

Arts & Culture$220kEducation$115kHealth$54kHuman Services$6kAnimals$1kOther$163k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$600
Median grant
5
States reached
$757k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN DIEGO AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM$50,000
SAN DIEGO NICE GUYS INC$5,000
TEXAS TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$2,500
AGC EDUCATIONAL & RESEARCH FOUNDATION$600
HONORARY DEPUTY SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY$500
CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO$500
HAWAII ALL STARS RAINBOW FOUNDATION$300
SENIOR VETERAN INC$255
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%QUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO: $500 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$314k · 7 repeat orgs$239k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
17

Total granted

$314k
$233k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
0%

Still filing today

71%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsOther

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

  • US
    UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $63k · revenue +45%
  • BP
    Balboa Park Committee of 100
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +71%
  • AE
    AGC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $2k · revenue +135%

Funded once

  • EI
    ELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +142%
  • GH
    Grossmont Hospital Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • NB
    NATIONAL BLACK CONTRACTORS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2024 · $44k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Building Industry Association of San Diego

The mission of the building industry association of san diego is to proactively promote a positive business environment for the land development, home building and commercial development industry throughout san diego county.

2
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
3
San Diego Charitable Real Estate Foundation

See schedule o.the exempt purpose of san diego charitable real estate foundation is to support san diego foundation in its mission to promote and increase responsible and effective philanthropy by accepting, managing and marketing real…

Community Improvement
4
San Diego Housing Federation

The Federation brings together representatives of affordable housing community development corporations with others interested in the development and management of housing for low and moderate income persons in San Diego County to mutually…

Education
5
San Diego County Bar Association

The mission of the san diego county bar association is to be the representative of the san diego county legal profession, serving the prblic and the profession by enhancing the legal system and promoting justice, professional excellence,…

6
San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation

To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.

Education
7
Associated Students of San Diego State University

To support the social, recreational, cultural and education programs and facilities, both on campus and in the community, and to advocate for student interests, provide leadership opportunities and participate in shared governance.

8
Forever Balboa Park

To sustain, envision, and enhance Balboa Park for all in partnership with the City of San Diego and in collaboration with other organizations in the Park and the community. Our vision for the Park is to maintain and enhance its stature as…

Religion
9
San Diego Diplomacy Council

Programmed and coordinated visits to san diego by international visitors and escorts, working in association with appropriate united states government agencies and the global ties u.s. network.

Community Improvement
10
San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council Afl-Cio

The Labor Council offers an avenue for local unions to come together as one group.

11
San Diego Municipal Employees Assn

The san diego municipal employees association (sdmea) is dedicated to being a strong and effective advocate for san diego city employees. sdmea is united to improve employees' standard of living and promote their fair treatment by…

12
San Diego Double Ten Committee
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego. 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

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
7/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAN DIEGO AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM — $210,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUMBalboa Park Committee of 100 — $10,000 · Arts & CultureELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INC — $50,000 · OtherELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INCUC SAN DIEGO HEALTH SYSTEM (LIFESHARING) — $30,000 · OtherUC SAN DIEGO HEALTH SYSTEM (LIFES…SAN DIEGO AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM BALBOA PARK — $25,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM BALBO…Individual grant recipient — $21,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO — $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO+14 more — $26,155 · Other+14 moreUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $62,500 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONNATIONAL BLACK CONTRACTORS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $44,000 · EducationNATIONAL BLACK CONTRACT…TEXAS TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $6,000 · Education+1 more — $2,500 · EducationGrossmont Hospital Foundation — $50,000 · HealthGrossmont …MAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION — $3,500 · HealthMAUI HEALT…QUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO — $500 · Human ServicesZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $1,400 · Animals
Arts & Culture$220,000Other$162,655Education$115,000Health$53,500Human Services$5,500Animals$1,400

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetGrossmont Hospital Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBalboa Park Committee of 100 — $10,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetTEXAS TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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
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.

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.

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

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 Douglas E & Nancy J Barnhart Charitable 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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