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Douglas E & Nancy J Barnhart Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (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. Its 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
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.
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
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

  • 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

  • GH
    Grossmont Hospital Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +16%
  • EI
    ELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +142%
  • NB
    NATIONAL BLACK CONTRACTORS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2024 · $44k
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
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.

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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,…

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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.

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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.

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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…

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12
San Diego Double Ten Committee
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc San Diego Foundation; 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 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. 18 of the 30 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
8/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetCOASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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
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 San Diego Foundat…Jewish Community Foun…Sempra FoundationThe Conrad Prebys Fou…Rancho Santa Fe Found…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Douglas E & Nancy J Barnhart Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Douglas E & Nancy J Barnhart Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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, 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 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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