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Evelyn S and K E Barrett Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Evelyn S and K E Barrett Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.3M
Granted FY2026still arriving
81
Grants FY2026still arriving
24
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$1.2MEducation$628kHuman Services$425kFood & Nutrition$386kHealth$361kYouth Development$238kReligion$174kArts & Culture$111kOther$0
02FY2026 · 81 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k5 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k63 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
$20,000
Median grant
24
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Good Shepherd Food Bank$200,000
Unicef USA$125,000
The Lunchbox Fund$100,000
Pine Tree Society$100,000
Mercy Ships$100,000
Episcopal Relief and Development$75,000
The Barbara Bush Children's Hospita$75,000
The Childrens Museum of New Hampshi$75,000
Little Wishes$60,000
Gamers Outreach Foundation$50,000
Flying Kites Inc$50,000
Susan L Curtis Charitable Foundatio$50,000
Maine Seacoast Mission$50,000
Project Suma Inc$45,000
Saloni Heart Foundation$40,000
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 (FY20–26, $858k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Family Services of the Merrimack Va: $20k → 10%The Dwelling Place: $10k → 7%Covenant to Care for Children: $10k → 11%The Cove Center for Grieving Childr: $5k → 12%Healing Hands of Joy: $10k → 10%Project Sweet Peas: $25k → 7%Tears Foundation: $10k → 9%Haven Violence Prevention Services: $25k → 5%Grahamtastic Connection: $30k → 9%Area Interfaith Outreach: $20k → 11%Family Services of the Merrimack Va: $10k → 10%Covenant to Care for Children: $8k → 11%Project Sweet Peas: $20k → 7%Gather: $20k → 5%Webster House: $10k → 7%Grahamtastic Connection: $30k → 9%Area Interfaith Outreach: $15k → 11%Covenant to Care for Children: $8k → 11%Cove Center for Grieving Children I: $6k → 12%Project Sweet Peas: $10k → 7%Haven Violence Prevention Services: $15k → 5%Grahamtastic Connection: $18k → 9%Area Interfaith Outreach: $10k → 11%Project Sweet Peas: $10k → 7%Grahamtastic Connection: $10k → 9%The Children's Room: $30k → 8%Rise Above Foundation Inc: $20k → 11%Project Sweet Peas: $10k → 7%Gather: $10k → 5%Grahamtastic Connection: $10k → 9%The Children's Room: $25k → 8%Rise Above Foundation Inc: $10k → 11%LearningWorks: $8k → 7%The Children's Room: $10k → 8%Rise Above Foundation Inc: $8k → 11%Maine Needs Inc: $8k → 7%Grahamtastic Connection: $6k → 9%LearningWorks: $20k → 7%Covenant House: $10k → 17%Episcopal Relief and Development: $75k → 17%Episcopal Relief and Development: $75k → 17%Episcopal Relief and Development: $20k → 17%Preble Street: $20k → 7%Episcopal Relief and Development: $20k → 17%Episcopal Relief and Development: $20k → 17%Episcopal Relief and Development: $19k → 17%Covenant House: $50k → 17%Preble Street: $10k → 7%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

ME
NH
WA
ID
MN
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
NM
NC
DC
AL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 28% of Evelyn S and K E Barrett Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 51% of the giving stays in ME; by stated purpose, 44%.

Evelyn S and K E Barrett Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 38% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 66 repeat orgs$929k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

66 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2026, 20 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
21

Total granted

$4.9M
$490k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
0%

Still filing today

95%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $439k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
InternationalHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • PT
    PINE TREE SOCIETY INC
    6× · 2020–2026 · $250k · revenue +85%
  • ER
    EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT
    7× · 2020–2026 · $249k · revenue +54%
  • TL
    THE LUNCHBOX FUND
    5× · 2022–2026 · $238k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    one grant, 2025 · $100k · revenue +21%
  • B
    BABY2BABYgraduated
    one grant, 2025 · $100k · revenue +463%
  • GF
    GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2025 · $100k · revenue 0%
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
GoodWeave International

GoodWeave works to stop child and forced labor in global supply chains. Permanently.

International
2
Yours Humanly

Yours Humanly (YH) transforms the lives of children in need around the world by providing access to quality education and equitable resources. Through its two flagship initiatives, Coloring Futures and Bridging Gaps, YH has completed 34…

Education
3
Haiti Babi

Haiti Babi is a not for profit social enterprise that employs mothers in Haiti to knit and crochet high quality artisanal baby products. One in ten children in Haiti lives in an orphanage and 80% of those children have living parents who…

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4
Onechild Global

One child global's mission is to advocate for children in hard places and provide holistic care so they have hope and thrive. onechild global's 355 hope centers provide holistic child development progress in nineteen countries.

International
5
Whole Child International

Whole Child International promotes positive developmental outcomes for children through child protection systems strengthening and improving the quality of care for children in low- and middle-income countries.

Youth Development
6
Earthchildren Rescue Incorporated

Earthchildren builds sustainable cities and communities in dark and hard to reach places with a focus on vulnerable women and orphaned children. we create programs that deliver holistic and balanced services including learning centers and…

International
7
Human Rights for Kids

Human Rights for Kids is an international non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights for children. We use an integrated, multi-faceted approach which consists of research & public education, coalition…

International
8
Street Child Us

Street Child's vision is a world in which all children are safe, in school and learning. We believe that education is not only a fundamental human right but the surest pathway out of poverty, and that schools should be a site of safety as…

International
9
Splash International

The mission of Splash International and its subsidiaries is to ensure clean water for children. Splash partners with governments and local organizations to deliver sustainable water, sanitation, hygiene, and menstrual health programs in…

Environment
10
Zoe Empowers

Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…

International
11
Empower African Children

To create transformative and globally connected learning experiences, preparing orphaned and vulnerable children for a lifetime of influence.

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12
Speak Up for the Poor

Speak Up exists to transform the world on behalf of the poor. Our mission is to create a new reality for girls in poverty. We work toward this goal through educational programs support of safe homes and practical legal work.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children; the most unlike its peers is Piscataquis Regional Food Center. 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

107 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 107 of the 123 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
107/107
Grantees still filing
72/107
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $285,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFMercy Ships International: $222,000 · InternationalMercy Ships InternationalSafe Passage: $214,500 · InternationalSafe PassageWORLD VISION INC: $140,000 · InternationalWORLD VISION INCFLYING KITES INC: $127,500 · InternationalFLYING KITES INCSave The Children Federation Inc: $100,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation I…Project Suma Inc: $100,000 · InternationalProject Suma IncBE LIKE BRIT FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 · InternationalHOPE WALKS INC: $70,000 · InternationalHELP THE HELPLESS: $57,634 · International+12 more: $229,500 · International+12 moreEPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $248,500 · Human ServicesEPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DE…THE LUNCHBOX FUND: $238,000 · Human ServicesTHE LUNCHBOX FUNDLITTLE WISHES: $112,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE WISHESGrahamtastic Connection: $103,500 · Human ServicesGrahamtastic ConnectionProject Sweet Peas: $75,000 · Human ServicesProject Sweet PeasThe Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children: $65,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $60,000 · Human ServicesAREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH: $45,000 · Human Services+13 more: $281,000 · Human Services+13 moreMaine Seacoast Mission: $147,000 · OtherMaine Seacoast MissionBarbara Bush Children's Hospital: $135,000 · OtherBarbara Bush Children's Hos…BABY2BABY: $100,000 · OtherBABY2BABYEVKIDS INC: $77,500 · OtherThe Barbara Bush Children's Hospita: $75,000 · OtherBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC: $55,000 · OtherSALONI HEART FOUNDATION: $60,000 · OtherWATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL: $60,000 · OtherEDUCATION AND HOPE INC: $50,000 · OtherFAR AWAY FRIENDS INC: $59,000 · OtherSAHA GLOBAL INC: $60,000 · OtherThe Susan L Curtis Foundation: $50,000 · Other+40 more: $535,200 · Other+40 morePINE TREE SOCIETY INC: $250,000 · EducationPINE TREE…MY STUFF BAGS FOUNDATION: $65,000 · EducationMY STUFF …RAZIAS RAY OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $44,000 · EducationRAZIAS RA…The Foundation for Tomorrow Inc: $39,100 · EducationThe Found…COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION: $35,000 · EducationCOOPERATI…READ TO A CHILD INC: $30,000 · EducationREAD TO A…LEAP for Education Inc: $30,000 · EducationLEAP for …ALEXANDRIA TUTORING CONSORTIUM INC: $23,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationGood Shepherd Food Bank: $307,500 · Food & NutritionBE KIND SAN ANTONIO INC: $40,000 · Food & NutritionLocker Project: $35,000 · Food & NutritionEND 68 HOURS OF HUNGER: $15,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $10,000 · Food & NutritionLITERATIONS CORP: $105,000 · Youth DevelopmentGAMERS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC: $76,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $70,500 · Youth DevelopmentMy Place Teen Center Inc: $37,500 · Youth DevelopmentA LEG TO STAND ON INC: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentConfiKids Inc: $30,000 · Youth Development+4 more: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $175,500 · Arts & CultureGLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN: $100,000 · Arts & CultureSHAREBABY INC: $55,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
International$1,631,134Human Services$1,228,000Other$1,463,700Education$526,100Food & Nutrition$407,500Youth Development$394,000Arts & Culture$335,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $307,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $285,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPINE TREE SOCIETY INC: $250,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetEPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $248,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LUNCHBOX FUND: $238,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetMercy Ships International: $222,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Passage: $214,500 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $175,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetMaine Seacoast Mission: $147,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $140,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLYING KITES INC: $127,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLITTLE WISHES: $112,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetLITERATIONS CORP: $105,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetGrahamtastic Connection: $103,500 over 6y, 10% of budgetProject Suma Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBE LIKE BRIT FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetEVKIDS INC: $77,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetGAMERS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC: $76,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetProject Sweet Peas: $75,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $70,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetHOPE WALKS INC: $70,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children: $65,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMY STUFF BAGS FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSAHA GLOBAL INC: $60,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL: $60,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSALONI HEART FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetFAR AWAY FRIENDS INC: $59,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetHELP THE HELPLESS: $57,634 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHAREBABY INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEDUCATION AND HOPE INC: $50,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetAREA INTERFAITH OUTREACH: $45,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBE KIND SAN ANTONIO INC: $40,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetHAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Foundation for Tomorrow Inc: $39,100 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetRISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMy Place Teen Center Inc: $37,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGLOBAL PEARLS INC: $35,700 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLocker Project: $35,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetA LEG TO STAND ON INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC: $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREAD TO A CHILD INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLEAP for Education Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPREBLE STREET: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGather: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEARNINGWORKS: $27,500 over 2y, 0.7% 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.

Bangor Savings Bank F…Maine Community Found…Agnes M Lindsay TrustAmerican Tower Corpor…Boston Foundation IncSimmons Foundation - …Sam L Cohen FoundationDavis Family Foundati…Eastern Bank Foundati…Machias Savings Bank …Fisher Charitable Fou…John T Gorman Foundat…
Bangor Savings Bank FoundationME28.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Covenant to Care for Children Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Rise Above Foundation Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Leap for Education Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Evkids Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get 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.
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How do I get to Evelyn S and K E Barrett Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Evelyn S and K E Barrett Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 123 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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