Connecticut · Private foundation
Harry F & Carol H Barnes Family 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.
- $329k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 41
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Harry F & Carol H Barnes Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 41 | $329k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 41 | $347k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $320k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $407k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $359k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $349k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $312k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Learning Centers of Connecticut Inc | $345,000 | 7 | 10% |
| Bristol Hospital Development Foundation Inc | $238,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Snoqualmie Valley Shelter Services | $75,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Casa of Jackson County Inc | $56,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Humane Society of Skagit County | $48,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Connecticut Children's Foundation Inc | $42,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Hartt Inc | $37,500 | 7 | 2% |
| The Family Nurturing Center Rogue Valley Children's Relief Nursery | $35,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Covenant Frontline International | $35,200 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 72 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($669k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Harry F & Carol H Barnes Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 60 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Harry F & Carol H Barnes Family Foundation
- How much does Harry F & Carol H Barnes Family Foundation give?
- Harry F & Carol H Barnes Family Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $328,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 41 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Harry F & Carol H Barnes Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (17%), Environment (17%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are Harry F & Carol H Barnes Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Environmental Learning Centers of Connecticut Inc ($345k), Bristol Hospital Development Foundation Inc ($238k), Snoqualmie Valley Shelter Services ($75k).
- Does Harry F & Carol H Barnes Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harry F & Carol H Barnes Family 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 Harry F & Carol H Barnes Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Main Street Community Foundation Inc, The Sky Bight Foundation Inc, Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc.
- Where is Harry F & Carol H Barnes Family Foundation based?
- Harry F & Carol H Barnes Family Foundation is based in CT.
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