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J K Barker 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $119k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOHN THE BAPTIST GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $19,250 |
| OMAHA WORLD-HERALD GOODFELLOWS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SERVING SENIORS | $10,000 |
| DISCALCED CARMELITE NUNS | $10,000 |
| GOLDEN RETRIVEVER RESCUE IN NEBRASKA | $10,000 |
| KITCHENS FOR GOOD | $10,000 |
| ELDER HELP OF SAN DIEGO | $10,000 |
| RADIO TALKING BOOK SERVICE | $10,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA | $10,000 |
| DISCONNECT COLLECTIVE INC | $10,000 |
| SCIENCE DELIVERED | $8,000 |
| OPEN DOOR MISSION | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $172k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DDONORSCHOOSEORG9× · 2017–2025 · $62k · revenue +24%
- EOELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO6× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +31%
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $55k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $15k
ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +32%- KLKATHYS LEGACY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.
See schedule orancho coastal is dedicated to the rescue and shelter of abandoned companion animals. it encourages adoptions into loving homes and provides educational and community outreach programs designed to enhance the human-animal…
The humane society of scott county provides humane care for all lost, abandoned and unwanted pets in scott county, to adopt these pets to caring, responsible, life-long homes, and to educate the community about responsible pet ownership.
Silicon valley pet project (svpp) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to saving local at-risk shelter pets through rescue, community involvement and education.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Vincent De Paul Village Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hooves & Paws Rescue of the Heartland. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 56 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE DELIVERED ↗
- Who funds FILM STREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds SERVING SENIORS ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE IN NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KITCHENS FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds RADIO TALKING BOOK SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BEDTIME INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds LIONS TIGERS AND BEARS ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES FUND ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Hawks Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · The Country Friends · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Oliver & Ferrol Barklage Foundation
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 J K Barker 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.
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.
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