· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $119k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOHN THE BAPTIST GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $19,250 |
| RADIO TALKING BOOK SERVICE | $10,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA | $10,000 |
| DISCALCED CARMELITE NUNS | $10,000 |
| OMAHA WORLD-HERALD GOODFELLOWS | $10,000 |
| DISCONNECT COLLECTIVE INC | $10,000 |
| SERVING SENIORS | $10,000 |
| GOLDEN RETRIVEVER RESCUE IN NEBRASKA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ELDER HELP OF SAN DIEGO | $10,000 |
| KITCHENS FOR GOOD | $10,000 |
| SCIENCE DELIVERED | $8,000 |
| OPEN DOOR MISSION | $7,000 |
| OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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
How this is measured
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%- HHHOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -1%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 56 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BEDTIME INC ↗
- Who funds KITCHENS FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds RADIO TALKING BOOK SERVICE 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization J K Barker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J K Barker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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