· Private foundation
James M Barnett Jr Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k10 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $453k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLINT RIVERQUARIUM | $200,000 |
| ALBANY MUSEUM OF ART | $152,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| THEATRE ALBANY | $20,000 |
| ANDREW COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| ALBANY STATE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,900 |
| TRUITT MCCONNELL UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| COLUMBUS STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,200 |
| VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,200 |
| JAMES DICK FOUNDATION | $1,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $850 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 27%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 98% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
26 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- FRFLINT RIVERQUARIUM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +27%
- TATHEATRE ALBANY9× · 2017–2025 · $173k · revenue +92%
- ACANDREW COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $117k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- DCDARTON COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
- JAJOHN AND HEATHER SPENCERone grant, 2017 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $4k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berklee College of Music Inc and the most unlike its peers is Flint Riverquarium Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 46 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 FLINT RIVERQUARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALBANY MUSEUM OF ART INCORPORA ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ALBANY ↗
- Who funds ANDREW COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LEE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds TRUETT MCCONNELL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds BREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Samford University ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin International Music Festival ↗
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.
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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 James M Barnett Jr Foundation Inc 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.
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
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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