· Private foundation
James Purdy Barrow 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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St John's Episcopal School | $100,000 |
| Robert E Lee Academy | $100,000 |
| University of S Carolina School of | $40,000 |
| Salvation Army Georgetown | $25,000 |
| Alcuin School | $25,000 |
| The Living Church Foundation | $25,000 |
| The Hockaday School | $15,400 |
| Smith Medical Clinic | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 64% of James Purdy Barrow Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 29% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 85%.
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 +13% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LALEE ACADEMY OF BISHOPVILLE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $800k · revenue +67%
- ASALCUIN SCHOOL3× · 2022–2025 · $125k · revenue +13%
- SMSMITH MEDICAL CLINIC INC2× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +15%
Funded once
University of South Carolina Educational Foundationone grant, 2024 · $2.0M · revenue +0%- THTexas Health Resources Foundationone grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue 0%
- COCOLLEGE OF NEW ROCHELLEone grant, 2018 · $1.0M
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…
Bullis school provides a student-centered balanced experience in academics, arts, athletics and community service. bullis uniquely prepares all students to become caring citizens and creative, critical thinkers who will thrive in…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 33 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 University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds Texas Health Resources Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF NEW ROCHELLE ↗
- Who funds LEE ACADEMY OF BISHOPVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds ALCUIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EVERY AVENUE ↗
- Who funds LUMIN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Living Church Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds SMITH MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HOCKADAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BUTTERFLIES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC NATCHEZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Nexus Recovery Center Incorporated ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw · The Rosewood Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James Purdy Barrow Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James Purdy Barrow Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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