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Jmr Barker Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $525k
- $250k+7 grants · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $800,000 |
| NEWTON-WELLESLEY HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $310,000 |
| SPOONFULS INC | $290,000 |
| AUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $270,000 |
| HEAL UKRAINE GROUP CO MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $250,392 |
| BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC | $250,000 |
| GLOUCESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $205,000 |
| TREMONT SCHOOL | $190,000 |
| TIDELINES INSTITUTE | $70,000 |
| KIMBALL UNION ACADEMY | $60,000 |
| MCLEAN HOSPITAL | $40,000 |
| LONE STAR CIRCLE OF CARE | $20,000 |
| OPEN DOORCAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC | $10,000 |
| ROCKPORT MUSIC INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $790k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL4× · 2018–2021 · $4.0M · revenue +48%- AAAUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +245%
THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +39%
Funded once
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $250k
- RGRED GATE FARM EDUCATION CENTER (KISTNER FOUNDATION INC)one grant, 2022 · $200k
- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Education and Research
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
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…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University and the most unlike its peers is Prison University Project Inc Dba Mount Tamalpais College. 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 47 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 NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds Gloucester Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SPOONFULS ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds E3 ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COTTONWOOD GULCH EXPEDITIONS ↗
- Who funds LOCAL FOOD HUB INC ↗
- Who funds LONE STAR CIRCLE OF CARE ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds KIMBALL UNION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KISTNER FOUNDATION INC RED GATE FARM ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS ARC INC ↗
- Who funds WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COALITION OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Charleston Collegiate School ↗
- Who funds TIDELINES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds PRISON UNIVERSITY PROJECT INC DBA MOUNT TAMALPAIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
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 Applied Materials Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Webber Family Foundation · St David's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Texas Mutual Insurance Company · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Jmr 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Windham & Windsor Housing Trust Inc — 100% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Rockport Music Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boston Lyric Opera Company — 3% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Endicott College — 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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