· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +39% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 47 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 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 ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jmr Barker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jmr Barker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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