How much does John and Daria Barry Foundation give?

John and Daria Barry Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $31,676,791 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does John and Daria Barry Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), Philanthropy (23%), Health (10%).

Who are John and Daria Barry Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Foundation For Excellence in Higher Education ($22M), Inner City Scholarship Fund Inc ($20M), Woodson Center ($11M).

Does John and Daria Barry Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does John and Daria Barry Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as John and Daria Barry Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc, Robin Hood Foundation.

Where is John and Daria Barry Foundation based?

John and Daria Barry Foundation is based in FL.

John and Daria Barry Foundation

John and Daria Barry Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

John and Daria Barry 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.

$32M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$11M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$45MPhilanthropy$21MHealth$9.4MCommunity Improvement$8.5MEnvironment$3.3MHuman Services$1.2MHousing & Shelter$900kInternational$570kOther$0

02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k8 grants · $172k
$50k–250k24 grants · $2.5M
$250k+18 grants · $29M

$110,000

Median grant

States reached

$664M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM	$11,061,712
FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION	$4,543,421
WOODSON CENTER	$2,146,609
INNER-CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND	$1,821,606
GUARDIAN REVIVAL	$1,700,000
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND LETTERS	$1,250,000
GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION	$1,015,725
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI	$1,006,453
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION	$610,484
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND	$600,000
MATER SALVATORIS COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL	$526,850
Individual grant recipient	$500,000
BRILLA NEW JERSEY CHARTER SCHOOL	$500,000
THE AVALON NETWORK	$450,000
ACADEMIC FREEDOM ALLIANCE	$450,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$87M · 41 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$87M

$408k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%

+5%

Still filing today

78%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyHealthPublic BenefitOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

FF
Foundation For Excellence in Higher Education
6× · 2020–2025 · $22M · revenue +22% · 73% of their budget
IC
INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $20M · revenue +18%
GR
GUARDIAN REVIVAL INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $5.3M · revenue +647% · 66% of their budget

Funded once

CO
CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST (PATERSON NJ DIOSE)
one grant, 2021 · $200k
PF
PRINCETONIANS FOR FREE SPEECH
one grant, 2023 · $50k
YU
YALE UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2022 · $50k

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.

04Its field

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.

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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University of New Haven

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…

Education

Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Furman University

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.

Education

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education

The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seton Education Partners; the most unlike its peers is Who Will Go Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 67 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

50/50

Grantees still filing

29/50

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$62,668,175Other$31,533,189Community Improvement$10,755,446Public Benefit$5,980,000Education$5,798,076Environment$3,978,458Human Services$1,908,900

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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY15.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization John and Daria Barry Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Daria Barry Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home