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Lawrence & Isabel Barnett Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Lawrence & Isabel Barnett Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$594k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$262k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$6.6MHealth$3.2MInternational$460kArts & Culture$215kYouth Development$35kCrime & Legal$30kHousing & Shelter$20kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $254k
  • $250k+1 grant · $262k
$30,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$262,000
ALS ASSOCIATION$200,000
PARTNERS ASIA$54,000
EMILY KRZYZEWSKI CENTER$30,000
DENVER ART MUSEUM$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$20,000
RYE COUNTRY DAY SCOOL$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON: $25k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $709k → 8%PARTNER'S ASIA: $58k → 10%ALS ASSOCIATION: $501k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $40k → 14%EMILY KRZYZEWSKI CENTER: $50k → 11%DENVER ART MUSEUM: $35k → 12%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 15%BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON: $25k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $688k → 8%PARTNER'S ASIA: $56k → 10%ALS ASSOCIATION: $501k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $40k → 14%EMILY KRZYZEWSKI CENTER: $35k → 11%DENVER ART MUSEUM: $25k → 12%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 15%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $680k → 8%PARTNERS ASIA: $54k → 10%ALS ASSOCIATION: $500k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $40k → 14%EMILY KRZYZEWSKI CENTER: $30k → 11%DENVER ART MUSEUM: $25k → 12%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $680k → 8%PARTNERS ASIA: $54k → 10%ALS ASSOCIATION: $500k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $40k → 14%EMILY KRZYZEWSKI CENTER: $25k → 11%DENVER ART MUSEUM: $25k → 12%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $666k → 8%PARTNERS ASIA: $54k → 10%ALS ASSOCIATION: $500k → 14%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $425k → 8%PARTNERS ASIA: $50k → 10%ALS ASSOCIATION: $200k → 14%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $262k → 8%PARTNER'S ASIA: $46k → 10%ALS ASSOCIATION: $100k → 14%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $121k → 8%PARTNER'S ASIA: $45k → 10%ALS ASSOCIATION: $100k → 14%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $75k → 8%PARTNER'S ASIA: $43k → 10%USC MARSHALL SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $86k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $86k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $86k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $86k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $66k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $45k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

MI
NY
MA
OH
CA
CO
MD
NC
DC
TX
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 15 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
10

Total granted

$4.6M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+36%

Still filing today

80%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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

  • AL
    AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +122%
  • PA
    Partners Asia
    9× · 2017–2025 · $460k · revenue +19%
  • NY
    New York University
    7× · 2017–2023 · $250k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue +36%
  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • TM
    THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -89%
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.

1
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
2
Lehigh University

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…

Education
3
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
4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
5
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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6
Western New England University

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…

Education
7
Occidental College

See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…

Education
8
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
9
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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10
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
Long Island University

To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Menlo School; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Waystation. 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

21 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. 21 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $4,325,366 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $550,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIANew York University: $250,000 · Education+5 more: $177,000 · EducationAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $2,918,200 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS A…+2 more: $35,000 · HealthPartners Asia: $460,151 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUM: $215,000 · Arts & CultureUniversity of Michigan: $200,000 · OtherLOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL: $65,000 · OtherSTANFORD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $40,000 · OtherUSC GOULD SCHOOL OF LAW: $30,000 · OtherOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · OtherMENLO SCHOOL: $24,180 · Other+3 more: $21,462 · OtherEMILY KRZYZEWSKI CENTER INC: $175,000 · Recreation & SportsHAROLD ROBINSON FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $20,000 · PhilanthropyWILDLIFE WAYSTATION: $2,500 · Animals
Education$6,302,366Health$2,953,200Arts & Culture$675,151Other$405,642Recreation & Sports$175,000Youth Development$35,000Philanthropy$20,000Animals$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $4,325,366 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $2,918,200 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $550,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPartners Asia: $460,151 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetNew York University: $250,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $215,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $200,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetEMILY KRZYZEWSKI CENTER INC: $175,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHAROLD ROBINSON FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetRYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $27,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMENLO SCHOOL: $24,180 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GUIDANCE CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLE LYCEE FRANCAIS DE LOS ANGELES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE WAYSTATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
  • Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds Partners Asia ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds EMILY KRZYZEWSKI CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds HAROLD ROBINSON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MENLO SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds THE GUIDANCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds LE LYCEE FRANCAIS DE LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds WILDLIFE WAYSTATION ↗

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA13.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Lawrence & Isabel Barnett Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lawrence & Isabel Barnett Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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