· Private foundation
Melza M and Frank Theodore Barr 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.
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–50k5 grants · $80k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Glaucoma Research Foundation | $1,000,000 |
| Sustainable Harvest Int'l | $20,000 |
| Wild Earth Allies | $20,000 |
| Raptor Trust | $20,000 |
| Center for Amazon Community Ecology | $10,000 |
| People and Plants International | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of its 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 +35% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GRGLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +74%
- HBHouston Ballet Foundation6× · 2018–2023 · $3.5M · revenue +14%
- TUTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2024 · $600k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of California Davis Healone grant, 2018 · $250k
- TCTHE CALTECH Yone grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue -5%
- NANortheast Area Development Incone grant, 2018 · $14k
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 19 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 CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Houston Ballet Foundation ↗
- Who funds CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds THE CALTECH Y ↗
- Who funds THE RAPTOR TRUST ↗
- Who funds Wild Earth Allies Inc ↗
- Who funds Sustainable Harvest International ↗
- Who funds AIDS Resource Foundation for Children ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds Menil Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AMAZON COMMUNITY ECOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Northeast Area Development Inc ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE & PLANTS INTERNATIONAL 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Melza M and Frank Theodore Barr Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Melza M and Frank Theodore Barr Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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