· Private foundation
Peter K Barker 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $185k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUR LADY OF MT CARMEL CHURCH | $75,000 |
| CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE | $60,000 |
| PEBBLE BEACH COMPANY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| J PAUL GETTY TRUST | $25,000 |
| HUNTINGTON LIBRARY | $12,500 |
| CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $10,000 |
| MONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOC | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA BARBARA | $5,000 |
| DEL MONTE FOREST CONSERVANCY | $2,500 |
| PEBBLE BEACH COMPANY FOUNDATION | $1,470 |
| SANTA BARBARA ART MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| TOGETHER IN MISSION LOS ANGELES | $1,000 |
| ST PATRICK'S SCHOOL CARIBAD CA | $1,000 |
| MONTECITO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CHP FOUNDATION CALIFORNIA | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +30% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 13 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- PBPebble Beach Company Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $307k · revenue +15%
- TJTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST6× · 2020–2025 · $149k · revenue +163%
- HEHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY5× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- NPNAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +53%
- SBSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundationone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -52%
- WGWORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -120%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union and the most unlike its peers is Del Monte Forest Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 72 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 44 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 Pebble Beach Company Foundation ↗
- Who funds Claremont McKenna College ↗
- Who funds THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST ↗
- Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Community Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
- Who funds DEL MONTE FOREST CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Montecito Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds WORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASA DEL HERRERO ↗
- Who funds CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES CAPITOL HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARCHIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
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 Spivey Family Foundation Inc · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Peter K 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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