· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 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 +30% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…
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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…
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…
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…
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Mills college is an independent liberal arts college for women and gender nonbinary students, with graduate programs for all genders. the college educates students to think critically and communicate responsibly and effectively, to accept…
Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 44 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 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 COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Community Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- 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 THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES CAPITOL HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARCHIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Peter K Barker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peter K Barker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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