· Private foundation
Raymond & Mary D Barnett Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEFFERSON COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $7,000 |
| NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $4,000 |
| MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| MIDWAY UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| KENTUCKY COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MUMIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE3× · 2023–2025 · $8k · revenue +15%
- SUSPALDING UNIVERSITY INC2× · 2020–2021 · $4k · revenue +4%
- CCCENTRE COLLEGE2× · 2018–2019 · $4k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- JCJEFFERSON COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE-CARROLLTON CAMPUSone grant, 2020 · $8k
- KWKENTUCKY WELDING INSTITUTEone grant, 2019 · $4k
- BCBLUEGRASS COMMUNITY TECHNICAL COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
Excelsior University provides educational opportunity to adult learners with an emphasis on those historically underrepresented in higher education. The University meets students where they are - academically and geographically, offering…
Students are the focus at mcdaniel and providing the ideal learning environment is our goal.
Promoting a commitment to lifelong learning with a foundation in the liberal arts.
A residential, coeducation, undergraduate liberal arts college.
Macalester is a four-year highly-selective liberal arts college.
Lehigh university strives to earn international prominence as a universty of special distinction and provide students with opportunities for success through its integration of teaching, research and service to society.
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
To provide an exceptional undergraduate liberal arts education.
Doane university creates distinctive educational experiences, immersed in the liberal arts, to prepare our students for careers and lives grounded in inquiry, ethics, and a commitment to lead and serve in the global community.
To equip students to think deeply, to act justly, and to live wholeheartedly as christ's agents of renewal in the world. calvin university is a christian academic community dedicated to rigorous intellectual inquiry. students study the…
To provide an experiential liberal arts education.
To transform students for lives of character and service through a christ-centered education.
How this is measured
6 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. 6 of the 30 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.
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Raymond & Mary D Barnett Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Raymond & Mary D Barnett Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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