· Private foundation
The Barbara Picasso Rex 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $8,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $8,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA MUSUEM OF ART | $8,000 |
| PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC | $3,000 |
| GO2 FOR LUNG CANCER (FKA LUNG CANCER ALLIANCE) | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $2,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $2,000 |
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 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 85% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PMPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2018–2024 · $58k · revenue +28%
- PFPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY7× · 2018–2024 · $35k · revenue +7%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +26%
Funded once
Feeding Americaone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +17%- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +7%
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
To make grants to charitable organizations and programs that support the achievement of sexual and reproductive health (srh) of the poor & underprivileged women and others in the asia-pacific and elsewhere.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 16 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Barbara Picasso Rex Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Barbara Picasso Rex Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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