· Private foundation
The Barbee Family 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNG VOICE OF WASHINGTON DC | $45,000 |
| THE ATLAS NETWORK | $30,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION | $25,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| THE DAVID NETWORK | $15,000 |
| THE POTOMAC SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| YORKTOWN FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC POL | $15,000 |
| THE THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| THE DAKSHANA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COMPETITIVEENTERPRISE INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY | $10,000 |
| EDCHOICE | $5,299 |
| CENTER FOR FREEDOM AND PROSPERITY | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT THOUGHT | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +21% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- TPThe Potomac School8× · 2018–2025 · $256k · revenue +14%
- YVYoung Voices8× · 2018–2025 · $164k · revenue +356%
- FFFoundation for Economic Education Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- HBHospice Brazos Valley Incone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +4%
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2023 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…
Disseminate information and education about pertinent economic, social and governmental topics, via print, web and other media to educate the public about the principles of LIbertarianism.
Advocating for public policies that advance democratic values in the digital age.
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The r street institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public-policy research organization ("think tank"). our mission is to engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government. (continued on…
To provide thoughtful, conservative solutions to the challenges presented by education, workforce, labor and employment issues.
The mission of Freedom Economy is to equip justice and sustainability investors with legal and policy education, tools, and a peer network needed to stand boldly in their values, defend their rights and advance a fair, inclusive and…
To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedomworks Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dakshana Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 32 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 The Potomac School ↗
- Who funds Young Voices ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Economic Education Inc ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds Hospice Brazos Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds DAKSHANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The David Network ↗
- Who funds Center For Freedom and Prosperity ↗
- Who funds PARKVIEW INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds Twin City Mission ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT THOUGHT ↗
- Who funds FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EdChoice Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BASED POLITICS INC ↗
- Who funds THINK FREELY MEDIA ↗
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: Donors Trust Inc · Atlas Economic Research Foundation · Chiavacci Family Foundation · Garvey Kansas Foundation · Charles Koch Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Shell USA Company Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 The Barbee Family 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.