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The Barber 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.

$42k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$320kYouth Development$82kRecreation & Sports$27kReligion$16kHealth$12kPhilanthropy$7kHuman Services$5kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$152k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
URI FOUNDATION$20,000
BUTTON HOLE$10,500
Individual grant recipient$7,500
THE SAINTS ACADEMY$2,500
OUR LADY OF MERCY$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 37% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BOSTON COLLEGE: $4k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUETTS LOWELL: $2k → 8%THE SAINTS ACADEMY: $3k → 10%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MA: $5k → 16%NMOHCFL: $5k → 12%FIARWAYS FOR FREEDOM: $3k → 13%FLYNN J SULLIVAN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP: $3k → 7%ST PAUL'S CHURCH: $5k → 14%KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%MOVE UNITED: $6k → 8%BOSTON COLLEGE: $3k → 7%FAIRWAYS FOR FREEDOM: $3k → 13%KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%FAIRWAYS FOR FREEDOM: $3k → 13%ST JOHN'S PREPARATORY: $8k → 10%FATHERS FOR A CURE: $3k → 14%ST JOHN'S PREPARATORY: $5k → 10%URI FOUNDATION: $55k → 7%ST JOHN'S PREPARATORY: $5k → 10%URI FOUNDATION: $50k → 7%BRYANT UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%ST JOHN'S PREPARATORY: $5k → 10%URI FOUNDATION: $40k → 7%US CHALLENGE CUP: $3k → 14%ST JOHN'S PREPARATORY: $5k → 10%URI FOUNDATION: $36k → 7%WEST WARWICK HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $3k → 7%ST JOHN'S PREPARATORY: $5k → 10%URI FOUNDATION: $30k → 7%ST JOHN'S PREPARATORY: $5k → 10%URI FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%ST JOHN'S PREPARATORY: $3k → 10%URI FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%URI FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%ALL CARE VNA: $4k → 10%URI FOOTBALL (5TH QUARTER CLUB): $10k → 7%BUTTON HOLE: $12k → 14%URI FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%BUTTON HOLE: $11k → 14%URI ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $5k → 7%BUTTON HOLE: $10k → 14%BUTTON HOLE: $10k → 14%BUTTON HOLE: $9k → 14%BUTTON HOLE: $8k → 14%BUTTON HOLE: $7k → 14%BUTTON HOLE: $7k → 14%BUTTON HOLE: $5k → 14%UNITED WAY: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MA
OH
RI
MD
SC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$474k · 13 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
21

Total granted

$474k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+28%

Still filing today

38%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitReligionHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT
    9× · 2017–2025 · $286k · revenue +277%
  • BUTTON HOLE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $77k · revenue +171%
  • UC
    US Challenge Cup Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • MU
    MOVE UNITED
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +3%
  • N
    NMOHCFL
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • UA
    URI ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
4
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
7
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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8
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
9
University of New Haven

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…

Education
10
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
11
Regis College

Regis college, through education in the arts, sciences, and professions empowers women and men to challenge themselves academically, to serve and to lead. a catholic college, regis is a diverse and welcoming community guided by the values…

Education
12
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Rhode Island Foundation & Alumni Engagement; the most unlike its peers is Us Challenge Cup Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT: $285,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT+4 more: $10,750 · EducationIndividual grant recipient: $41,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipientURI FOOTBALL (5TH QUARTER CLUB): $11,000 · OtherURI FOOTBALL (5TH QUARTER CLU…US Challenge Cup Inc: $8,500 · OtherUS Challenge Cup IncST PAUL'S CHURCH: $8,000 · OtherST PAUL'S CHURCHKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · OtherKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITYOUR LADY OF MERCY: $6,500 · OtherUNITED WAY: $6,500 · OtherTHE SAINTS ACADEMY: $5,500 · OtherFLYNN J SULLIVAN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP: $5,000 · OtherNMOHCFL: $5,000 · OtherURI ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MA: $5,000 · Other+12 more: $18,132 · Other+12 moreBUTTON HOLE: $76,500 · Recreation & SportsBUTTON HOLEMOVE UNITED: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsMOVE UNITEDFAIRWAYS FOR FREEDOM INC: $5,000 · HealthSeal Legacy Foundation Inc: $1,500 · Public BenefitROSTRO DE CRISTO INC: $1,000 · Religion
Education$296,250Other$132,882Recreation & Sports$82,500Health$5,000Public Benefit$1,500Religion$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT: $285,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBUTTON HOLE: $76,500 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetUS Challenge Cup Inc: $8,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOVE UNITED: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAIRWAYS FOR FREEDOM INC: $5,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBRYANT UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeal Legacy Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROSTRO DE CRISTO INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCORLISS INSTITUTE INC THE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FESSENDEN SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT ↗
  • Who funds BUTTON HOLE ↗
  • Who funds US Challenge Cup Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MOVE UNITED ↗
  • Who funds FAIRWAYS FOR FREEDOM INC ↗
  • Who funds BRYANT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Seal Legacy Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROSTRO DE CRISTO INC ↗
  • Who funds CORLISS INSTITUTE INC THE ↗
  • Who funds THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS ↗

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.

The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Barber Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Barber Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Move United: 16% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • The Fessenden School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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