· Private foundation
The Barker Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH FIRST ASCENT SCHOLARS | $10,000 |
| TAKING THE REINS | $7,000 |
| CANCIERGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SAINT JOSEPH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ROWLAND HALL | $5,000 |
| TORREY HOUSE PRESS | $3,575 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $3,133 |
| EPISCOPAL REFUGEE NETWORK OF SAN DIEGO | $2,500 |
| UTAH FOOD BANK | $2,060 |
| HORSEMENS DISTRESS FUND INC | $2,000 |
| KUER 901 | $2,000 |
| MALIHEH FREE CLINIC | $2,000 |
| HOUSE OF HOPE | $521 |
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 (FY17–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- RHROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL7× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +81%
- YYOUTHLINC3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +49%
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC4× · 2017–2022 · $12k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- FAFirst Ascent Scholarsone grant, 2019 · $10k
- UCUTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +52%
- DEDavid Eccles School of Businessone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Utah Humanities collaborates with libraries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and cultural and civic groups; provides capacity-building opportunities for volunteers and professionals in the cultural sector; presents…
The christmas box international partners with local, national and international communities and groups to prevent child abuse and to improve the quality of life for children, teens and young adults who have been abused, neglected or are…
To provide quality affordable housing opportunities to individuals and families living in Utah.
We serve Utah's children by finding, educating, and nurturing families to meet the needs of children in foster care
Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…
The organization's mission is to help survivors of torture living in utah to heal from their physical and psychological injuries and rebuild their lives.
Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
Serving refugees living in Salt Lake County who are unable to communicate in English and do not know how to navigate the system on-call 24-7 provided free a language interpreter and guidance through the system also help during weekday…
Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.
We are utah's partner in philanthropy, pioneering innovation and collaboration to invest in our community today for a brighter tomorrow.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Clean Energy Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Horsemen's Distress Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 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. 23 of the 44 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 ROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YOUTHLINC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Cancierge Foundation ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE HORSEMEN'S DISTRESS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TORREY HOUSE PRESS ↗
- Who funds UTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds TAKING THE REINS ↗
- Who funds HELPER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Maliheh Free Clinic ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HUMANITARIAN OUTREACH AND INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds Episcopal Refugee Network of San Diego ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
- Who funds Tifie Humanitarian ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds HEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Utah · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Jeffrey S & Helen H Cardon Foundation · Cumming Foundation · Kanter Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Barker Family Charitable 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.