· Private foundation
The Barker Family 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 $10k8 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $34k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Dayton | $60,000 |
| Seal Family Foundation | $12,500 |
| Boys Town | $11,200 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters | $10,000 |
| Millard Public Schools Foundaiton | $7,500 |
| NE College Baseball Hall of Fame | $7,500 |
| PGA Reach Nebraska | $2,900 |
| Church of the Nativity | $600 |
| Omaha Community Playhouse | $550 |
| Our Lady of Tahoe | $500 |
| Open Door Mission | $250 |
| St James Church | $100 |
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, $168k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- MPMILLARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +22%
- UOUniversity of Dayton4× · 2018–2024 · $95k · revenue +27%
- FFFather Flanagan's Boys' Home8× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- AMAUGUSTINIAN MINISTRYone grant, 2017 · $28k
- SJST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $16k
- SVST VINCENT DE PAULone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
End hunger together.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
The mission of the omaha parks foundation is to improve, promote, preserve, protect, and support omaha's parks and recreation system. we engage in initiatives that make our parks system more accessible, inclusive, and beneficial to all…
Stand for schools supports nebraska's public schools, working to advance policies that make them stronger while opposing policies that would weaken them.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
The mission of ronald mcdonald house charities in omaha (rmhc in omaha) is to create, operate, and support programs that directly improve the health and well being of children. we strive to improve the lives of children and their families…
Nebraska children's mission is to create positive change for children through community engagement. our vision is a nebraska where all children will have the resources and support to reach their full potential. our values are (1)…
The mission of the north dakota state fair foundation is to develop lifelong relationships with donors to secure the philanthropic gifts that will enhance and support the work of the north dakota state fair.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Siena Francis House and the most unlike its peers is Deal Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 40 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 Omaha Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds MILLARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds SEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds Deal Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA PGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RANCHO SANTA FE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
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.
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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 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.