New Hampshire · Private foundation
The Barker Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $336k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,134
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $32,570
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 51
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $731k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations The Barker Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 47 | $336k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $347k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $396k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $341k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $353k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $341k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nashua Soup Kitchen & Shelter Inc | $162,619 | 6 | 2% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua | $115,813 | 6 | 0% |
| St Joseph Community Services Dba Meals on Wheels of Hillsborough County | $112,924 | 6 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua Inc | $98,626 | 6 | 1% |
| University of New Hampshire Foundation Incorporated | $88,090 | 5 | 0% |
| Home Health and Hospice Care | $77,553 | 6 | 0% |
| New Hampshire Catholic Charities | $73,617 | 6 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $55,189 | 6 | n/a |
| Marguerite's Place Inc | $50,472 | 6 | 1% |
| Rivier University | $49,087 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($612k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Barker Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Eastern Bank Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Ann de Nicola Tuw · We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · United Way of Greater Nashua Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Samuel P Hunt Foundation · Arthur L Getz Charitable Tr
How this is measured
About The Barker Foundation Inc
- How much does The Barker Foundation Inc give?
- The Barker Foundation Inc reported 49 grants totaling $335,658 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 51 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Barker Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (27%), Human Services (19%), Education (13%).
- Who are The Barker Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Nashua Soup Kitchen & Shelter Inc ($163k), Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua ($116k), St Joseph Community Services Dba Meals on Wheels of Hillsborough County ($113k).
- Does The Barker Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Barker Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Barker Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees, Cogswell Benevolent Trust.
- Where is The Barker Foundation Inc based?
- The Barker Foundation Inc is based in NH.
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