· Private foundation
The Barker Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $165k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $171k
Anchored by a single position — about 99% of reported assets are held in Rbc Capital Markets Corp.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA | $32,570 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER NASHUA | $26,007 |
| CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTER | $19,721 |
| HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE CARE | $19,433 |
| NASHUA SOUP KITCHEN AND SHELTER INC | $18,312 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY | $18,311 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL | $15,123 |
| JENNY FUND | $11,000 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK | $10,077 |
| UNH FOUNDATION INC | $9,854 |
| WAYPOINT | $9,244 |
| MARGUERITE'S PLACE | $8,020 |
| RIVIER UNIVERSITY | $7,568 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $7,489 |
| SHARE OUTREACH INC | $7,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $327k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- NSNASHUA SOUP KITCHEN & SHELTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $163k · revenue +67%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua6× · 2020–2025 · $116k · revenue +62%
- SJST JOSEPH COMMUNITY SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY6× · 2020–2025 · $113k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- NHNORTH HAMPTON PUBLIC LIBRARY & CULTURAL CENTERone grant, 2021 · $30k
- FOFRIENDS OF CENTENNIAL HALL INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -34%
- NHNORTH HAMPTON PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2022 · $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 holding company for 615 Amherst St, Harbor Care's licensed residential treatment center for individuals and families living with substance use disorder.
Northern New Hampshire Healthcare Collaborative, Inc. will ensure access to quality care within the communities in which our patients live, provide local and high quality care with positive outcomes to our patients in Coos County while…
Harbor Care's mission is to provide vital services, including housing and healthcare to all in our communities needing assistance. Our vision is one where everyone gets to live safe, stable, and healthy lives, filled with purpose, respect…
We are dedicated to delivering outstanding home health and hospice services that enrich the lives of the people we serve.
NeighborWorks Southern New Hampshire enhances people's lives and the community environment by providing access to quality housing services, revitalizing neighborhoods and supporting opportunities for personal empowerment. The target market…
Disability rights center - new hampshire protects, advances, and strengthens the legal rights and advocacy interests of all people with disabilities.
Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.
Finding responsible and caring forever homes; to provide shelter and care for lost, abandonded and unwanted animals; to be advocates for animals...speaking for those who cannot speak for themselves; to implement educational programs and…
To educate a diverse public about the significance of New Hampshire's past and its relationship to our lives today. To this end, the Society collects, preserves, and interprets material pertaining to New Hampshire history.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashua Children's Home and the most unlike its peers is Looziana Basset Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 9% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 78 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 NASHUA SOUP KITCHEN & SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH COMMUNITY SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Home Health and Hospice Care ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds MARGUERITE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Rivier University ↗
- Who funds WAYPOINT ↗
- Who funds JENNY FUND ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Association for the Blind D/B/A Future in Sight ↗
- Who funds Gateways Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE ↗
- Who funds LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRONT DOOR AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Southern New Hampshire ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CENTENNIAL HALL INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE GREEN AND WHITE MTNS ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES ↗
- Who funds DAVID'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUHEGAN VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds Nashua Police Athletic League ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds Nashua Community Music School ↗
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: 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
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 Foundation Inc 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.
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
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.