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The Barker Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Barker Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$336k
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$574kHuman Services$403kEducation$273kHousing & Shelter$240kYouth Development$208kFood & Nutrition$142kAnimals$99kRecreation & Sports$56kOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k40 grants · $165k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $171k
$4,134
Median grant
3
States reached
$731k
Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 99% of reported assets are held in Rbc Capital Markets Corp.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%NEADS: $5k → 11%ZEBRA CROSSING: $4k → 9%NEADS: $4k → 11%ZEBRA CROSSING: $4k → 9%NEADS: $2k → 11%NEADS: $2k → 11%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $15k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $10k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $10k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $10k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $10k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $10k → 7%NH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $4k → 7%NH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $4k → 7%FRONT DOOR AGENCY: $5k → 7%FRONT DOOR AGENCY: $5k → 7%FRONT DOOR AGENCY: $4k → 7%FRONT DOOR AGENCY: $4k → 7%FRONT DOOR AGENCY: $4k → 7%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE: $3k → 7%FRONT DOOR AGENCY: $4k → 7%MARGUERITE'S PLACE: $9k → 7%MARGUERITE'S PLACE: $9k → 7%MARGUERITE'S PLACE: $8k → 7%MARGUERITE'S PLACE: $8k → 7%MARGUERITE'S PLACE: $8k → 7%MARGUERITE'S PLACE: $8k → 7%STEPPING STONES: $6k → 7%STEPPING STONES: $6k → 7%STEPPING STONES: $5k → 7%STEPPING STONES: $5k → 7%NASHUA CHILDREN'S HOME: $3k → 7%YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA: $33k → 7%NASHUA CHILDREN'S HOME: $3k → 7%YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA: $33k → 7%NASHUA CHILDREN'S HOME: $3k → 7%YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA: $18k → 7%NASHUA CHILDREN'S HOME: $3k → 7%YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA: $10k → 7%NASHUA CHILDREN'S HOME: $3k → 7%YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA: $10k → 7%NASHUA CHILDREN'S HOME: $3k → 7%YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA: $9k → 7%YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA: $3k → 7%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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 58 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
17

Total granted

$2.0M
$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+26%

Still filing today

66%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • NS
    NASHUA SOUP KITCHEN & SHELTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $163k · revenue +67%
  • YM
    Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua
    6× · 2020–2025 · $116k · revenue +62%
  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH COMMUNITY SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $113k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • NH
    NORTH HAMPTON PUBLIC LIBRARY & CULTURAL CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CENTENNIAL HALL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -34%
  • NH
    NORTH HAMPTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
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
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
2
Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Greater Nashua Council on Alcoholism Keystone Hall

The holding company for 615 Amherst St, Harbor Care's licensed residential treatment center for individuals and families living with substance use disorder.

Health
4
Northern New Hampshire Healthcare Collaborative Inc

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…

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5
Harbor Homes Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
6
Dartmouth Health Home Care Inc

We are dedicated to delivering outstanding home health and hospice services that enrich the lives of the people we serve.

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7
Manchester Neighborhood Housing Services Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
8
Disability Rights Center - Nh Inc

Disability rights center - new hampshire protects, advances, and strengthens the legal rights and advocacy interests of all people with disabilities.

Human Services
9
Southern New Hampshire Health System Inc

Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.

Health
10
New Hampshire Humane Society

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…

Animals
11
New England Animal Health Inc
Science & Tech
12
New Hampshire Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashua Children's Home; 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.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 78 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
37/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTER: $122,574 · OtherCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERST JOSEPH COMMUNITY SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY: $112,924 · OtherST JOSEPH COMMUNITY SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS OF H…SHRINERS HOSPITAL: $101,579 · OtherSHRINERS HOSPITALCOMMUNITY HOSPICE HOUSE: $84,321 · OtherCOMMUNITY HOSPICE HOUSETHE SALVATION ARMY: $55,189 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYGIRLS INC: $35,606 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS NH: $34,767 · Other+40 more: $450,713 · Other+40 moreYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua: $115,813 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian…New Hampshire Catholic Charities: $73,617 · Human ServicesNew Hampshire Catholi…MARGUERITE'S PLACE INC: $50,472 · Human ServicesMARGUERITE'S PLACE IN…WAYPOINT: $43,912 · Human ServicesWAYPOINTTHE FRONT DOOR AGENCY INC: $26,223 · Human ServicesTHE FRONT DOOR AGENCY…Family Promise of Southern New Hampshire: $25,440 · Human ServicesFamily Promise of Sou…STEPPING STONES: $21,768 · Human ServicesSTEPPING STONESNASHUA CHILDREN'S HOME: $15,500 · Human Services+2 more: $24,582 · Human Services+2 moreNASHUA SOUP KITCHEN & SHELTER INC: $162,619 · Food & NutritionNASHUA SO…SHARE OUTREACH INC: $17,000 · Food & NutritionSHARE OUT…Home Health and Hospice Care: $77,553 · HealthJENNY FUND: $42,500 · HealthDAVID'S HOUSE INC: $20,500 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $18,218 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $88,090 · EducationRivier University: $49,087 · EducationNASHUA ADULT LEARNING CENTER INC: $15,733 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationBoys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua Inc: $98,626 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF THE GREEN AND WHITE MTNS: $22,291 · Youth DevelopmentNashua Police Athletic League: $17,013 · Youth Development+1 more: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE: $30,000 · AnimalsLIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC: $28,000 · AnimalsMOTLEY MUTTS RESCUE: $12,000 · AnimalsWildlife Heritage Foundation of New Hampshire: $7,000 · AnimalsHERO PUPS INC: $4,000 · AnimalsOPERATION DELTA DOG INC: $3,029 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · Animals
Other$997,673Human Services$397,327Food & Nutrition$179,619Health$158,771Education$153,910Youth Development$140,930Animals$85,029

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 budgetNASHUA SOUP KITCHEN & SHELTER INC: $162,619 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua: $115,813 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetST JOSEPH COMMUNITY SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY: $112,924 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua Inc: $98,626 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $88,090 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHome Health and Hospice Care: $77,553 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $73,617 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMARGUERITE'S PLACE INC: $50,472 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetRivier University: $49,087 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWAYPOINT: $43,912 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJENNY FUND: $42,500 over 6y, 13% of budgetNew Hampshire Association for the Blind D/B/A Future in Sight: $32,459 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGateways Community Services Inc: $32,390 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE: $30,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC: $28,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FRONT DOOR AGENCY INC: $26,223 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFamily Promise of Southern New Hampshire: $25,440 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF CENTENNIAL HALL INC: $25,003 over 1y, 15% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE GREEN AND WHITE MTNS: $22,291 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPPING STONES: $21,768 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetDAVID'S HOUSE INC: $20,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUHEGAN VALLEY INC: $19,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $18,218 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNashua Police Athletic League: $17,013 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSHARE OUTREACH INC: $17,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNashua Community Music School: $16,103 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetNASHUA ADULT LEARNING CENTER INC: $15,733 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNASHUA CHILDREN'S HOME: $15,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $14,367 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBEAVER BROOK ASSOCIATION INC: $13,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNEADS INC: $13,048 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetREGIONAL SERVICES & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMOTLEY MUTTS RESCUE: $12,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetZEBRA CROSSINGS: $11,534 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetMANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $11,137 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWildlife Heritage Foundation of New Hampshire: $7,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCAMP ALLEN INC: $4,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHERO PUPS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOPERATION DELTA DOG INC: $3,029 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 330 DANIEL WEBSTER COUNCIL INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITY NETWORKS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETHUEN MEMORIAL MUSIC HALL INC: $3,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLOOZIANA BASSET RESCUE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWreaths Across America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL: $1,000 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 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 ↗

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.

New Hampshire Charita…Madelaine G Vonweber …Cogswell Benevolent T…Eastern Bank Foundati…Bangor Savings Bank F…Ann de Nicola TuwWe Share A Common Thr…Agnes M Lindsay TrustUnited Way of Greater…Eversource Energy Fou…Samuel P Hunt Foundat…Arthur L Getz Charita…
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH61.1× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Barker Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Barker Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Neads Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 78 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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