· Private foundation
The Barker Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PLAYERS | $8,051 |
| TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY | $3,500 |
| THE HIGHLANDER CHARTER SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Trinity Repertory Company4× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +44%- PCPAUL CUFFEE SCHOOL4× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +38%
- TMTHE MANTON AVENUE PROJECT3× · 2017–2021 · $6k · revenue +25%
Funded once
PROVIDENCE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +2%- TWThe Wilbury Theatre Groupgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +162%
- FFIRSTWORKSone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -15%
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.
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.
Trinity academy for the performing arts utilizes an interdisciplinary arts-integrated program to prepare our artist-scholars for collegiate and professional success.
Rhode island youth theatre is a non-profit educational theatre company that provides opportunites for youth to explore their interests and develop their theatre skills.
The mission of pvd prep is to prepare a diverse group of providence middle school students for college preparatory high schools.
Our mission is to thrill and move our audiences, dancers, choreographers, supporters and staff with art and discipline. our vision is to continuously increase in passion and artistic excellence and strength, acheiving national and…
Speakeasy produces intimate, entertaining plays and musicals that are new to boston and compel thoughtful conversation. we champion new talent and future arts leaders, alongside a diverse community of experienced local theatre…
The Actors Company of Natick ACON creates theatre with purpose. At ACON, we celebrate artists and challenge community perspectives through equitable, professional and accessible productions.
The seacoast repertory theatre is a non-profit, professional regional theater located in historic downtown portsmouth, nh. its mission is to entertain, educate and inspire through the power of live theater. this mission is achieved through…
We produce vital works of classical and contemporary theatre, with Shakespeare as our foundation. We approach this work boldly with a resolve to ignite spirits, educate minds and defy expectation.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 11 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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: The Champlin Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Rhode Island Council for the Humanities · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Frederick C Tanner Memorial Fund · Ira S& Anna Galkin Charitable Tr · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
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