· Private foundation
The Barker Welfare Foundation
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 $10k48 grants · $170k
- $10k–50k74 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORT WAYNE RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC | $150,000 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION INC | $50,000 |
| CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR THE HOMELESS INC | $40,000 |
| GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT INC | $25,000 |
| CHICAGO COMMONS ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE INC | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON | $25,000 |
| JACK & SHIRLEY LUBEZNIK CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC | $25,000 |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL INC | $25,000 |
| NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN | $25,000 |
| GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| ACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP | $25,000 |
| LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC | $22,500 |
| UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK CITY INC | $22,500 |
| SERVICES FOR THE UNDERSERVED INC | $20,000 |
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, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +40% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
239 repeat relationships — 98 still active in FY2025, 141 since wound down; 13 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $208k 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
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $351k · revenue +3%- CCCITIZENS CONCERNED FOR THE HOMELESS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $229k · revenue +79%
- GSGRAND STREET SETTLEMENT INC6× · 2020–2025 · $164k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- SMST MARYS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN INCone grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue +24%
- CCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELSone grant, 2020 · $62k · revenue -25%
- MCMICHIGAN CITY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIEone grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue -1% · 27% of their budget
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership With Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is American College of the Building Arts. 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 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
263 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 263 of the 326 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FRIENDS OF BARKER CIVIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds GODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JACK AND SHIRLEY LUBEZNIK CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HORIZON INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COMMUNITY PADS INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Commons Association ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HARVEST LTD ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP GARDENS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds SUNNYSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds DUNEBROOK INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Youth Centers ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds BUILD INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
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: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Robin Hood Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Inc C/O Joel E Sammet & Co LLP · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Altman Foundation · The Jean & Louis Dreyfus Foundation Inc · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008
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 Welfare 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.
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra Inc — 2% of income from government
- Rvnahealth Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% 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.
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