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The Barker Welfare Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
124
Grants FY2025
149
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
149 to 229
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$106M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The Barker Welfare Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving111$1.5M12%
FY2024149$1.8M13%
FY2023157$2.3M8%
FY2022186$2.6M11%
FY2021208$4.8M15%
FY2020229$3.5Mn/a
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What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$4.8MHuman Services$2.7MYouth Development$1.5MHousing & Shelter$1.3MHealth$1.2MEducation$1.0MFood & Nutrition$883kCrime & Legal$698kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 269 grantees
All grantees of The Barker Welfare Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends of Barker Civic Center Inc$1,931,734238%
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc$350,50050%
Citizens Concerned for the Homeless Inc$229,300610%
Goddard Riverside Community Center$214,00050%
Grand Street Settlement Inc$164,00060%
Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc$158,07051%
The Jack and Shirley Lubeznik Center for the Arts$152,50065%
Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society Inc$150,00017%
Field Museum of Natural History$150,00030%
Queens Community House$146,50050%
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Inc$143,00060%
Safe Horizon Inc$137,50060%
Interfaith Community Pads Inc$135,900428%
Chicago Commons Association$135,00050%
City Harvest Inc$134,50050%
University Settlement Society of New York$133,00050%
Good Shepherd Services$130,00050%
Greater Chicago Food Depository$130,00050%
Island Harvest Ltd$129,00050%
International Friendship Gardens Music Festival Inc$128,50058%
Henry Street Settlement$116,50040%
Sunnyside Community Services Inc$112,00050%
The United Neighborhood Houses of New York Inc$107,50050%
New York Historical Society$107,00050%
Chicago Youth Centers$105,00050%
Dunebrook Inc$105,00061%
The Hope Program Inc$103,55050%
Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington DC Inc$100,00040%
Success Academy Charter Schools Inc$100,00040%
Chicago Symphony Orchestra$100,00050%
American Museum of Natural History$100,00060%
Academy for Urban School Leadership$100,00050%
New York Botanical Garden$100,00040%
Build Inc$100,00050%
Family Advocates Inc$97,50062%
Wildlife Conservation Society$96,00060%
Year Up Inc$95,00040%
Partnership With Children Inc$95,00050%
Jacob a Riis Neighborhood Settlement$91,50051%
Mercy Center Inc$91,00060%
Sanctuary for Families Inc$90,00040%
The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired$87,50050%
New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc$87,50050%
Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services Inc$85,98740%
Project Renewal Inc$85,72540%
Gads Hill Center$85,00050%
Central Park Conservancy Inc$85,00020%
Open Door Community Alliance Inc$85,00058%
Noble Network of Charter Schools$85,00060%
Hudson Guildinc$84,00050%
The Door - a Center of Alternatives Inc$84,00050%
Visionsservices for the Blind and Visually Impaired$83,26340%
Coalition for the Homeless Inc$83,00050%
Project Hospitality Inc$81,50050%
Service Program for Older People Inc$80,22550%
The Art Institute of Chicago$80,00040%
Rocking the Boat Inc$80,00060%
McLaren Northern Michigan Foundation$80,00050%
St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc$79,00041%
The Young People's Chorus of New York City Inc$77,50050%
Wave Hill Incorporated$77,00050%
Youth Service Bureau of la Porte County Inc$75,00065%
North Lawndale Employment Network$75,00030%
Per Scholas Inc$75,00040%
Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy Inc$75,00051%
Girls Inc of Chicago$75,00061%
Chicago Historical Society$75,00050%
Student Leadership Network Inc$75,00060%
YWCA Metropolitan Chicago$75,00050%
Avenues for Justice Inc$75,00051%
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation$75,00050%
Reins of Life Inc$73,30052%
National Dance Institute$72,50050%
Row New York Inc$72,50021%
Read Alliance Inc$72,50051%
Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago$72,50050%
Church of the Holy Apostles$72,0004n/a
Reaching Out Community Services Inc$71,50051%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City Inc$70,00040%
Exalt Youth$70,00060%
Chicago Public Library Foundation$70,00021%
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations$70,00050%
St Marys Hospital for Children Inc$70,00010%
Search and Care Inc$68,50051%
Leap Inc$67,50050%
Housing Opportunities and Maintenance for the Elderly Inc$67,00051%
Adaptive Design Association Inc$65,00062%
The Thresholds$65,00030%
The Urban Dove Inc$64,00050%
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation$63,50050%
The Carnegie Hall Corporation$62,50050%
St Lukes Chamber Ensemble Inc$62,50050%
New York Hall of Science$62,50050%
Youth Guidance$62,50050%
Alternatives Inc$62,50050%
Council on the Environment Inc$62,50050%
Citymeals-On-Wheels$62,00010%
Publicolor Inc$61,00060%
Part of the Solution$61,00040%
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago$60,00030%
Kipp New York Inc$60,00030%
The Battery Conservancy Inc$60,00051%
Red Hook Initiative$60,00050%
Lyric Opera of Chicago$60,00030%
Erie Neighborhood House$60,00040%
Laporte County Meals on Wheels Inc$59,00034%
Service League of Michigan City IN Inc$57,500389%
Jericho Project$57,50040%
Mind Builders Creative Arts Inc$57,50050%
Stanley M Isaacs Neighborhood Center Inc$56,00030%
Society of the Third Street Music School Settlement$55,00050%
Hot Bread Kitchen Ltd$55,00060%
Intrepid Museum Foundation Inc$55,00050%
Long Island Crisis Center Inc$55,00050%
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba The Staten Island Museum$55,00041%
New York Common Pantry$54,75030%
Dorot Inc$54,50040%
The Children's Aid Society$53,00040%
Fresh Youth Initiatives Inc$53,00050%
The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network$52,72550%
Getting Out and Staying Out Inc$50,00040%
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum$50,00020%
Betances Health Center$50,00040%
The Knowledge House Fellowship Inc$50,00040%
Streetwise Partners Inc$50,00041%
You Gotta Believe - the Older Child Adoption & Permanency Movement Inc$50,00051%
Harlem Educational Activities Fund Inc$50,00050%
Boys & Girls Club of Ridgefield$49,50050%
Harbor Springs Area Historical Society$47,50061%
Resources for Children With Special Needs Inc$47,00040%
Old Westbury Gardens Inc$45,00020%
Michigan City Zoological Socie$45,000127%
Neighborhood Coalition for Shelter Inc$42,50021%
Artsconnection Inc$42,50030%
Michiana Humane Society Inc$42,50041%
Lawyers Alliance for New York$42,50050%
Scan-Harbor Inc$42,00040%
Reading Team Inc$40,00042%
Police Athletic League Inc$40,00040%
Deborah's Place$40,00040%
Health Advocates for Older People Inc$40,00063%
The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc$40,00060%
Whitney Museum of American Art$37,50030%
Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow Inc$37,50030%
Asphalt Green Inc$37,50030%
Urban Pathways Inc$37,50020%
Harlem School of the Arts Inc$37,50030%
Manhattan School of Music$35,00050%
The Southampton Fresh Air Home$35,00021%
Boys & Girls Clubs of la Porte County Inc$35,00032%
The Little Orchestra Societyorpheon Inc$35,00022%
The Food Depot$32,50050%
Hour Children Inc$30,00020%
Prep for Prep$30,00020%
The Partnership for After School Education Inc$30,00021%
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Cook County$30,00022%
Family Rescue Inc$30,00030%
Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry$30,00020%
Queens Botanical Garden Society Inc$29,00050%
Chess-In-The-Schools Inc$29,00050%
Astor Services for Children & Families$27,51130%
New Destiny Housing Corporation$27,50021%
First Serve-Nm Inc$25,50040%
Planned Parenthood of Illinois$25,00010%
Peer Health Exchange Inc$25,00020%
Housing Plus Solutions Inc$25,00020%
Strive International Inc$25,00010%
Big Brothers Big Sisters Mountain Region$25,00030%
Read to Lead Inc$25,00020%
Museum of New Mexico Foundation$25,00020%
Trustees of Deerfield Academy$24,09560%
Neighbors Together Corporation$23,50011%
The Center For Empowerment And Education Inc$22,50060%
Long Island Children's Museum$22,50030%
Duke University$22,00020%
The Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra Inc$21,50061%
Green Guerillas Inc$20,50032%
The Chapin School Ltd$20,50060%
Riverside Park Conservancy Inc$20,00020%
Girls Educational and Mentoring Services Inc$20,00020%
City Parks Foundation Inc$20,00020%
City Squash Inc$20,00020%
Breaking Ground Housing Development Fund Corporation$20,00020%
PowerMyLearning Inc$20,00020%
Glen Cove Boys & Girls Club at Lincoln House Inc$20,00021%
Rvnahealth Inc$19,00060%
Kids in Crisis Inc$18,50060%
Association to Benefit Children$17,50010%
Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc$17,50010%
Pegasus Therapeutic Riding Inc$16,00060%
Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens Inc$15,50021%
Boys & Girls Club of Pbc$15,50030%
Women's Care Center Inc$15,00020%
Tomorrow's Rainbow Inc$15,00050%
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York Inc$15,0001n/a
New Mexico Suicide Intervention Project Inc$15,00031%
Save the Dunes Conservation Fund$15,00012%
The Fund for American Studies$14,00040%
Rhinebeck Science Foundation Inc$13,74935%
Portledge School$13,00040%
Queens Museum of Art$12,50010%
Founders Hall Foundation Inc$12,50040%
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc$12,50010%
Planned Parenthood of Nassau County Inc$12,5001n/a
King Manor Assoc of Long Island Inc$12,50015%
Project Lift Inc$12,50010%
The Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Inc$12,50010%
Rosarian Academy$12,0002n/a
Girls Incorporated of Santa Fe Inc$10,00020%
The Zoological Society of the Palm Beaches Inc$10,00010%
Think New Mexico$10,00030%
La Familia Medical Center$10,00030%
The Lord's Place Inc$10,00010%
Ridgefield Veterans' Memorial Community Association Inc$10,00040%
Youth Shelters & Family Services Inc$10,00030%
West Side Center for Community Life$10,00020%
The Open Door Shelter Inc$10,00030%
East Cooper Community Outreach$10,00030%
Santa Fe Animal Shelter and Humane Society Inc$10,00030%
Girls Incorporated of New York City$10,00010%
El Sol Jupiters Neighborhood Resource Center Inc$10,0001n/a
Cornerstones Community Partnerships$10,00021%
Ability Beyond Disability Inc$10,00010%
Womens Resource Center of Northern Michigan Inc$10,0001n/a
St Thomas More Play Group Inc$8,50020%
The Society of the Four Arts Inc$8,00030%
Saint Elizabeth Shelter Corporation$7,50020%
Poughkeepsie Farm Project$7,50020%
North Central Community Action Agencies Inc$6,00010%
Yale University$6,0004n/a
Excellent Schools New Mexico$5,00010%
Mommas Inc$5,00011%
National Dance Institute Nm Inc$5,00010%
The South Bronx Educational Foundation Inc$5,00011%
Kids Empowered by Your Support Inc$5,00020%
Grenville Baker Boys and Girls Club Inc$5,00010%
Court Appointed Special Advocates First Judicial District$5,00011%
Fenway Community Health Center Inc$5,00020%
Minds Matter of NYC Inc$5,00010%
Miss Porter's School Inc$4,85030%
Philanthropy New York Inc$4,85010%
Robin Hood Foundation$4,50040%
Paladin Inc$4,50010%
The Episcopal School in the City of New York$3,50030%
Sphere Inc$3,50031%
Priory in the USA of the Most Venerable Order of the Hosp / St John of Jerusalem$3,10040%
Alumni Fund Association of Yale University$3,0002n/a
Judicial Watch Inc$3,00050%
Protection of Rights Alliance Foundation$3,000310%
Michigan City Historical Socie$3,0001n/a
Rebuilding Together Philadelphia$2,50010%
Communities in Schools of New Mexico$2,50010%
Kingston Self-Help Center Inc Peoples Place$2,50010%
Boca Helping Hands Inc$2,50010%
Kitchen Angels Inc$2,50010%
Trinity-Pawling School Corporation$2,00020%
American College of the Building Arts$2,00010%
Foxcroft School$2,00010%
Hitchcock Woods Foundation The$2,00010%
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church$1,8612n/a
Act of Connecticut$1,50010%
A Better Chance in Ridgefield Inc$1,00020%
Ridgebury Riders Inc$5001n/a
President and Trustees of Bates College$50010%
The Ridgefield Chorale$50010%
St Johns Episcopal Church$5001n/a
Children With Hair Loss Inc$50010%
Gcsen Foundation$50010%
St Johns Episcopal Church$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Barker Welfare Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of Barker Civic Center Inc: $1,931,734 over 2y, 38% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $350,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens Concerned for the Homeless Inc: $229,300 over 6y, 10% of budgetGoddard Riverside Community Center: $214,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGrand Street Settlement Inc: $164,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $158,070 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetThe Jack and Shirley Lubeznik Center for the Arts: $152,500 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetFort Wayne Railroad Historical Society Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetField Museum of Natural History: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetQueens Community House: $146,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLenox Hill Neighborhood House Inc: $143,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSafe Horizon Inc: $137,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInterfaith Community Pads Inc: $135,900 over 4y, 28% of budgetChicago Commons Association: $135,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $134,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity Settlement Society of New York: $133,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGood Shepherd Services: $130,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Chicago Food Depository: $130,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Harvest Ltd: $129,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Friendship Gardens Music Festival Inc: $128,500 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetHenry Street Settlement: $116,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSunnyside Community Services Inc: $112,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe United Neighborhood Houses of New York Inc: $107,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $107,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Youth Centers: $105,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDunebrook Inc: $105,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetThe Hope Program Inc: $103,550 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington DC Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSuccess Academy Charter Schools Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $100,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAcademy for Urban School Leadership: $100,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNew York Botanical Garden: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBuild Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFamily Advocates Inc: $97,500 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $96,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYear Up Inc: $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPartnership With Children Inc: $95,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJacob a Riis Neighborhood Settlement: $91,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMercy Center Inc: $91,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSanctuary for Families Inc: $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired: $87,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Landmarks Conservancy Inc: $87,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCenter for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services Inc: $85,987 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetProject Renewal Inc: $85,725 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGads Hill Center: $85,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $85,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOpen Door Community Alliance Inc: $85,000 over 5y, 8.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ82.2× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to The Barker Welfare Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Barker Welfare Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Barker Welfare Foundation

How much does The Barker Welfare Foundation give?
The Barker Welfare Foundation reported 124 grants totaling $1,506,172 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 149 and 229 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Barker Welfare Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Human Services (16%), Youth Development (9%).
Who are The Barker Welfare Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Friends of Barker Civic Center Inc ($1.9M), Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ($351k), Citizens Concerned for the Homeless Inc ($229k).
Does The Barker Welfare Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Barker Welfare Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Barker Welfare Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Pinkerton Foundation, The New York Community Trust.
Where is The Barker Welfare Foundation based?
The Barker Welfare Foundation is based in FL.

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 326 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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