· Private foundation
The Barnes Family Foundation
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k46 grants · $126k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $98k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $20,000 |
| PROVIDENCE ST JOSEPH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ST FRANCIS DE SALES CHURCH | $12,600 |
| CAMP PENDLETON ARMED SERVICES YMCA | $10,000 |
| STRIVE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| OPERATION GRATITUDE | $6,000 |
| WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION | $6,000 |
| MY STUFF BAGS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GARY SINESE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CALIFORNIA ASSOC OF SCHOLARS | $5,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| PREGNANCY COUNSELING CENTER | $5,000 |
| NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of The Barnes Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 81% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 67%.
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 +51% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
64 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 9 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; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SFSTRIVE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +369%
- OGOPERATION GRATITUDE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +72%
- PCPREGNANCY COUNSELING CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONALone grant, 2017 · $2k
- UCUNITED CEREPRAL PALSYWHEELS FOR HUMone grant, 2020 · $1k
- DPDEVIL PUPS INCone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -5%
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.
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How this is measured
53 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. 53 of the 100 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.
- Who funds STRIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION GRATITUDE INC ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL POLICE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOPE THE MISSION ↗
- Who funds MY STUFF BAGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds AHEAD WITH HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONEGENERATION ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds FOOD ON FOOT ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds ANGELS WAY MATERNITY HOME ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds Tierra del Sol Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
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: California Community Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Henry L Guenther Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation · Stern Sidney Memorial Tuw · The Annenberg Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Barnes Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Barnes Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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