· Private foundation
The Barnes Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $281k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRISTOL PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $29,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTERS OF CT INC | $25,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| UCONN FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HORIZONS AT WESTMINSTER SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| NEW HAVEN ECOLOGY PROJECT INC | $20,000 |
| CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $15,000 |
| CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| READ TO GROW | $15,000 |
| CONNECTIKIDS | $15,000 |
| CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $13,000 |
| CONNECTICUT STORY TELLING CENTER | $12,000 |
| FLANDERS NATURE CENTER | $12,000 |
| ORGANIZED PARENTS MAKE A DIFFERENCE (OPMAD) | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% 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.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- NMNEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +21%
NEW HAVEN ECOLOGY PROJECT INC4× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +30%- CFCOMMUNITY FIRST SCHOOL INC3× · 2021–2023 · $70k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- CRCORTLAND REUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +41%
- CSCONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT OF NEW BRITAINone grant, 2021 · $10k
- RRE-CENTERone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.
An independent, nonprofit school serving the lower fairfield county area of connecticut for children ages three to eight, and providing an environment that fosters in children the joy of learning through the use of innovative materials and…
To explore the world through authentic experiences, empowering students to engage deeply and be ready for what is next.
Center city public charter schools (center city pcs) empowers our students for lifelong success by building strong character, promoting academic excellence, and generating public service throughout washington, d.c.
The stamford charter school for excellence prepares young people in stamford, connecticut to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social,…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide a supportive educational setting for students who have experienced difficulties in learning. center school is dedicated to designing educational programs which foster each child's maximum academic, social, and emotional development.
A pre-kindergarten through grade 8 independent school committed to academic excellence and the joy of childhood, fostering intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and the development of the whole child.
Creative City Public Charter School's teachers, students and parents share governance and cooperate on curriculum and community decisions, building on the inquisitive nature of children to drive the project-based arts-integrated…
In partnership with families, we as an educational community, foster learning in a nurturing, supportive, child-centered environment immersed in nature. we teach, respect and celebrate diversity, individuality, and the whole child.
Our mission is to provide a safe and nurturing environment for children to develop socially, creatively, emotionally, physically and cognitavely through the various programs we offer. we operate on the premise that a child's natural…
Compass charter school is a safe and nurturing educational environment that honors the individuality of each learner. by engaging in a process of inquiry, our graduates will be equipped with the necessary skills to lead fulfilling personal…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Haven Ecology Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Family Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 42 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
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 NEW ENGLAND CAROUSEL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN ECOLOGY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FIRST SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds READ TO GROW INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZED PARENTS MAKE A DIFFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT STORYTELLING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PRATT NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CORTLAND REUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
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: Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · The Stocker Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Ahearn Family Foundation · The Fund for Greater Hartford Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · The Betty Knox Foundation Inc
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 Barnes Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Organized Parents Make a Difference Inc — 66% of income from government
- The Bridge Family Center Inc — 61% of income from government
- Connecticut Science Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Community First School Inc — 9% of income from government
- New Haven Ecology Project Inc — 9% of income from government
- Neighborhood Music School Inc — 4% of income from government
- New England Carousel Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- Connecticut Storytelling Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Pratt Nature Center 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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