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The Barr 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.

$76k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$161kReligion$147kYouth Development$120kHousing & Shelter$47kHuman Services$47kCivil Rights$12kEducation$6k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTH FOR CHRIST$24,500
DOVE MEDICAL$12,000
WALKING TALL SOUTHERN OREGON$9,000
EUGENE MISSION$8,000
HUNDRED ACRE FOUNDATION$6,000
OREGON RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$4,000
OPTIONS PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER$4,000
TEEN CHALLENGE$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
WILD ONES YOUTH RANCH$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOSEA YOUTH SERVICES: $6k → 15%HOSEA YOUTH SERVICES: $6k → 15%HOSEA YOUTH SERVICES: $4k → 15%HOSEA YOUTH SERVICES: $4k → 15%HOSEA YOUTH SERVICES: $4k → 15%HOSEA YOUTH SERVICES: $4k → 15%HOSEA YOUTH SERVICES: $4k → 15%CHRISTIANS AS FAMILY ADVOCATES: $4k → 15%CHRISTIANS AS FAMILY ADVOCATES: $2k → 15%CHRISTIANS AS FAMILY ADVOCATES: $2k → 15%CHRISTIANS AS FAMILY ADVOCATES: $2k → 15%CHRISTIANS AS FAMILY ADVOCATES: $2k → 15%CHRISTIANS AS FAMILY ADVOCATES: $2k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$518k · 14 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
3

Total granted

$518k
$16k

Still filing today

64%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterReligionYouth DevelopmentHealthCivil RightsOther

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

  • DM
    Dove Medical
    8× · 2017–2024 · $96k · revenue +82%
  • EUGENE MISSION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $47k · revenue +55%
  • WT
    WALKING TALL SOUTHERN OREGON
    5× · 2020–2024 · $39k · revenue +144%

Funded once

  • CO
    CALVARY OPEN BIBLE CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • YL
    YOUNG LIfe
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • SF
    SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2021 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Life Services of Spokane

Life Services is a Christ-centered organization dedicated to the sanctity of life at conception. We offer hope, truth, medical care and support from a biblical perspective to anyone impacted by an unplanned pregnancy helping them choose…

Health
2
Hope Medical

Hope Medical of Washington is a faith-based, non-profit community medical clinic providing compassionate, evidence-based health care services to empower people to make informed decisions. We offer free, confidential services including free…

Human Services
3
Alternatives

Alternatives provides medical and educational services that empower men and women to make life affirming choices concerning pregnancy and sexual health.

Religion
4
Options Health

Options Health is a non-profit organization providing no cost health- care education, and support services to women, men, and their families in the areas of pregnancy, sexual health, and other related concerns.

Health
5
Pro-Choice Oregon Foundation

Pro-choice oregon foundation supports and defends, as a fundamental right and value, a person's freedom to make individual decisions regarding the full range of reproductive choices.

6
Eugene Christian School

To assist families by proving a Christ-centered bible-based education that inspires each student to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and pursue excellence in moral character, academics, and service to others.

Education
7
Life Choices Crisis Pregnancy Supp

Non-profit medical clinic educating and equipping individuals to make empowered decisions, providing pregnancy confirmation, and offering programs of prevention, intervention, and restoration.

Health
8
Human Life of Wa Education Foundation

To reestablish throughout our culture a recognition that all human beings have intrinsic dignity from conception to natural death.

Unclassified
9
My Choices Dba Obria Medical Clinics Pnw

To share the truth and love of Jesus Christ in conjunction with a ministry to those facing pregnancy related issues: a pregnant womens' counseling program, a free pregnancy testing program, a maternity support (baby supplies, clothing and…

Health
10
Real Life Ministries Inc

Pregnancy education and counseling

11
Oregon Family School

Partnering with parents to provide a rich, innovative, and effective home- based education that nurtures academic success and personal growth.

Education
12
1st Way Life Center Inc

1st Way Life Center is a non-profit 501(c)(3)organization w/ no political affiliation dedicated to helping woman with unexpected pregnancies.The Center provides accessible information to low income woman & teens on abortion,sexual…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eugene Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wild Ones Youth Ranch. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YOUTH FOR CHRIST — $147,000 · OtherYOUTH FOR CHRISTDove Medical — $96,000 · OtherDove MedicalSTAND UP GIRL FOUNDATION — $33,000 · OtherSTAND UP GIRL FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $24,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTEEN CHALLENGE — $24,000 · OtherTEEN CHALLENGE+5 more — $32,500 · Other+5 moreEUGENE MISSION INC — $47,000 · Housing & ShelterEUGENE MI…Hosea Youth Services — $31,000 · Human ServicesHosea You…CHRISTIANS AS FAMILY ADVOCATES — $14,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN…WALKING TALL SOUTHERN OREGON — $39,000 · ReligionOPTIONS PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERS INC — $24,000 · HealthOREGON RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $12,000 · Civil RightsWild Ones Youth Ranch — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentHUNDRED ACRE FOUNDATION — $6,000 · Education
Other$356,500Housing & Shelter$47,000Human Services$45,000Religion$39,000Health$24,000Civil Rights$12,000Youth Development$10,000Education$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDove Medical — $96,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetEUGENE MISSION INC — $47,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWALKING TALL SOUTHERN OREGON — $39,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetHosea Youth Services — $31,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetOPTIONS PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERS INC — $24,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCHRISTIANS AS FAMILY ADVOCATES — $14,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetOREGON RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWild Ones Youth Ranch — $10,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetOREGON RIGHT TO LIFE — $8,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHUNDRED ACRE FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budget
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 Dove Medical
  • Who funds EUGENE MISSION INC
  • Who funds WALKING TALL SOUTHERN OREGON
  • Who funds Hosea Youth Services
  • Who funds OPTIONS PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERS INC
  • Who funds CHRISTIANS AS FAMILY ADVOCATES
  • Who funds OREGON RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Wild Ones Youth Ranch
  • Who funds OREGON RIGHT TO LIFE
  • Who funds HUNDRED ACRE FOUNDATION

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.

McKay Family FoundationOR13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: McKay Family Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Barr Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 80%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 10%
  • Christians As Family Advocates10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Barr Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Barr Family 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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