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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 FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
8%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$24,500
Organizations funded a year
9 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$2.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations The Barr Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
ReligionHealthCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther
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
FY2024still arriving10$76k10%
FY202312$92k8%
FY202212$72k8%
FY202113$69k8%
FY202012$63k25%
FY201910$62k10%
FY20189$52k0%
FY201710$56kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dove Medical$96,00083%
Eugene Mission Inc$47,00080%
Walking Tall Southern Oregon$39,00054%
Hosea Youth Services$31,00073%
Options Pregnancy Resource Centers Inc$24,00061%
Christians as Family Advocates$14,00060%
Oregon Right to Life Education Foundation$12,00031%
Wild Ones Youth Ranch$10,00056%
Hope Ranch Ministries$8,5007n/a
Oregon Right to Life$8,00021%
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All grantees of The Barr Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dove Medical$96,00083%
Eugene Mission Inc$47,00080%
Walking Tall Southern Oregon$39,00054%
Hosea Youth Services$31,00073%
Options Pregnancy Resource Centers Inc$24,00061%
Christians as Family Advocates$14,00060%
Oregon Right to Life Education Foundation$12,00031%
Wild Ones Youth Ranch$10,00056%
Hope Ranch Ministries$8,5007n/a
Oregon Right to Life$8,00021%
Hundred Acre Foundation$6,00013%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($244k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Barr Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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

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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 10.

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.

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

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 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.

About The Barr Family Foundation

How much does The Barr Family Foundation give?
The Barr Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $75,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Barr Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (30%), Religion (27%), Youth Development (22%).
Who are The Barr Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Dove Medical ($96k), Eugene Mission Inc ($47k), Walking Tall Southern Oregon ($39k).
Does The Barr Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Barr Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Barr Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include McKay Family Foundation, M J Murdock Charitable Trust, The Oregon Community Foundation.
Where is The Barr Family Foundation based?
The Barr Family Foundation is based in OR.

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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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