Virginia · Private foundation
The Barr Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $140k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 103
- Grants FY2025
- 93
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 75 to 101
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 18
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations The Barr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 101 | $137k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 93 | $158k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 101 | $168k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 92 | $205k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 84 | $90k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 84 | $82k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 85 | $102k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 75 | $88k | 4% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc | $226,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Virginia Arts Festival Inc | $91,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Chrysler Museum Incorporated | $36,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications Association Inc | $20,850 | 9 | 0% |
| Virginia Symphony Orchestra | $19,400 | 9 | 0% |
| The Brown Ledge Foundation Inc | $16,050 | 7 | 0% |
| The Norfolk Academy | $12,350 | 9 | 0% |
| Virginia Stage Company | $9,600 | 9 | 0% |
| Congregation Emanuel | $9,500 | 4 | n/a |
| World Monuments Fund Inc | $9,250 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 98 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 93 recipients with no EIN on record ($457k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Barr Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · The Helen G Gifford Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Sentara Health · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Goode Family Foundation · Alan & Esther Fleder Foundation · Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation · Beazley Foundation Incorporated · Shearwater Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Barr Foundation
- How much does The Barr Foundation give?
- The Barr Foundation reported 103 grants totaling $139,569 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 75 and 101 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Barr Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (40%), Health (30%), Education (7%).
- Who are The Barr Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc ($227k), The Virginia Arts Festival Inc ($91k), The Chrysler Museum Incorporated ($36k).
- Does The Barr Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Barr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Barr Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hampton Roads Community Foundation, Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc, The Helen G Gifford Foundation.
- Where is The Barr Foundation based?
- The Barr Foundation is based in VA.
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