· Private foundation
The Barr Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k100 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL | $20,800 |
| CHRYSLER MUSEUM | $14,050 |
| BETH EL | $5,360 |
| WHRO | $5,300 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM | $4,100 |
| UKRAINIAN HUMANITY CENTER | $4,100 |
| HOPEWELL FUNDGALVANIZE USA | $3,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SE VIRGINIA | $2,700 |
| VIRGINIA SYMPHONY | $2,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,500 |
| HORIZON HAMPTON ROADS | $2,000 |
| CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES AT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY | $1,800 |
| FOR KIDS | $1,775 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,750 |
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 (FY17–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 86% of The Barr Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 47% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 9% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
126 repeat relationships — 81 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 20 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $227k · revenue +40%- TVTHE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +113%
- TCTHE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- CBCONGREGATION BETH ELone grant, 2019 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $3k
- TITEMPLE ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOODone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Defense Fund and the most unlike its peers is Care for Me Youth Initiatives. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
95 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. 95 of the 197 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 THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF TIDEWATER ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds THE BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds THE NORFOLK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Holocaust Museum ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS HAMPTON ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds FORKIDS INC ↗
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: 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
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 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% 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.