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The Barra Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
85
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$305k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$4.3MArts & Culture$2.8MCommunity Improvement$2.7MPhilanthropy$2.3MHealth$1.4MCrime & Legal$1.1MEmployment$990kFood & Nutrition$989kOther$0
02FY2024 · 85 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $383k
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+3 grants · $868k
$11,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$95M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TCG GROCERIES$305,000
PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND$300,000
WORKSHOP LEARNING$263,280
ART-REACH$205,000
PHILADELPHIA ACCELERATOR FUND$200,000
SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS NETWORKTRIPLE BOTTOM BREWING$182,500
THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$180,000
DREXEL UNIVERSITY$150,000
FAMFREQUENCY PRODUCTIONS$150,000
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$125,000
RESEARCH FOR ACTION$118,000
GREENLINE ACCESS CAPITAL$105,000
WE LOVE PHILLY$105,000
MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$100,000
BOLT$100,000
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 (FY19–24, $978k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE: $10k → 6%ELDERNET OF LOWER MERION AND NARBERTH: $5k → 10%COMMUNITY YMCA OF EASTERN DELAWARE COUNTY: $10k → 10%PROJECT HOME: $21k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $9k → 22%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $9k → 6%LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA: $9k → 6%CHARLES A MELTON ARTS & EDUCATION CENTER: $5k → 6%WOMEN'S CENTER OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $9k → 7%LA PUERTA ABIERTA INC: $20k → 7%THE COMMON MARKET: $9k → 22%PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM VALLEY YMCA: $10k → 7%THE ECO FOUNDATION: $25k → 22%LA PUERTA ABIERTA INC: $15k → 7%ESPERANZA IMMIGRATION LEGAL SERVICES: $9k → 22%JUNTOS: $10k → 22%THE LIGHTHOUSE INC: $25k → 22%VILLAGE OF ARTS & HUMANITIES: $13k → 22%THE VILLAGE OF ARTS & HUMANITIES: $9k → 22%SEAMAAC INC: $9k → 22%KITHS INTEGRATED AND TARGETED HUMAN SERVICES: $15k → 22%THE VILLAGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES: $5k → 22%THE VILLAGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES: $5k → 22%KITHS INTEGRATED AND TARGETED HUMAN SERVICES: $5k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $25k → 22%THE WELCOMING CENTER: $11k → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $10k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $9k → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $9k → 22%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $8k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY: $100k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY: $70k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY: $35k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY: $15k → 22%PUBLIC CITIZENS FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH: $9k → 22%TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN: $70k → 22%TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 22%UPLIFT CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $53k → 22%UPLIFT CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $9k → 22%AGAPE AFRICAN SENIOR CENTER: $20k → 22%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $9k → 22%ARDELLA'S HOUSE: $20k → 22%CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $23k → 22%CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILA: $9k → 22%GIRLS JUSTICE LEAGUE: $15k → 22%PEOPLE'S EMERGENCY CENTER: $10k → 22%P MICHAEL BOONE FOUNDATION: $50k → 22%RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: $20k → 22%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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
DC
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of The Barra Foundation Inc’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, 92% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 89% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Barra Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$14M · 215 repeat orgs$4.4M to everyone else

215 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2024, 162 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

215
134

Total granted

$14M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+49%

Still filing today

86%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther

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

  • PC
    PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $666k · revenue +68%
  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $605k · revenue +18%
  • IS
    IMPACT SERVICES CORPORATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $550k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • CU
    COLLEGE UNBOUND
    one grant, 2022 · $175k
  • PC
    PIDC COMMUNITY CAPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $175k · revenue +105%
  • AI
    ACADEMY IN MANAYUNKgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue +112%

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
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
2
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
3
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
4
Pidc Development Management Corporation

Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.

Community Improvement
5
Public Trust

Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.

Arts & Culture
6
Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment
7
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
8
Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation

The corporation's mission includes, but is not limited to, combatingcommunity deterioration within chinatown; preserving and developingthe chinatown community; leading the community in neighborhoodplanning, considering land use, and…

Community Improvement
9
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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10
Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates Inc

Mural arts - the city of philadelphia mural arts program unites artists and communities through a collaborative process rooted in the traditions of mural making, to create art that transforms public spaces and individual lives.

Arts & Culture
11
Philadelphia Public Access Corporation

Phillycam provides transformative opportunities for people and communities to express themselves, to learn from each other, and to produce and share media reflective of the experiences of everyday people.

—
12
Pidc Local Development Corporation

See schedule o.pidc-ldc administers, as a subrecipient of the city of philadelphia, various federally funded grant programs, including community development block grants, housing and urban development loans, and economic development…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Philadelphia Community Alliance and the most unlike its peers is NORTH10 Philadelphia. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyProfessional Association Ne…Early Childhood Care CentersYouth Development & Educati…Academic Medical CentersCharter and Independent Sch…Fraternal and Collegiate Or…Democracy and Civic Engagem…Youth Sports ProgramsFamily FoundationsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionCivil Legal Aid Organizatio…Faith-Based Community Assis…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr18%30%20–35yr11%25%35–55yr15%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%8%<5yr15%10%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr11%28%35–55yr15%16%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%5/305
the rest of the field
15%
1,869/12,659

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.

05the grantee network

294 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. 294 of the 387 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
87
Early backer (in before they grew)
289/294
Grantees still filing
207/294
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

IMPACT SERVICES CORPORATION — $550,000 · OtherIMPACT SERVICES CORPORATIONVESTEDIN — $350,000 · OtherRESEARCH FOR ACTION INC — $519,500 · OtherRESEARCH FOR ACTION INC+112 more — $6,669,986 · Other+112 moreDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $605,000 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $480,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE U…WORKSHOP LEARNING — $368,280 · EducationWORKSHOP LEARNINGCHILDREN'S LITERACY INITIATIVE — $316,500 · EducationCHILDREN'S LITERA…PHILADELPHIA LEARNING COLLABORATIVE — $300,000 · EducationPHILADELPHIA LEAR…ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK — $150,000 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $125,500 · EducationHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA — $101,500 · Education+12 more — $471,255 · Education+12 moreTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $751,250 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILADELP…NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $575,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHIL…SEACHANGE CAPITAL PARTNERS INC — $385,000 · PhilanthropySEACHANGE CAP…PHILANTHROPY NETWORK GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $282,050 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPY …+7 more — $169,015 · Philanthropy+7 moreARTREACH INC — $306,100 · Arts & CultureARTREACH INCCENTER FOR BLACK EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT — $210,500 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR B…MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $200,000 · Arts & CultureMANN CENTER …THE WILMA THEATER — $200,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WILMA TH…Famfrequency Productions Inc — $150,000 · Arts & CultureFamfrequency…THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE — $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FRANKLIN…BEARDED LADIES CABARET — $140,500 · Arts & CultureBEARDED LADI…GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE — $75,000 · Arts & CulturePIG IRON THEATRE COMPANY INC — $75,000 · Arts & Culture+17 more — $523,700 · Arts & Culture+17 morePHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC — $665,500 · Community ImprovementPHILADELP…Greenline Access Capital — $255,000 · Community ImprovementGreenline…PHILADELPHIA ACCELERATOR FUND — $200,000 · Community ImprovementPHILADELP…PIDC COMMUNITY CAPITAL — $175,000 · Community ImprovementPIDC COMM…CULTUREWORKS GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $125,000 · Community ImprovementCULTUREWO…THE ENTERPRISE CENTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $70,000 · Community ImprovementFORTRESS ARTS — $69,500 · Community Improvement+3 more — $86,500 · Community ImprovementCHILDREN'S CRISIS TREATMENT CENTER — $316,500 · HealthCONGRESO DE LATINOS UNIDOS INC — $275,000 · HealthGREEN & HEALTHY HOMES INITIATIVE INC — $100,000 · HealthVETRI FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN — $59,000 · HealthKELLY ANNE DOLAN MEMORIAL FUND — $52,500 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY — $50,000 · HealthNORTHEAST TREATMENT CENTERS INC — $40,000 · Health+6 more — $158,750 · HealthFOOD CONNECT CO — $476,050 · Food & NutritionTCG GROCERIES — $305,000 · Food & NutritionPhilabundance — $40,000 · Food & NutritionMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE — $36,500 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $18,300 · Food & Nutrition
Other$8,089,486Education$2,918,035Philanthropy$2,162,315Arts & Culture$2,030,800Community Improvement$1,646,500Health$1,051,750Food & Nutrition$875,850

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $751,250 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC — $665,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $605,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $575,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT SERVICES CORPORATION — $550,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetRESEARCH FOR ACTION INC — $519,500 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $480,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD CONNECT CO — $476,050 over 5y, 56% of budgetSEACHANGE CAPITAL PARTNERS INC — $385,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetWORKSHOP LEARNING — $368,280 over 3y, 46% of budgetVESTEDIN — $350,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCHILDREN'S LITERACY INITIATIVE — $316,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S CRISIS TREATMENT CENTER — $316,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetARTREACH INC — $306,100 over 4y, 15% of budgetTCG GROCERIES — $305,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetPHILADELPHIA LEARNING COLLABORATIVE — $300,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NETWORK GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $282,050 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetCONGRESO DE LATINOS UNIDOS INC — $275,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC — $262,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FOUNTAIN FUND — $259,000 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetGreenline Access Capital — $255,000 over 2y, 70% of budgetCollege Unbound — $225,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY — $220,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetCENTER FOR BLACK EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT — $210,500 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetPROMEDICA FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ACCELERATOR FUND — $200,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WILMA THEATER — $200,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetDEMOCRACY AT WORK INSTITUTE — $200,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetPIDC COMMUNITY CAPITAL — $175,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPATHWAYS TO HOUSING - PA — $166,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFamfrequency Productions Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetACADEMY IN MANAYUNK — $150,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSOCIAL IMPACT COMMONS INC — $150,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCOMMUNITY FIRST FUND — $150,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE — $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBEARDED LADIES CABARET — $140,500 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA — $135,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $125,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCULTUREWORKS GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $125,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ECONOMY LEAGUE INC — $110,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE HAND2PAW FOUNDATION — $110,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetWE LOVE PHILLY — $105,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA — $101,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetGREEN & HEALTHY HOMES INITIATIVE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBUILDING 21 — $97,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN — $95,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY — $83,906 over 2y, 7.4% 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.

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.

The William Penn Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…Independence Foundati…The Patricia Kind Fam…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Henrietta Tower Wurts…Connelly FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…The Philadelphia Cult…The Pew Charitable Tr…Claneil Foundation Inc
The William Penn FoundationPA200.1× affinity144 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Independence Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Connelly Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Claneil 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 Barra 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Inc — 100% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
90report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Barra Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Barra Foundation Inc 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 387 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.

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