· Private foundation
The Barra Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $383k
- $50k–250k26 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+3 grants · $868k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| GREEN & HEALTHY HOMES INITIATIVE INC | $100,000 |
| DEMOCRACY AT WORK INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of The Barra Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 89%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PCPHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC5× · 2019–2024 · $666k · revenue +68%
- DUDREXEL UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $605k · revenue +18%
- ISIMPACT SERVICES CORPORATION4× · 2019–2022 · $550k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- CUCOLLEGE UNBOUNDone grant, 2022 · $175k
- PCPIDC COMMUNITY CAPITALgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $175k · revenue +105%
- SISOCIAL IMPACT COMMONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +49%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
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.
Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.
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.
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…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
294 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Barra Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Barra Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Inc: 100% of income from government
How this is measured
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