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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 it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 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

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
$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
GREEN & HEALTHY HOMES INITIATIVE INC$100,000
DEMOCRACY AT WORK INSTITUTE$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

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.

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%SEAMAAC INC: $9k → 22%THE VILLAGE OF ARTS & HUMANITIES: $9k → 22%THE VILLAGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES: $5k → 22%KITHS INTEGRATED AND TARGETED HUMAN SERVICES: $15k → 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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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%.

The Barra Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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%
+48%

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
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.

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%
  • SI
    SOCIAL IMPACT COMMONS INCgraduated
    one 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.

04Its field

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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Philadelphia Community Alliance; 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.
05the grantee network

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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
86
Early backer (in before they grew)
289/294
Grantees still filing
208/294
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…THE WILMA THEATER: $200,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WILMA TH…MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $200,000 · Arts & CultureMANN CENTER …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 the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetPHILADELPHIA ACCELERATOR FUND: $200,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE WILMA THEATER: $200,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetPROMEDICA FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDEMOCRACY AT WORK INSTITUTE: $200,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetMANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPIDC COMMUNITY CAPITAL: $175,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPATHWAYS TO HOUSING - PA: $166,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FIRST FUND: $150,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSOCIAL IMPACT COMMONS INC: $150,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetFamfrequency Productions Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetACADEMY IN MANAYUNK: $150,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 budgetTHE HAND2PAW FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ECONOMY LEAGUE INC: $110,000 over 2y, 1.5% 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
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.

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.

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

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.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 387 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.

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