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The Richard W & Elaine E Barrett Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$632k
Granted FY2019
14
Grants FY2019
11
Organizations funded FY2019
82%
First-time grantees FY2019
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91% of The Richard W & Elaine E Barrett Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year The Richard W & Elaine E Barrett Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $632k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’17
1
’18
10
’19
3
’20
4
’21
4
’22
2
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2019
$34,500
Largest grant, FY2019
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 11
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
5
Total assets, FY2019
$6.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 82% of the organizations The Richard W & Elaine E Barrett Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 73% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $461k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
AnimalsEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201911$632k82%
FY20183$351k100%
FY20176$256kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$922kHealth$483kEnvironment$291kCommunity Improvement$200kAnimals$134kRecreation & Sports$53kScience & Tech$35kYouth Development$26kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
NY
CA
CO
VA
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 17 grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($304k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Richard W & Elaine E Barrett Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMills College: $450,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHelpers United Inc: $389,402 over 4y, 68% of budgetEagle Valley Land Trust: $200,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetUniversity of Vermont and State Agricultural College Foundation Inc: $172,424 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAnimal Friends Alliance: $70,864 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetAfrican Parks Foundation of America: $53,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNorth American Friends of Israel Oceanographic Research Inc: $34,500 over 1y, 43% of budgetSos Outreach: $26,250 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAssert the Second Responders Inc: $26,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetWildaid Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWildlife Conservation Network Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmerald Coast Wildlife Refuge Inc: $3,880 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Humane Society of Boulder Valley Inc: $3,272 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBirds of Prey Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRainforest Trust: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Amg Charitable Gift FoundationCO15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The Richard W & Elaine E Barrett Foundation

How much does The Richard W & Elaine E Barrett Foundation give?
The Richard W & Elaine E Barrett Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $631,538 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does The Richard W & Elaine E Barrett Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (43%), Health (22%), Environment (13%).
Who are The Richard W & Elaine E Barrett Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mills College ($450k), Helpers United Inc ($389k), Eagle Valley Land Trust ($200k).
Does The Richard W & Elaine E Barrett Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 82% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Richard W & Elaine E Barrett Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Richard W & Elaine E Barrett Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amg Charitable Gift Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is The Richard W & Elaine E Barrett Foundation based?
The Richard W & Elaine E Barrett Foundation is based in CO.

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 22 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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