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The Barrios Trust

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.

$416k
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Youth Development$579kEducation$399kArts & Culture$320kRecreation & Sports$152kHuman Services$108kEnvironment$81kCrime & Legal$80kCivil Rights$66kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $378k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$970k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir$15,000
Oakland Museum of California$12,500
Camps in Common$10,000
Martin Luther King Jr Freedom Cente$10,000
Earth Island Institute$10,000
Oakland Soccer Club$10,000
Running for Better Oakland$10,000
Things That Creep$10,000
College Prep Partners Program$10,000
Vida Verde Nature Education$10,000
Hack the Hood$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
BORP$10,000
Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir$10,000
Aim High$10,000
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 (FY17–24, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Girl Ventures: $10k → 10%Aim High: $10k → 10%Martin Luther King Jr Freedom Cente: $10k → 10%Camps in Common: $10k → 10%Camps in Common: $10k → 10%Beyond Emancipation: $10k → 10%Beyond Emancipation: $8k → 10%Beyond Emancipation: $8k → 10%Beyond Emancipation: $5k → 10%Beyond Emancipation: $5k → 10%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.

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.

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 64 repeat orgs$341k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

64 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
35

Total granted

$1.7M
$203k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+33%

Still filing today

78%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • Earth Island Institute Inc
    4× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +271%
  • OL
    Oakland Leaf Foundation
    5× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +79%
  • DA
    Destiny Arts Center
    5× · 2018–2022 · $38k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of California Cal Perfor
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR LEARNING DBA WRITERCOACH CONNECTION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -17%
  • CF
    Center for Popular Research
    one grant, 2017 · $10k

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
Oakland Kids First

The mission of Oakland Kids First is to increase youth voice, leadership and power to create engaging and equitable public schools where all students learn and lead.

Youth Development
2
Arts for Oakland Kids

To advance arts justice by ensuring that all students in under-resourced oakland public schools receive a comprehensive arts education in order to improve learning and promote achievement.

Arts & Culture
3
Lead Liberated

Through coaching and group facilitation, leaders of color heal from racism, develop skills to identify & interrupt racism in personal leadership, organizational practices & policies, and produce antiracist solutions in partnership with…

Education
4
California School-Age Consortium Inc

The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…

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5
Institute for Applied Tinkering

Institute for Applied Tinkering IAT develops, practices and shares educational methods that challenge and support all children to engage deeply in their learning via real interests and real tools.

Youth Development
6
Oakland Digital Arts and Literacy Center Inc

BRIDGEGOOD increases opportunity and digital literacy for under-resourced students with a focus on Black Indigenous and Women People of Color. We prepare first-generation college students for careers in UX UI and Visual Design while…

Education
7
Unity Schools

To prepare its students for admission to and success in college and career,and to become happy and productive members of society.

Education
8
Youth in Arts

Youth in Arts builds visual and performing arts skills through innovative and in-depth programs that foster confidence, compassion and resilience in students of all abilities. We develop capacity among educators and teaching artists,…

Arts & Culture
9
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
10
Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
11
Bay Area Creative Foundation

The Bay Area Creative Foundation celebrates, cultivates, and inspires creativity in youth and young adults. We believe in fostering a society that embodies creative spirit, art, and innovation.

Arts & Culture
12
Bay Area Creative Bac

Bay area creative supports positive change through creative and expressive arts that uphold cultures, provide therapeutic benefits, and to enhance communication skills primarily in underrepresented communities. We are driven by our…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Oakland Public Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Aim High. 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 backsteadyYouth Empowerment & Leaders…Oakland Community Developme…Family FoundationsCommunity Service ClubsCommunity Support ServicesK-8 Charter and Independent…East Bay Community Organiza…Social Justice Research & A…Arts Education & Youth Prog…
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 24 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%4%<5yr15%7%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr18%41%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr12%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%4%<5yr15%5%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr18%48%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr12%6%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/90
the rest of the field
12%
2,056/16,592

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.

04the grantee network

90 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. 90 of the 114 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/90
Grantees still filing
64/90
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Martin Luther King Jr Freedom Cente — $32,500 · OtherSpanish Speaking Citizens Foundatio — $30,950 · OtherHEALTH INITIATIVES FOR YOUTH INC — $30,000 · OtherYOUTH ALIVE — $25,000 · OtherEarth Island Institute Inc — $50,000 · OtherEarth Island Institute IncCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $25,000 · OtherCHILDREN RISING INC — $32,500 · OtherEAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC — $30,000 · Other+44 more — $467,500 · Other+44 moreTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $155,060 · EducationTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCAT…Oakland Leaf Foundation — $40,000 · EducationOakland Leaf FoundationOAKLAND SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS — $35,000 · EducationOAKLAND SCHOOL FOR THE AR…THE CRUCIBLE — $35,000 · EducationTHE CRUCIBLECommunity Resources for Science — $33,500 · EducationCommunity Resources for S…READING PARTNERS — $27,500 · EducationREADING PARTNERSASPIRE EDUCATION PROJECT — $25,000 · EducationASPIRE EDUCATION PROJECT+14 more — $97,750 · Education+14 moreTHE PEOPLES CONSERVATORY — $37,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PEOPLES CONS…WATERSIDE WORKSHOPS — $35,000 · Arts & CultureWATERSIDE WORKSH…Piedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir — $32,500 · Arts & CulturePiedmont Choirs …CANTARE CON VIVO — $30,000 · Arts & CultureCANTARE CON VIVOChapter 510 Ink — $30,000 · Arts & CultureChapter 510 InkOAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA — $30,000 · Arts & CultureOAKLAND MUSEUM O…Prescott Circus Theatre — $22,500 · Arts & CulturePrescott Circus …OAKLAND INTERFAITH GOSPEL CHOIR INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureOAKLAND INTERFAI…ARTogether — $20,000 · Arts & CultureARTogetherHack the Hood Inc — $17,500 · Arts & CultureHack the Hood In…+3 more — $12,500 · Arts & CultureCAMP PHOENIX — $37,500 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP PHOEN…Mindful Life Project — $30,500 · Youth DevelopmentMindful Li…BAY AREA GIRLS ROCK CAMP — $27,500 · Youth DevelopmentBAY AREA G…FRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRESH LIFE…Ultimate Impact Inc — $19,000 · Youth DevelopmentUltimate I…GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUT…ACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentACTA NON V…+3 more — $14,570 · Youth Development+3 moreDestiny Arts Center — $37,500 · Recreation & SportsDestiny A…Oakland Childrens Fairyland Inc — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsOakland C…BAY AREA SCORES — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsBAY AREA …Battle Tested Kids INC — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsBattle Te…Oakland Genesis DBA Oakland Genesis Soccer Club — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsOakland G…SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsSOCCER WI…Oakland Soccer Club — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsOakland S…RUNNING FOR A BETTER OAKLAND — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsRUNNING F…Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation — $7,500 · Recreation & SportsBEYOND EMANCIPATION — $35,000 · Human ServicesAIM HIGH — $27,500 · Human ServicesCamps in Common — $20,000 · Human ServicesGIRLVENTURES — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE MARTIN LUTHER KING JRFREEDOM CTR — $10,000 · Human ServicesFamily Paths Inc — $30,000 · HealthLincoln — $27,500 · HealthEast Bay Agency for Children — $27,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN — $5,000 · Health
Other$723,450Education$448,810Arts & Culture$287,500Youth Development$186,570Recreation & Sports$175,000Human Services$102,500Health$90,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $155,060 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOakland Leaf Foundation — $40,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCAMP PHOENIX — $37,500 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetTHE PEOPLES CONSERVATORY — $37,500 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetDestiny Arts Center — $37,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWATERSIDE WORKSHOPS — $35,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetOAKLAND SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS — $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CRUCIBLE — $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBEYOND EMANCIPATION — $35,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Resources for Science — $33,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetPiedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir — $32,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN RISING INC — $32,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMindful Life Project — $30,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFamily Paths Inc — $30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCANTARE CON VIVO — $30,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetChapter 510 Ink — $30,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetHEALTH INITIATIVES FOR YOUTH INC — $30,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetOAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOakland Childrens Fairyland Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetREADING PARTNERS — $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLincoln — $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA GIRLS ROCK CAMP — $27,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetEast Bay Agency for Children — $27,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAIM HIGH — $27,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH ALIVE — $25,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetASPIRE EDUCATION PROJECT — $25,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetBAY AREA SCORES — $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBattle Tested Kids INC — $25,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetTHE MENTORING CENTER — $22,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPrescott Circus Theatre — $22,500 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp — $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEast Oakland Youth Development Center — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCamps in Common — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOAKLAND INTERFAITH GOSPEL CHOIR INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetARTogether — $20,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetOakland Genesis DBA Oakland Genesis Soccer Club — $20,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetUltimate Impact Inc — $19,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHack the Hood Inc — $17,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLuna Kids Dance Inc dba Luna Dance Institute Luna Dance & Creativity — $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSUPER STARS LITERACY INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT — $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetREGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION — $14,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

East Bay Community Fo…The San Francisco Fou…The Morris Stulsaft F…Quest FoundationBernard E & Alba Witk…Lowell Berry Foundati…T Gary and Kathleen R…The Joseph and Vera L…The James Irvine Foun…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The Oakland Public Ed…Silicon Valley Commun…
East Bay Community FoundationCA85.2× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · Quest Foundation · Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation · Lowell Berry Foundation · T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Private Family Foundation · The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Oakland Public Education Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation

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 Barrios Trust 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 · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.

    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 114 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.

    Source object · view filing

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