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The Barrios Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$473k
Granted FY2025still arriving
48
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$579kEducation$399kArts & Culture$320kRecreation & Sports$152kHuman Services$108kEnvironment$81kCrime & Legal$80kCivil Rights$66kOther$0
02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $420k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARTogether$15,000
Earth Island Institute$15,000
Harmony Project Bay Area$15,000
Hack the Hood$15,000
Ultimate Impact$12,500
Aspire Education Project$12,500
Oakland Literacy Coalition$12,500
Bay Area Urban Debate Commission$12,500
Blue Water Foundation$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Lincoln Child Center$10,000
Oakland Genesis$10,000
Students Rising Above$10,000
Cantare Con Vivo$10,000
Youth Beat$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $103k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Girl Ventures: $10k → 10%Aim High: $10k → 10%Girl Ventures: $8k → 10%Martin Luther King Jr Freedom Cente: $10k → 10%Camps in Common: $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
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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 77 repeat orgs$268k to everyone else

77 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
37

Total granted

$2.2M
$223k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+33%

Still filing today

77%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • Earth Island Institute Inc
    5× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +271%
  • DA
    Destiny Arts Center
    6× · 2018–2025 · $48k · revenue +109%
  • OS
    OAKLAND SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS
    5× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • BA
    BAY AREA CHILDRENS THEATRE FKA ACTIVE ARTS THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIEN
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -108%
  • CP
    College Prep Partners Program
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • AH
    ARISE HIGH SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +27%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Oakland Public Education Fund; 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.
04the grantee network

94 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 94 of the 118 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/94
Grantees still filing
65/94
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HEALTH INITIATIVES FOR YOUTH INC: $40,000 · OtherYOUTH ALIVE: $35,000 · OtherChabot Space Science Center: $32,500 · OtherMartin Luther King Jr Freedom Cente: $32,500 · OtherSpanish Speaking Citizens Foundatio: $30,950 · OtherLincoln: $37,500 · OtherFamily Paths Inc: $30,000 · OtherCHILDREN RISING INC: $32,500 · OtherEAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC: $30,000 · Other+40 more: $529,000 · Other+40 moreTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $155,060 · EducationTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCAT…OAKLAND SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $45,000 · EducationOAKLAND SCHOOL FOR THE AR…THE CRUCIBLE: $45,000 · EducationTHE CRUCIBLECommunity Resources for Science: $43,500 · EducationCommunity Resources for S…Oakland Leaf Foundation: $40,000 · EducationOakland Leaf FoundationASPIRE EDUCATION PROJECT: $37,500 · EducationASPIRE EDUCATION PROJECTREADING PARTNERS: $27,500 · EducationOakland Literacy Coalition Inc: $22,500 · EducationBAY AREA URBAN DEBATE COMMISSION: $20,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR LEARNING DBA WRITERCOACH CONNECTION: $20,000 · Education+12 more: $93,250 · Education+12 moreWATERSIDE WORKSHOPS: $42,500 · Arts & CultureWATERSIDE WORKSHOP…Chapter 510 Ink: $40,000 · Arts & CultureChapter 510 InkCANTARE CON VIVO: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCANTARE CON VIVOTHE PEOPLES CONSERVATORY: $37,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PEOPLES CONSER…ARTogether: $35,000 · Arts & CultureARTogetherOAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA: $35,000 · Arts & CultureOAKLAND MUSEUM OF …Prescott Circus Theatre: $32,500 · Arts & CulturePrescott Circus Th…Hack the Hood Inc: $32,500 · Arts & CultureHack the Hood IncPiedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir: $32,500 · Arts & CulturePiedmont Choirs db…OAKLAND INTERFAITH GOSPEL CHOIR INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureOAKLAND INTERFAITH…Harmony Project Bay Area Inc: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $22,500 · Arts & Culture+4 moreDestiny Arts Center: $47,500 · Recreation & SportsDestiny Art…Battle Tested Kids INC: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsBattle Test…Oakland Childrens Fairyland Inc: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsOakland Chi…Oakland Genesis DBA Oakland Genesis Soccer Club: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsOakland Gen…BAY AREA SCORES: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsBAY AREA SC…Oakland Soccer Club: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsOakland Soc…SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsSOCCER WITH…RUNNING FOR A BETTER OAKLAND: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsRUNNING FOR…BLUE WATER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsFRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC: $42,500 · Youth DevelopmentFRESH LIFE…CAMP PHOENIX: $37,500 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP PHOEN…Ultimate Impact Inc: $31,500 · Youth DevelopmentUltimate I…Mindful Life Project: $30,500 · Youth DevelopmentMindful Li…BAY AREA GIRLS ROCK CAMP: $27,500 · Youth DevelopmentBAY AREA G…GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUT…ACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentACTA NON V…ELEVATE TUTORING INC: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentELEVATE TU…+2 more: $9,570 · Youth DevelopmentAIM HIGH: $37,500 · Human ServicesBEYOND EMANCIPATION: $35,000 · Human ServicesCamps in Common: $30,000 · Human ServicesGIRLVENTURES: $17,500 · Human ServicesTHE MARTIN LUTHER KING JRFREEDOM CTR: $10,000 · Human ServicesEarth Island Institute Inc: $75,000 · EnvironmentVIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION: $15,000 · EnvironmentTHINGS THAT CREEP: $10,000 · Environment350 BAY AREA: $5,000 · EnvironmentGolden Gate Bird Alliance Prev Golden Gate Audubon Society Inc: $5,000 · Environment+2 more: $3,500 · Environment
Other$829,950Education$549,310Arts & Culture$395,000Recreation & Sports$245,000Youth Development$224,070Human Services$130,000Environment$113,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $155,060 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDestiny Arts Center: $47,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetOAKLAND SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CRUCIBLE: $45,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Resources for Science: $43,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetWATERSIDE WORKSHOPS: $42,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetFRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC: $42,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH INITIATIVES FOR YOUTH INC: $40,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetChapter 510 Ink: $40,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetOakland Leaf Foundation: $40,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCANTARE CON VIVO: $40,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCAMP PHOENIX: $37,500 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetTHE PEOPLES CONSERVATORY: $37,500 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetLincoln: $37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetASPIRE EDUCATION PROJECT: $37,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetAIM HIGH: $37,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetBEYOND EMANCIPATION: $35,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBattle Tested Kids INC: $35,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetARTogether: $35,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetOAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH ALIVE: $35,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPrescott Circus Theatre: $32,500 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetCHILDREN RISING INC: $32,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetHack the Hood Inc: $32,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPiedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir: $32,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUltimate Impact Inc: $31,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMindful Life Project: $30,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetOAKLAND INTERFAITH GOSPEL CHOIR INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetOakland Childrens Fairyland Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOakland Genesis DBA Oakland Genesis Soccer Club: $30,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetCamps in Common: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFamily Paths Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEast Bay Agency for Children: $27,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA GIRLS ROCK CAMP: $27,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLuna Kids Dance Inc dba Luna Dance Institute Luna Dance & Creativity: $25,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBAY AREA SCORES: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MENTORING CENTER: $22,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetOakland Literacy Coalition Inc: $22,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOakland Soccer Club: $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEast Oakland Youth Development Center: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBAY AREA URBAN DEBATE COMMISSION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Destiny Arts Center ↗
  • Who funds OAKLAND SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds THE CRUCIBLE ↗
  • Who funds Community Resources for Science ↗
  • Who funds WATERSIDE WORKSHOPS ↗
  • Who funds FRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH INITIATIVES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds Chapter 510 Ink ↗
  • Who funds Oakland Leaf Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CANTARE CON VIVO ↗
  • Who funds CAMP PHOENIX ↗
  • Who funds THE PEOPLES CONSERVATORY ↗
  • Who funds Lincoln ↗
  • Who funds ASPIRE EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds AIM HIGH ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND EMANCIPATION ↗
  • Who funds Battle Tested Kids INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTogether ↗
  • Who funds OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH ALIVE ↗
  • Who funds Prescott Circus Theatre ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN RISING INC ↗
  • Who funds Hack the Hood Inc ↗
  • Who funds Piedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir ↗
  • Who funds Ultimate Impact Inc ↗
  • Who funds Mindful Life Project ↗
  • Who funds OAKLAND INTERFAITH GOSPEL CHOIR INC ↗
  • Who funds Oakland Childrens Fairyland Inc ↗
  • Who funds Oakland Genesis DBA Oakland Genesis Soccer Club ↗
  • Who funds Camps in Common ↗
  • Who funds EAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Family Paths Inc ↗
  • Who funds East Bay Agency for Children ↗
  • Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds BAY AREA GIRLS ROCK CAMP ↗

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.

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

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 Barrios Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Barrios Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
    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.

    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 118 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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