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The Barrist Family Foundation at a glance

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The Barrist Family Foundation

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.

$188k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.9MHealth$205kYouth Development$177kArts & Culture$32kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $133k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$50,000
NORTH PENN VALLEY BOYS AND GIRLS CL$33,333
LEIGH LECKERMAN SCHOLARSHIP$30,000
THE MCKEOWN FOUNDATION$25,000
PHILA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL$25,000
EORO FOUNDATION INC$10,000
CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LEIGH LECKERMAN SCHOLARSHIP: $35k → 6%THE MCKEOWN FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%LIVENGRIN FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%YOUTH BUILD PHILLY CHARTER SCHOOL: $10k → 22%TUNNEL TO TOWRS FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%NEWHOUSE SCHOOL - SYRACUSE UNIV: $20k → 14%EORO FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 11%LEIGH LECKERMAN SCHOLARSHIP: $30k → 6%NORTH PENN VALLEY BOYS AND GIRLS CL: $33k → 7%LIVENGRIN FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%PHILA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $35k → 22%NEWHOUSE SCHOOL SYRACUSE UNIV: $20k → 14%LEIGH LECKERMAN SCHOLARSHIP: $30k → 6%NORTH PENN VALLEY BOYS AND GIRLS CL: $33k → 7%PHILA OUTWARD BOUND: $30k → 22%NEWHOUSE SCHOOL - SYRACUSE UNIV: $20k → 14%LEIGH LECKERMAN SCHOLARSHIP: $30k → 6%NORTH PENN VALLEY BOYS AND GIRLS CL: $20k → 7%PHILA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $25k → 22%LEIGH LECKERMAN SCHOLARSHIP: $25k → 6%NORTH PENN VALLEY BOYS AND GIRLS CL: $15k → 7%PHILA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $25k → 22%THE LEIGH LECKERMAN FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%NORTH PENN VALLEY BOYS GIRLS CL: $15k → 7%PHILA OUTWARD BOUND: $20k → 22%SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY: $315k → 22%PHILA OUTWARD BOUND: $20k → 22%SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY: $310k → 22%GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY: $93k → 7%PHILA OUTWARD BOUND: $20k → 22%GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY: $59k → 7%SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY: $300k → 22%GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY: $40k → 7%PHILA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $20k → 22%GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY: $20k → 7%SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY: $25k → 22%GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY: $20k → 7%PHILADELPHIA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $20k → 22%SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY: $25k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50k → 22%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $20k → 22%CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $100k → 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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 13 repeat orgs$106k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
8

Total granted

$2.0M
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+11%

Still filing today

54%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SC
    SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $975k · revenue +36%
  • TL
    THE LEIGH LECKERMAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    5× · 2021–2025 · $150k · revenue +20%
  • NP
    NORTH PENN VALLEY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $122k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • PO
    PHILADELPHIA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • NP
    NORTH PENN VALLEY BOYS GIRLS CL
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • FL
    FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +11%
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
Seton Hill University

Comprehensive institution of higher learning providing undergraduate and graduate student education.

Education
2
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
3
Chatham University

Chatham university prepares women and men to be world ready: to build lives of purpose and value and fulfilling work. (see continuation on schedule o)in addition to appropriate professional skills and liberal arts learning, chatham…

Education
4
Alvernia University

Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.

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5
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
6
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
7
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
8
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
9
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
10
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
11
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
12
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Mckeown Foundation Co Joseph Mckeown. 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

10 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. 10 of the 23 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY: $975,000 · EducationSPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMYTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $350,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAGWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY: $231,000 · EducationGWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITYCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA: $110,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA+1 more: $30,000 · EducationPHILA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $105,000 · OtherPHILA OUTWARD BOUND…Individual grant recipient: $90,000 · OtherIndividual grant re…NEWHOUSE SCHOOL - SYRACUSE UNIV: $80,000 · OtherNEWHOUSE SCHOOL - S…EORO FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · OtherEORO FOUNDATION INCTHE LEIGH LECKERMAN FOUNDATION: $22,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $15,000 · OtherNORTH PENN VALLEY BOYS GIRLS CL: $15,000 · Other+6 more: $46,000 · Other+6 moreTHE LEIGH LECKERMAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $150,000 · HealthLIVENGRIN FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · HealthNORTH PENN VALLEY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $121,667 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MCKEOWN FOUNDATION CO JOSEPH MCKEOWN: $25,000 · Philanthropy
Education$1,696,000Other$423,000Health$180,000Youth Development$121,667Philanthropy$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY: $975,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $350,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY: $231,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEIGH LECKERMAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $150,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetNORTH PENN VALLEY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $121,667 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA: $110,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIVENGRIN FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE LEIGH LECKERMAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
  • Who funds NORTH PENN VALLEY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LIVENGRIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MCKEOWN FOUNDATION CO JOSEPH MCKEOWN ↗
  • Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗

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 Philadelphia Foun…Chubb Charitable Foun…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Philadelphia FoundationPA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Barrist Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Barrist Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 23 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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