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The Barrow Community Foundation Inc

Barrow Community Foundation enhances quality of life by focusing on the educational, social, environmental, and economic needs of the residents of Barrow County, Georgia.

$635k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$318k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $164k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $153k
  • $250k+1 grant · $318k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Barrow County School System$317,989
Barrow Ministry Village$152,500
Apalachee High School$32,319
New Path 1010 Inc$30,000
Brightpaths$20,000
Spirit of Sharing Inc$20,000
Project Adam Community Assistance$17,050
Kates Club$15,000
Freedom Path Counseling$10,000
Amazing Friends Club$10,000
St Vincent De Paul$10,000
02The need
02

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 (FY24–25, $308k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Kates Club: $15k → 14%Area Committee To Improve Opp Now: $10k → 27%Barrow Ministry Village: $153k → 9%Barrow Ministry Village: $94k → 9%St Vincent De Paul Winder: $15k → 9%St Vincent De Paul: $10k → 9%Amazing Friends Club: $10k → 9%Adventure Bags Inc: $2k → 9%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.
$3.9M · 3 repeat orgs$208k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$3.9M
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+0%

Still filing today

67%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
Human ServicesCivil RightsHealthReligionOther
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

  • BC
    Barrow County School System
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3.6M
  • BM
    BARROW MINISTRY VILLAGE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $246k · revenue 0%
  • SO
    SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $25k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • BC
    BARROW COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE EMPLOYEE FUND INC
    one grant, 2024 · $26k
  • BC
    BARROW COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
    one grant, 2024 · $22k
  • BF
    BARROW FIRE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
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
Safe Haven Counseling Associates in

Biblical counseling

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2
Life Training Ministries Inc

Christian counseling for individuals with anxiety depression or other emotional struggles. Christian counseling for marriages and other couples.

Human Services
3
Blessings Working Together Inc

Provide counseling and life skills

Human Services
4
New Beginnings Therapy Services Inc

Family therapy primarily fee based holistic education and theraputic care for individuals, couples and familes within a christ centered envoirnment. therapy sessions

Human Services
5
Lighting the Way Transition House

Counseling service

Crime & Legal
6
Hopewell Ministries

To provide Christian counseling.

Human Services
7
The Way Counseling Network Inc

The way counseling is a counseling entity whose ministry is dedicated to sharing the love and compassion of jesus christ. the way is offers professional, affordable counseling services to people in deed and to provide a supportive place…

Human Services
8
Active Community Health Center of Broward Inc

We are and Agency created on the fundamental value that strengthening one family at a time will transform our community as a whole. we believe that all people should have access to behavioral healt servicesa and to live a fulfilling life.…

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9
Southeastern Oklahoma Family Services Inc

Provide mental health counseling to needy families and persons in south central Oklahoma

Recreation & Sports
10
Just Alternatives
Social Science
11
Caring Counseling Ministries

Biblical family counseling

Human Services
12
Life Journey Counseling Inc
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Barrow Ministry Village Inc; the most unlike its peers is Amazing Friends Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the 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 17 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
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Barrow County School System: $3,605,173 · OtherBarrow County School System+7 more: $113,487 · OtherBARROW MINISTRY VILLAGE INC: $246,000 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesKATE'S CLUB INC: $15,000 · Human Services+3 more: $22,150 · Human ServicesNEW PATH 1010 INC: $30,000 · Civil RightsPROJECT ADAM COMMUNITY ASST CT: $17,050 · HealthFREEDOM PATH COUNSELING INC: $10,000 · Religion
Other$3,718,660Human Services$308,150Civil Rights$30,000Health$17,050Religion$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBARROW MINISTRY VILLAGE INC: $246,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetNEW PATH 1010 INC: $30,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKATE'S CLUB INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmazing Friends Club: $10,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetAREA COMMITTEE TO IMPROVE OPPORTUNITIES NOW INC: $9,950 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF ATHENS INC: $6,240 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetADVENTURE BAGS INC: $2,200 over 1y, 0.9% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Athens Area Community…
Athens Area Community Foundation IncGA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Barrow Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Barrow Community Foundation Inc. 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%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Barrow Community Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Barrow Community 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 17 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 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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