· Private foundation
The Barry 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k311 grants · $664k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $688k
- $250k+1 grant · $335k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation | $335,000 |
| Venn Foundation | $197,500 |
| Young Life Castaway Club | $150,000 |
| JPII Catholic Schools | $140,000 |
| Ottertail County Humane Society | $100,000 |
| Mayo Foundation | $100,000 |
| Simpson Housing Services Inc | $25,000 |
| Ann Bancroft Foundation | $25,000 |
| Churches United for the Homeless | $10,000 |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | $10,000 |
| Folkways fiscal host FM Area Foundation | $10,000 |
| University of North Dakota | $6,100 |
| Harvest Hope Farm | $6,000 |
| Lake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity | $6,000 |
| Creative Care for Reaching Independence Inc | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $324k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of The Barry Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 46% of the giving stays in ND; read by stated purpose it is 38% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
184 repeat relationships — 115 still active in FY2024, 69 since wound down; 51 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TRTHEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $670k · revenue +100%
- SHSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $635k · revenue +125%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DETROIT LAKES3× · 2020–2022 · $177k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- TWThe Winnipeg Foundation USAone grant, 2021 · $100k
- MLMINNESOTA LAND TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +155%
- SASUMMIT ACADEMY OICone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -38%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Together, we create a warm and welcoming community enriching the lives of those we support.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
The northland foundation supports northeastern minnesota people and communities working toward a future where everyone feels they belong and can thrive.
Lss housing will support the continued vitality of north dakota communities by providing housing and housing-related services.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.
At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…
We make a positive difference in the health of the patients and communities we serve.
Providing direct and indirect services in the areas of mental health, developmental disabilites, and substance use to residents of aitkin, cass, crow wing, morrison, todd, and wadena counties.
To promote equal access to justice and improve the lives of low-income clients through quality legal assistance
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of North Dakota and the most unlike its peers is Warm Blanket Hugs. 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.
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 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
213 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. 213 of the 355 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF OTTER TAIL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds VENN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DETROIT LAKES ↗
- Who funds North Dakota State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Great Plains Food Bank ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds DLCCC INC ↗
- Who funds ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
- Who funds NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CLARE HOUSING ↗
- Who funds University of Jamestown ↗
- Who funds YWCA CASS CLAY ↗
- Who funds ONE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES UNITED ↗
- Who funds LAKES CRISIS AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS INQUIRY INC ↗
- Who funds Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Dakota Medical Foundation · Alex Stern Family Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Offutt Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Sanford Group Return · Impact Foundation · North Dakota Community Foundation · United Way of Cass-Clay · Dakota Medical Charities
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 Barry Foundation 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.
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.
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