· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Folkways fiscal host FM Area Foundation | $10,000 |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | $10,000 |
| University of North Dakota | $6,100 |
| YWCA Cass Clay | $6,000 |
| Creative Care for Reaching Independence Inc | $6,000 |
| Harvest Hope Farm | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of The Barry Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 46% of the giving stays in ND; by stated purpose, 38%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
213 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. 213 of the 355 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Barry Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Barry Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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