· Private foundation
The Brett and Deborah Barker 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 $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASHOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT - CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES DEPARTMENT | $50,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN NEVADA | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS | $40,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CABINET | $30,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| NORTHERN NEVADA HOPES | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE EDDY HOUSE | $10,000 |
| NORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO | $5,000 |
| SAFE TALK FOR TEENS | $5,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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 +33% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- FBFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +28%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC5× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +84%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS5× · 2020–2024 · $180k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- NNNORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- STSAFE TALK FOR TEENSone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -16%
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.
NVHC provides health services throughout the State of Nevada. Health services include OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Primary medical, Behavioral Health and dental care services. NVHC operates a mobile mammography clinic, two mobile…
To provide social, emotional, educational, and psychological support and programs to families of all children diagnosed with life threatening or critical illnesses and provide healing arts and wellness programs to adults touched by cancer…
To provide patient-centered, quality-driven, whole-person healthcare services, accessible to everyone in our community.
None
To provide leadership and support to members assisting them to advance both professional and community interests in long term care facilities.
To support programs providing the highest quality service to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. these services include a residential program at eagle valley children's home and a respite program provided in the…
The purpose of this corporation is to serve needy children by obtaining funding for medical, dental, mental health, and other necessary services which are otherwise unavailable, without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, sex,…
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Gallup community health's mission is to provide excellent and accessible medical care to our community, regardless of ability to pay.
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
The Organization provides a full range of high-quality healthcare to children and adolescents in Colorado regardless of insurance status or family's ability to pay. Our services are mainly for the under-served and at-risk youth, including…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Cabinet Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Health Alliance Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 13 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
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 Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds EDDY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northern Nevada HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE TALK FOR TEENS ↗
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: The E L Cord Foundation · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · Renown Health · Robert R Banks Foundation Inc · Roxie and Azad Joseph Foundation · Helen Close Charitable Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Tahoe Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Brett and Deborah Barker 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.