· 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 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 $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 |
| THE EDDY HOUSE | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| NORTHERN NEVADA HOPES | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO | $5,000 |
| NORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SAFE TALK FOR TEENS | $5,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +33% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 13 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
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Brett and Deborah Barker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brett and Deborah Barker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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