· Private foundation
The Charles and Elizabeth Barr Foundation
Its FY2025 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $225k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YEW DELL BOTANICAL GARDENS | $150,000 |
| SPEED ART MUSEUM | $70,000 |
| WEST END SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| KENTUCKY OPERA ASSOCIATION INC | $30,000 |
| IVY 1879 FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC | $25,000 |
| SEE INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA | $12,500 |
| LIBERTY HALL HISTORIC SITE | $12,500 |
| MACULA SOCIETY | $10,398 |
| SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| VISUALLY IMPAIRED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| RIVER FIELDS INC | $10,000 |
| ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PINE ISLAND CAMP INC | $10,000 |
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, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- SESURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC4× · 2022–2025 · $80k · revenue +39%
- TLTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC4× · 2022–2025 · $65k · revenue +42%
- I1IVY 1879 FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- KOKENTUCKY OPERAone grant, 2022 · $25k
- DHDUMBARTON HOUSEone grant, 2022 · $10k
- I1IVY 1879one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Louisville Free Public Library Foundatio and the most unlike its peers is West End School Inc. 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 46 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 60 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 YEW DELL INC ↗
- Who funds SPEED ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds West End School Inc ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds IVY 1879 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER FIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds Pine Island Camp ↗
- Who funds ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THE MACULA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ALLEGHENY VALLEY ↗
- Who funds WELLS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENT OREGON INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds JOIN ↗
- Who funds CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ↗
- Who funds The Potomac School ↗
- Who funds THE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
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: Barr Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Gardner Foundation Incorporated · Ina B Bond Ashbourne Charitable Fund Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Gilbert Foundation Inc · Limestone Family Foundation Inc · The Whippoorwill Family Foundation
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 Charles and Elizabeth Barr 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation — 16% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro East — 14% of income from government
- Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
- American Fisheries Society — 9% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Join — 4% of income from government
- Columbia Riverkeeper — 1% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Catlin Gabel School — 0% of income from government
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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