Kentucky · 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.
- $515k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 33
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations The Charles and Elizabeth Barr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $510k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $436k | 41% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $324k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $325k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yew Dell Inc | $500,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Speed Art Museum | $235,000 | 4 | 0% |
| West End School Inc | $90,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Surgical Eye Expeditions International Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Kentucky Opera Association Inc | $80,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Louisville Orchestra Inc | $65,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ivy 1879 Foundation Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Visually Imparied Preschool Services Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Pine Island Camp | $30,000 | 4 | 1% |
| River Fields Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($202k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Charles and Elizabeth Barr Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
Compare The Charles and Elizabeth Barr Foundation with peer funders
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About The Charles and Elizabeth Barr Foundation
- How much does The Charles and Elizabeth Barr Foundation give?
- The Charles and Elizabeth Barr Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $515,398 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 33 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does The Charles and Elizabeth Barr Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (35%), Arts & Culture (31%), Education (19%).
- Who are The Charles and Elizabeth Barr Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Yew Dell Inc ($500k), Speed Art Museum ($235k), West End School Inc ($90k).
- Does The Charles and Elizabeth Barr Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Charles and Elizabeth Barr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Charles and Elizabeth Barr Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Barr Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, The Gheens Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Charles and Elizabeth Barr Foundation based?
- The Charles and Elizabeth Barr Foundation is based in KY.
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