· Private foundation
The Charles Barkley Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| EDUCATION REFORM NOW | $100,000 |
| PATHS FOR SUCCESS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| LEEDS CITY SCHOOLS | $100,000 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| BETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| SPELMAN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| MOREHOUSE COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| HELPING HANDS FOR SINGLE MOMS | $100,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR ALABAMA CHAPTER | $100,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR | $100,000 |
| ST MARY'S ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| MILES COLLEGE | $100,000 |
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, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 8 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $650k 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
- CAClark Atlanta University Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $900k · revenue +55%
- MCMOREHOUSE COLLEGE6× · 2017–2024 · $700k · revenue +69%
- TUTuskegee University4× · 2021–2024 · $400k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NE GEORGIAone grant, 2021 · $250k
- MFMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +32%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
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 primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Allen University is an academic community which provides students an opportunity to obtain baccalaureate and graduate degrees in liberal arts and professional programs in traditional and distance education formats. The University has a…
The morningside university experience cultivates a passion for life-long learning and a dedication to ethical leadership and civic responsibility.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
To offer women an education conducive to excellence in scholarly pursuits, preparation for leadership roles in the workplace, society, and the world, and life-long learning in a technologically advanced, complex global society.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spelman College and the most unlike its peers is Vidal Access Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 30 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 Clark Atlanta University Inc ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Miles College Inc ↗
- Who funds Tuskegee University ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION REFORM NOW INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR ALABAMA CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS FOR SINGLE MOMS ↗
- Who funds VIDAL ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds Street Grace Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSIC WILL INC ↗
- Who funds Spelman College ↗
- Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS 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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Barkley Foundation Inc 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.
- Bethune-Cookman University — 6% 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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