· Private foundation
The Coeta and Donald Barker 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $125k
- $10k–50k68 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k4 grants · $435k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEACE HEALTH SACRED HEART MEDICAL | $165,000 |
| EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIO | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| MIZZELL CENTER | $55,000 |
| SOUTH WEST COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $44,000 |
| PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM | $36,050 |
| UNITY SHOPPE | $32,500 |
| UNITED BOYS & GIRLS OF SANTA BARBAR | $30,000 |
| SANSUM DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CULTURAL CENTER | $30,000 |
| EUGENE MISSION | $29,500 |
| FOUNDATION OF PALM SPRINGS | $27,500 |
| CATHEDRAL CITY SENIOR CENTER | $25,000 |
| DESERT AIDS PROJECT | $25,000 |
| PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +49% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.
107 repeat relationships: 62 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 41 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $360k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $842k · revenue +182%- COCollege of the Desert Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $760k · revenue +71%
PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC7× · 2019–2025 · $322k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- LGLOOKING GLASS YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICone grant, 2017 · $50k
- PSPEACEHEALTH SACRED HEART MEDICAL CEone grant, 2017 · $25k
- USUNITED SERVICE ORG BOB HOPE USOone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
Smvdm is a california public benefit corporation whose mission is to foster family and youth inspired learining by creating experiences to explore ourselves, our valley, our world, and beyond. smvdm serves schools, families, and youth…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…
Valle del sol inspires positive change by investing in health and human services to strengthen families with tools and skills for self-sufficiency and by building the next generation of latino and diverse leaders.
The Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce is a regional chamber formed in 2016 to support a diverse business community that spans nearly forty-five miles and serves the needs of nearly 500,000 visitors each year. As a business…
Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.
To conserve natural resources, agricultural land and open spaces for present and future generations.
Cancer support community valley/ventura/santa barbaras mission is to uplift and strengthen people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.
To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.
Scan's mission is to keep seniors healthy and independent.
The museum of sonoma county engages and inspires our diverse community with art and history exhibitions, collections, and public programs that are inclusive, educational, and relevant.
We foster reverence for life, relief of suffering, and compassion in loss for the terminally ill residents and their families in the communities we serve.
How this is measured
119 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 119 of the 189 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 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds College of the Desert Foundation ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds GENERAL PATTON MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds Angel View Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds Sansum Diabetes Research Institute ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds Cove Communities Senior Association DBA The Joslyn Center ↗
- Who funds SHELTER FROM THE STORM INC ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds NBCC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds Southwestern College Foundation ↗
- Who funds Desert Forum Inc ↗
- Who funds EUGENE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BAGS OF LOVE ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds MIZELL CENTER ↗
- Who funds PARENTING NOW ↗
- Who funds DALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE WELL IN THE DESERT INC ↗
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: Inland Empire Community Foundation · Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc · HN and Frances C Berger Foundation · Anderson Childrens Foundation · The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation · Houston Family Foundation · The Champions Volunteer Foundation · Regional Access Project Foundation · The Auen Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · The Galen Family Foundation · Impact Through Golf Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Arc of Lane County: 79% of income from government
- United Way of Lane County: 31% of income from government
- Relief Nursery Inc: 30% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Emerald Valley: 15% of income from government
- School Garden Project of Lane County: 9% of income from government
- Parenting Now: 1% of income from government
- Greenhill Humane Society Spca: 1% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine Clinic: 0% of income from government
- World Forestry Center: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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