· Private foundation
The Douglas S and Barbara J Barrett Family Foundation
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Donor's Choose | $2,661 |
| Liberation Programs Inc | $2,500 |
| The Chris Collins Foundation Inc | $2,500 |
| HERD | $2,500 |
| Work Vessels for VETS | $2,500 |
| New London Community Meal Center | $2,250 |
| College Visions | $2,000 |
| Direct Relief | $1,029 |
| Off the Streets - Bridgeport | $1,000 |
| Foundation for Life | $1,000 |
| Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Inc | $1,000 |
| IASC Immigration Advocacy & Support Center | $1,000 |
| Experience Camps | $1,000 |
| Homeless Hospitality Center | $1,000 |
| Covenant Shelter of New London Inc | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% 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.
42 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 9 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- WVWORK VESSELS FOR VETS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $22k · revenue +12%
COLLEGE VISIONS8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +66%- TCTHE CHRIS COLLINS FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $17k · revenue +646%
Funded once
- SFSTART FRESH INCone grant, 2021 · $2k
- HWHORIZON WINGS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +27%
- UHUS Horse Welfare and Rescue Incone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +11%
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 connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.
The primary exempt purpose of ct legal rights project, inc. is to provide legal representation and advocacy for low income adults with psychiatric disabilities.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
The connecticut community for addiction recovery (ccar) envisions a world where the power, hope and healing of recovery from alcohol and other addictions is thoroughly understood and embraced.
Chicago canine rescue foundation finds permanent homes for homeless dogs in our community with a specific emphasis on assisting the most vulnerable animals, who without our help, would have no other options. while in our care, they are…
Mission statement: hope, healing, safety, social change. working together to end domestic and partner violence. vision statement: a community unified in peace, justice, and equity, for the safety and well-being of every individual.
To provide medical services for the residents of the greater hartford connecticut area. to provide quality health care services to low and moderate income individuals in the greater hartford connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.
A small rescue group operating in the new york area that only rescues dogs from high kill shelters and southern rescues. this means a majority of dogs admitted there are euthanized due to lack of space. we very rarely take in owner…
Journey home's mission is to ensure a home for all. we believe the most powerful way to do this is collectively - by working together with service providers, elected officials, businesses, and local communities to end homelessness in the…
Bristol hospital and health care group is committed to enhancing the health and well-being of our community. we will provide safe, quality care and services to our patients through our continuum of services and health promotion. we will…
Danbury animal welfare society , inc.(daws) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of animals in our community and beyond. we promote responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals, and work toward…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridges Healthcare Inc and the most unlike its peers is Halfway Home Rescue 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 25 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 80 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 HIGHER EDGE INC ↗
- Who funds WORK VESSELS FOR VETS INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE VISIONS ↗
- Who funds THE CHRIS COLLINS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AKINDALE REHABILITATION & LAND CONSERVATION FUND ↗
- Who funds BARNUM FOUNDATION FOR LIFE INC FKA FOUNDATION FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT HORSE POWER ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Foundation for Dental Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HERREN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION ↗
- Who funds SEA LEGS INC ↗
- Who funds Achilles International Inc ↗
- Who funds LIBERATION PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW LONDON COMMUNITY MEAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HORIZON WINGS INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE CAMPS ↗
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: Chelsea Groton Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Citizens Charitable 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 Douglas S and Barbara J Barrett Family 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.
- Community Health Resources Inc — 79% of income from government
- Bridges Healthcare Inc — 67% of income from government
- The Covenant Shelter of New London Inc — 61% of income from government
- The New London Community Meal Center Inc — 44% of income from government
- Liberation Programs Inc — 24% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Higher Edge Inc — 4% of income from government
- Horizon Wings Inc — 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.