How much does The Douglas S and Barbara J Barrett Family Foundation give?

The Douglas S and Barbara J Barrett Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $34,440 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

Who are The Douglas S and Barbara J Barrett Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Higher Edge Inc ($22k), Work Vessels for Vets Inc ($22k), College Visions ($19k).

Does The Douglas S and Barbara J Barrett Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Douglas S and Barbara J Barrett Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Douglas S and Barbara J Barrett Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chelsea Groton Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Dime Bank Foundation Inc.

The Douglas S and Barbara J Barrett Family Foundation

The Douglas S and Barbara J Barrett Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Douglas S and Barbara J Barrett Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$34k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$3k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$66kEducation$54kAnimals$32kFood & Nutrition$27kEmployment$22kHousing & Shelter$17kYouth Development$12kPhilanthropy$11kOther$0

02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$734k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Donor's Choose	$2,661
Liberation Programs Inc	$2,500
HERD	$2,500
Work Vessels for VETS	$2,500
The Chris Collins Foundation Inc	$2,500
New London Community Meal Center	$2,250
College Visions	$2,000
Direct Relief	$1,029
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
Off the Streets - Bridgeport	$1,000
MADD	$1,000
American Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation	$1,000
Experience Camps	$1,000
Higher Edge	$1,000
IASC Immigration Advocacy & Support Center	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$231k · 42 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$231k

$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%

+27%

Still filing today

62%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

WV
WORK VESSELS FOR VETS INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $22k · revenue +12%
COLLEGE VISIONS
8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +66%
TC
THE CHRIS COLLINS FOUNDATION INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $17k · revenue +646%

Funded once

HW
HORIZON WINGS INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +27%
SF
START FRESH INC
one grant, 2021 · $2k
UH
US Horse Welfare and Rescue Inc
one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +11%

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.

04Its field

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.

Connecticut Humane Society

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.

Animals

Connecticut Cancer Foundation Inc

To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.

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Connecticut Legal Rights Project Inc

The primary exempt purpose of ct legal rights project, inc. is to provide legal representation and advocacy for low income adults with psychiatric disabilities.

Unclassified

Brighton Marine Inc

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.

Health

Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery Inc

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.

Health

Chicago Canine Rescue Foundation

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…

Animals

Dove Inc

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.

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Community Health Services Inc

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.

Health

Dogs in Danger Rescue Inc D/B/a East Coast Adoption Agency

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…

Animals

Journey Home Inc

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…

Human Services

Bristol Hospital Inc

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…

Health

Danbury Animal Welfare Society

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…

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridges Healthcare Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

52/54

Grantees still filing

40/54

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$108,584Health$50,850Education$48,102Human Services$29,350Animals$14,900Philanthropy$10,500Environment$8,600

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.

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.

Chelsea Groton FoundationCT27.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Douglas S and Barbara J Barrett Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Douglas S and Barbara J Barrett Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

10get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

3rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home