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The Nancy E Barton Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$727k
Granted FY2025still arriving
64
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Arts & Culture$1.1MInternational$956kEducation$697kYouth Development$421kHealth$297kHuman Services$241kCivil Rights$112kHousing & Shelter$89kOther$0
02FY2025 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k46 grants · $188k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $154k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $385k
$4,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICARES$55,000
BUILDON$55,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN$55,000
HARMONY PROJECT$55,000
TUFTS UNIVERSITY$55,000
CHILD GUIDANCE CTR OF SOUTHERN CT$55,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$55,000
THE COLBURN SCHOOL$29,000
ALL ROADS THEATRE COMPANY$25,000
HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION$15,000
ACLU AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION$15,000
VS THEATRE COMPANY$10,000
CHILDREN'S RANCH FOUNDATION$10,000
PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM$10,000
LAKE CHAPALA PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $259k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC: $5k → 10%REMARKABLE MARRIAGE AND FAMILY: $5k → 9%JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC: $4k → 10%REMARKABLE MARRIAGE & FAMILY INSTITUTE: $4k → 9%JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC: $4k → 10%REMARKABLE MARRIAGE AND FAMILY: $4k → 9%JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC: $4k → 10%REMARKABLE MARRIAGE AND FAMILY: $3k → 9%JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC: $3k → 10%REMARKABLE MARRIAGE AND FAMILY: $3k → 9%JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC: $3k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $4k → 14%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $5k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $4k → 14%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $4k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $4k → 14%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $4k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $4k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $3k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 17%CHILDREN'S ROOM - CENTER FOR GRIEVING: $4k → 8%THE CHILDRENS ROOM: $4k → 8%COVENANT HOUSE: $4k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $4k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $4k → 17%1736 FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $5k → 14%1736 FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $4k → 14%1736 FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $4k → 14%1736 FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $4k → 14%JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $4k → 17%JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $4k → 17%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LA: $5k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES: $4k → 14%YWCA GREENWICH: $14k → 9%YWCA GREENWICH: $5k → 9%YWCA GREENWICH: $4k → 9%YWCA GREENWICH: $4k → 9%CHILDREN'S RANCH FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S RANCH FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S RANCH FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S RANCH FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S RANCH FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%CHILDREN'S RANCH FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%LOS ANGELES YOUTH NETWORK: $7k → 14%LOS ANGELES YOUTH NETWORK: $7k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
NY
MA
SD
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.0M · 77 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

77 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
4

Total granted

$4.0M
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+12%

Still filing today

71%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationInternationalHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • Trustees of Tufts College
    6× · 2020–2025 · $320k · revenue +39%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $320k · revenue +34%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $315k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • LA
    LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEVELOPMENTAL
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • COMMUNITY INITIATIVES
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +12%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

Deeply rooted in our local beverly hills community and influenced by cultural change, the wallis annenberg center for the performing arts, a public-private partnership with the city of beverly hills, strives to be a site for the…

Arts & Culture
2
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
3
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society Inc

The orchestra pursues its mission, "to enrich and connect our community through intimate and transformative musical experiences which exemplify and foster artistic excellence, education and innovation," through the blend of traditional…

Arts & Culture
4
Arts for La

Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.

Arts & Culture
5
Lookingglass Theatre Company

Lookingglass theatre company is a national leader in the creation and presentation of innovative, cutting-edge theatrical work. lookingglass interweaves movement, circus arts and narrative in original and captivating ways. guided by an…

Arts & Culture
6
Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles

We believe theatre creates an extraordinary connection between artists and audiences that only starts on the stage. theatre creates the energy that feeds a city, a culture, and a society. theatre reflects the community it serves. our…

Arts & Culture
7
Latino Theater Company

The latino theater company operates the los angeles theatre center, whose mission is to provide a world class arts center for those pursuing artistic excellence; a laboratory where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed; a…

Arts & Culture
8
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
9
A Noise Within

A Noise Within produces classic theatre as an essential means to enrich our community by embracing universal human experiences, expanding personal awareness and challenging individual perspectives.

Arts & Culture
10
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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11
Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture
12
Long Beach Community Players Inc

To celebrate the human experience while encouraging the participation of artist and audience in theatre productions.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Create Now Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ensemble Shakespeare Theater. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Affordable Housing Developm…Local History MuseumsDance Arts OrganizationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Policy Research and AdvocacyCancer Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Development ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesCommunity Arts Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%37%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%36%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/66
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,499

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.

04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 91 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/62
Grantees still filing
45/62
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $320,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYCHILD GUIDANCE CTR OF SOUTHER CT — $260,000 · OtherCHILD GUIDANCE CTR OF SOUTHER CTAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION — $75,000 · OtherCheshire Moon Incorporated — $55,000 · OtherCHILD GUIDANCE CENTER OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC — $55,000 · OtherVS THEATRE COMPANY — $55,000 · Other+40 more — $680,500 · Other+40 moreSave The Children Federation Inc — $315,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federati…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $315,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INCBUILDON INC — $295,000 · InternationalBUILDON INC+2 more — $30,500 · InternationalTrustees of Tufts College — $320,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts C…Harmony Project — $290,000 · EducationHarmony ProjectUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $35,000 · Education+3 more — $66,000 · Education+3 moreTHE COLBURN SCHOOL — $74,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COLBURN SC…All Roads Theatre Company — $68,000 · Arts & CultureAll Roads Thea…Los Angeles Youth Orchestra — $55,000 · Arts & CultureLos Angeles Yo…SKYLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY — $45,000 · Arts & CultureSKYLIGHT THEAT…ENSEMBLE SHAKESPEARE THEATER — $45,000 · Arts & CultureENSEMBLE SHAKE…JABBERWOCKY THEATRE COMPANY — $45,000 · Arts & CultureJABBERWOCKY TH…GIRLS IN FOCUS — $25,000 · Arts & CultureZEIDERS AMERICAN DREAM THEATER — $25,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $25,000 · Arts & CultureVENICE ARTS — $22,000 · Arts & Culture24th Street Theatre Company — $22,000 · Arts & CultureGREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $22,000 · Arts & CultureINNER-CITY ARTS — $22,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $37,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreTHE CHILDRENS RANCH FOUNDATION — $55,000 · Human ServicesYWCA GREENWICH CONNECTICUT INC — $32,000 · Human ServicesJEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC — $22,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN — $22,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $22,000 · Human Services1736 FAMILY CRISIS CENTER — $22,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE — $22,000 · Human ServicesREMARKABLE MARRIAGE AND FAMILY INSTITUTE — $18,500 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES — $15,000 · Human ServicesLos Angeles Youth Network — $14,000 · Human Services+2 more — $14,500 · Human ServicesHEARTGIFT FOUNDATION — $90,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR LIVING BEAUTY DBA LIVING BEAUTY CANCER FOUNDATION — $26,000 · HealthTWLOHA INC — $22,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $22,000 · HealthFIRST DESCENTS — $22,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,500,500International$955,500Education$711,000Arts & Culture$532,000Human Services$259,000Health$160,000Recreation & Sports$22,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $320,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $320,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $315,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $315,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDON INC — $295,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHarmony Project — $290,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetHEARTGIFT FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE COLBURN SCHOOL — $74,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAll Roads Theatre Company — $68,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetCheshire Moon Incorporated — $55,000 over 4y, 64% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS RANCH FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetCHILD GUIDANCE CENTER OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC — $55,000 over 1y, 69% of budgetLos Angeles Youth Orchestra — $55,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetSKYLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY — $45,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetENSEMBLE SHAKESPEARE THEATER — $45,000 over 5y, 75% of budgetJABBERWOCKY THEATRE COMPANY — $45,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetFOUNTAIN THEATRE — $35,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA GREENWICH CONNECTICUT INC — $32,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR LIVING BEAUTY DBA LIVING BEAUTY CANCER FOUNDATION — $26,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetGIRLS IN FOCUS — $25,000 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetZEIDERS AMERICAN DREAM THEATER — $25,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $25,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC — $22,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVENICE ARTS — $22,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTWLOHA INC — $22,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLAUREL HOUSE INC — $22,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES MUSIC AND ART SCHOOL — $22,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN — $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYBODY DANCE LA — $22,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLEGAL MOMENTUM — $22,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCREATE NOW INC — $22,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budget826LA — $22,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budget24th Street Theatre Company — $22,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION — $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $22,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DETROIT CREATIVITY PROJECT — $22,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budget1736 FAMILY CRISIS CENTER — $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMETROWEST LEGAL SERVICES INC — $22,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST DESCENTS — $22,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES WITH HOPE — $22,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG STORYTELLERS — $22,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS — $22,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetREMARKABLE MARRIAGE AND FAMILY INSTITUTE — $18,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION — $18,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budget
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 Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BUILDON INC ↗
  • Who funds Harmony Project ↗
  • Who funds HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE COLBURN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds All Roads Theatre Company ↗
  • Who funds Cheshire Moon Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDRENS RANCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds Los Angeles Youth Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds SKYLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds ENSEMBLE SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
  • Who funds JABBERWOCKY THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds FOUNTAIN THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds YWCA GREENWICH CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR LIVING BEAUTY DBA LIVING BEAUTY CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS IN FOCUS ↗
  • Who funds ZEIDERS AMERICAN DREAM THEATER ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds VENICE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds TWLOHA INC ↗
  • Who funds LAUREL HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES MUSIC AND ART SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds EVERYBODY DANCE LA ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL MOMENTUM ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗

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.

The Ahmanson Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…California Community …The Annenberg Foundat…The Rose Hills Founda…Weingart FoundationSnap FoundationThe Near and Far Asso…The Deutsch FoundationPerenchio FoundationJewish Community Foun…The Green Foundation
The Ahmanson FoundationCA30.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Snap Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Deutsch Foundation · Perenchio Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Green 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 Nancy E Barton 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Laurel House Inc — 68% of income from government
  • Jewish Family Services of Greenwich — 41% of income from government
  • Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Homes With Hope — 28% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Metrowest Legal Services Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Guerilla Opera Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Nancy E Barton Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Nancy E Barton Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 91 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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