· Private foundation
The Robert and Kia Barker Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAVY ELEMENTARY PTO | $3,100 |
| SAFESPOT CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CTR OF FAIRFAX | $2,500 |
| OAKTON HIGH SCHOOL PTSA | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $668 |
| HERO'S BRIDGE | $500 |
| SIMPLE CHANGES | $500 |
| EDDIE HURLEY PROJECT INC | $250 |
| FRANKLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL | $100 |
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 (FY22–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- NENAVY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO5× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue -18%
- VCVIRGINIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS5× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue -44%
- TSTHE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $8k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- MHMOBILE HOPE ASSOCIATIONgraduated5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +73%
- CBCHILD BENEFIT FUND INC5× · 2020–2024 · $3k
- HAHOMELESS ANGELS3× · 2022–2024 · $2k · revenue -3%
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.
Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.
Safe shores provides survivor-centered intervention, hope and healing for children and families affected by abuse, trauma and violence in the district of columbia, and works to prevent and end child abuse and neglect through promising…
To transform the lives of children and adults by providing opportunities to build self-confidence, resilience and hope.
Provides residential and community services to promote long-term well-being and success for young people and families who experience disruption in their lives.
Vision: a community that is aware, belongs, and is self-sufficient. mission: empowering youth and families through connection, self efficacy, and independence. values: relationship-centered, assume the best of people, own your role,…
Martha's table works to support stronger children, stronger families, and stronger communities by increasing access to quality education programs, healthy food, and family supports.
The organization guides the community's children through life's critical moments with trauma-informed mental health and child development services. it believes that all children can be safe, happy, healthy and ready to learn.
Family lifeline partners with families and individuals, delivering intensive home and community-based services to achieve an equitable, resilient community where families and individuals are connected, safe, and living a healthy,…
The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…
Children's national coordinates the overall policy and activities of the affiliated organizations. see schedule o.
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
Ywp builds the leadership and power of young people so that they can transform dc institutions to expand rights and opportunities for dc youth. ywp programs engage youth on three levels - as peer educators, advocates, and employees - and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Abused and Homeless Children's Refuge Inc and the most unlike its peers is Virginia Congress of Parents and Teachers. 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 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 37 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 NAVY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOBILE HOPE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS ANGELS ↗
- Who funds THE RYAN BARTEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADVENT HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GRACING SPACES ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP & LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds Women Giving Back Inc ↗
- Who funds SHE BELIEVES IN ME ↗
- Who funds CHANTILLY YOUTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE LAMB CENTER ↗
- Who funds SIMPLE CHANGES INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds ABUSED AND HOMELESS CHILDREN'S REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds HERO'S BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds BETTERALIFE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISH NOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association 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: The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Kmz Foundation · The Closet of the Greater Herndon Area Inc · Sidgmore Family Foundation · Van Metre Companies Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Verizon 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 Robert and Kia Barker 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.