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The Robert and Kia Barker Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$9k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$43kHuman Services$14kYouth Development$9kCrime & Legal$8kHousing & Shelter$5kFood & Nutrition$3kHealth$2kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$668
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOMELESS ANGELS: $2k → 9%HERO'S BRIDGE: $500 → 6%SHE BELIEVES IN ME: $500 → 6%SECOND STORY: $500 → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$59k · 8 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
26

Total granted

$59k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+24%

Still filing today

50%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • NE
    NAVY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO
    5× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue -18%
  • VC
    VIRGINIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue -44%
  • TS
    THE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $8k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • MH
    MOBILE HOPE ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +73%
  • CB
    CHILD BENEFIT FUND INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3k
  • HA
    HOMELESS ANGELS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2k · revenue -3%
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.

1
Abilities Network Inc

Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.

Health
2
The District of Columbia Children's Advocacy Center

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…

Crime & Legal
3
Family and Children's Services of Centra

To transform the lives of children and adults by providing opportunities to build self-confidence, resilience and hope.

Human Services
4
The Children's Home Inc

Provides residential and community services to promote long-term well-being and success for young people and families who experience disruption in their lives.

Human Services
5
The Matthews House

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,…

Human Services
6
Martha's Table Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
7
Childsavers- Memorial Child Guidance Clinic

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.

—
8
Family Lifeline

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,…

Human Services
9
Women Against Abuse Inc

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…

Human Services
10
Children's National

Children's national coordinates the overall policy and activities of the affiliated organizations. see schedule o.

Health
11
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

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…

—
12
The Young Women's Project

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Abused and Homeless Children's Refuge Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
18/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NAVY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO: $30,663 · EducationNAVY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTOTHE RYAN BARTEL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · EducationTHE RYAN BARTEL FOUNDATION INCVIRGINIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS: $9,550 · OtherVIRGINIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERSEDDIE HURLEY PROJECT INC: $7,350 · OtherEDDIE HURLEY PROJECT INCCHILD BENEFIT FUND INC: $3,000 · OtherCHILD BENEFIT FUND INCGREATER LANSING AREA FOOD BANK: $2,000 · OtherGREATER LANSING AREA FOOD BANKADVENT HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $2,000 · OtherADVENT HOUSE MINISTRIES INCEVE: $2,000 · OtherEVE+15 more: $7,478 · Other+15 moreTHE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Human ServicesTHE SAFE CHILD…HOMELESS ANGELS: $2,076 · Human ServicesHOMELESS ANGEL…ABUSED AND HOMELESS CHILDREN'S REFUGE INC: $500 · Human ServicesSIMPLE CHANGES INC: $500 · Human ServicesSHE BELIEVES IN ME: $500 · Human ServicesHERO'S BRIDGE: $500 · Human ServicesMOBILE HOPE ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentWILDERNESS LEADERSHIP & LEARNING INC: $1,700 · Recreation & SportsCHANTILLY YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $500 · Recreation & SportsGRACING SPACES: $2,000 · ReligionBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $250 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $250 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100 · Health
Education$32,663Other$33,378Human Services$11,576Youth Development$5,000Recreation & Sports$2,200Religion$2,000Health$1,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNAVY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO: $30,663 over 5y, 16% of budgetVIRGINIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS: $9,550 over 5y, 10% of budgetTHE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMOBILE HOPE ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHOMELESS ANGELS: $2,076 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetADVENT HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $2,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RYAN BARTEL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWILDERNESS LEADERSHIP & LEARNING INC: $1,700 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWomen Giving Back Inc: $1,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetABUSED AND HOMELESS CHILDREN'S REFUGE INC: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAMB CENTER: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIMPLE CHANGES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHANTILLY YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHE BELIEVES IN ME: $500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBETTERALIFE INC: $500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHERO'S BRIDGE: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNOURISH NOW FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100 over 5y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ADVENT HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RYAN BARTEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GRACING SPACES ↗
  • Who funds WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP & LEARNING INC ↗
  • Who funds Women Giving Back Inc ↗
  • Who funds ABUSED AND HOMELESS CHILDREN'S REFUGE INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LAMB CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SIMPLE CHANGES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHANTILLY YOUTH ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SHE BELIEVES IN ME ↗
  • Who funds BETTERALIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds HERO'S BRIDGE ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Philip L Graham Fund …Dominion Energy Chari…Greater Washington Co…The Kmz FoundationThe Closet of the Gre…Sidgmore Family Found…Van Metre Companies F…Community Foundation …Clark-Winchcole Found…United Way of the Nat…Verizon Foundation
The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia IncVA19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Robert and Kia Barker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert and Kia Barker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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