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The Wj Barney Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Wj Barney Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$185k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Health$504kHuman Services$202kArts & Culture$121kEducation$61kInternational$55kRecreation & Sports$51kAnimals$49kPhilanthropy$44kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $119k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $66k
$5,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$532k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JACK JILL LAST STAGE CANCER FOUNDAT$20,000
MADDIE'S MARK FOUNDATION INC$15,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$11,200
JORDAN THOMAS FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
THE COMM FOUNDBUTLER FAMILY FOUNDAT$8,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA$6,800
CATIE HOCH FOUNDATION$6,600
NANCY B CLEMENTE CANCER FUND$6,000
PEGASUS THERAPEUTIC RIDING$6,000
CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE$5,000
VICTORIA ACRES EQUINE FACILITY$5,000
OKIZU PRESERVATION FUND$5,000
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 (FY17–25, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $5k → 6%COMPANIONS FOR HEROES: $3k → 14%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $5k → 6%COMPANIONS FOR HEROES: $3k → 14%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $4k → 6%VICTORIA ACRES EQUINE FACILITY: $5k → 14%COMPANIONS FOR HEROES: $3k → 14%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $4k → 6%VICTORIA ACRES EQUINE FACILITY: $5k → 14%COMPANIONS FOR HEROES: $3k → 14%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $3k → 6%VICTORIA ACRES EQUINE FACILITY: $3k → 14%COMPANIONS FOR HEROES: $3k → 14%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $3k → 6%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $3k → 6%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $3k → 6%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $2k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
ID
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
GA
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 47 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

47 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
13

Total granted

$1.1M
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+59%

Still filing today

57%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • JT
    JORDAN THOMAS FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +405%
  • TJ
    THE JACK AND JILL LATE STAGE CANCER FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $42k · revenue +29%
  • WA
    Wreaths Across America
    9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY GREATER HOUSTON AREA
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • TJ
    THE JOSEPH FUND INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -22%
  • WF
    WILLIAM F WIGAND MEMORIAL VFW POST
    one grant, 2024 · $4k
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
Leashes of Valor

Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…

Public Benefit
2
Helicopters for Heroes
Human Services
3
Warrior Dog Foundation

To serve the special operations community, families, and k-9 military dogs, as well as law enforcement and contract working dogs. when possible, these canines are placed in forever homes.

Youth Development
4
Riding for the Cure
Health
5
Captain Erick Foster Memorial Ride

Team foster raises money to partner service dogs with tri-state area veterans suffering from combat-related disabilities, including post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) and traumatic brain injury (tbi). see schedule o for continuation. we…

Public Benefit
6
Wings of Hope Therapeutic Riding Program Inc
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7
Last Ride Inc

Helping Active Duty, Veterans, and

Human Services
8
Freedom Mobility Foundation

Restoring mobility for active service members, veterans, first responders, and people with physical impairments so they can freely live their lives to the maximum extent that technology allows.

Human Services
9
Talisman Therapeutic Riding Inc

At talisman, we believe in the transformative, healing power of horses and our natural environment. we serve, empower all, and lead by example with compassion, dignity, and inclusivity.

Health
10
Hero Dogs Inc

Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.

Human Services
11
Victory Therapeutic Center Inc

To care for the physical, mental and emotional needs of children, adults, veterans and their families through the healing power of horses.

Health
12
Detective Wenjian Liu Foundation Inc

The foundation's mission embodies the character and values of detective wenjian liu, a new york police department detective who was shot and killed in the line of duty in a marked patrol car in december 2014. the foundation strives to…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fisher House Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Albany Firefighters Museum. 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

33 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. 33 of the 65 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
19/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $130,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $66,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOKIZU PRESERVATION FUND: $55,000 · OtherOKIZU PRESERVATION FUNDJACK JILL LAST STAGE CANCER FOUNDAT: $52,000 · OtherJACK JILL LAST STAGE CANCER FOUNDATRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $47,200 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEALL SAINTS CATHOLIC ACADEMY: $41,500 · OtherALL SAINTS CATHOLIC ACADEMYBUTLER FAMILY FOUNDATION: $39,500 · OtherBUTLER FAMILY FOUNDATION+36 more: $263,700 · Other+36 moreMADDIE'S MARK FOUNDATION INC: $82,000 · HealthMADDIE'S MARK FOUNDA…JORDAN THOMAS FOUNDATION INC: $66,000 · HealthJORDAN THOMAS FOUNDA…THE JACK AND JILL LATE STAGE CANCER FOUNDATION: $41,500 · HealthTHE JACK AND JILL LA…ATHELAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $15,000 · HealthATHELAS THERAPEUTIC …BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $13,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED …CATIE HOCH FOUNDATION: $25,600 · PhilanthropyLIVING RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 · PhilanthropyKAI FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JOSEPH FUND INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyMAYAS HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropyPEGASUS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $40,500 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC: $24,000 · Recreation & SportsCANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $32,000 · Human ServicesCompanions for Heroes: $14,500 · Human ServicesVICTORIA ACRES EQUINE FACILITY INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesRPM FOUNDATION: $14,500 · Arts & CultureWATKINS GLEN MOTOR RACING RESEARCH COUNCIL INC: $13,000 · Arts & CulturePATRIOT FLIGHT INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureALBANY FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSaratoga Automobile Museum: $3,300 · Arts & CulturePROJECT RECOVER INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureWreaths Across America: $40,360 · Public Benefit
Other$695,400Health$217,500Philanthropy$68,600Recreation & Sports$64,500Human Services$59,000Arts & Culture$54,800Public Benefit$40,360

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 budgetMADDIE'S MARK FOUNDATION INC: $82,000 over 9y, 41% of budgetJORDAN THOMAS FOUNDATION INC: $66,000 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetTHE JACK AND JILL LATE STAGE CANCER FOUNDATION: $41,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetPEGASUS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $40,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetWreaths Across America: $40,360 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $32,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCATIE HOCH FOUNDATION: $25,600 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC: $24,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetKAI FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetDOG IS MY COPILOT: $16,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetATHELAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $15,000 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRPM FOUNDATION: $14,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCompanions for Heroes: $14,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWOODLAND CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $14,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetWATKINS GLEN MOTOR RACING RESEARCH COUNCIL INC: $13,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVICTORIA ACRES EQUINE FACILITY INC: $12,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBANY FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM: $10,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetTurtles Fly Too Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE JOSEPH FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSaratoga Automobile Museum: $3,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND AT ALBANY INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAYAS HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLEAP INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTRIDE Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD: $1,000 over 1y, 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 MADDIE'S MARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JORDAN THOMAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JACK AND JILL LATE STAGE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PEGASUS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
  • Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
  • Who funds CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE ↗
  • Who funds CATIE HOCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LIVING RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KAI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DOG IS MY COPILOT ↗
  • Who funds ATHELAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds RPM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Companions for Heroes ↗
  • Who funds WOODLAND CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds WATKINS GLEN MOTOR RACING RESEARCH COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds VICTORIA ACRES EQUINE FACILITY INC ↗
  • Who funds PATRIOT FLIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ALBANY FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Turtles Fly Too 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.

Ge Aerospace Foundati…Price Chopper's Golub…Pioneer Bank Charitab…JM McDonald Foundatio…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Ayco Charitable F…Raymond James Charita…Renaissance Charitabl…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …Paypal Charitable Giv…
Ge Aerospace FoundationCT17.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 Wj Barney Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wj Barney Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 65 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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