· Private foundation
TW Barker Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $88k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $238k
- $250k+1 grant · $495k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Christian Community Center LLC | $495,000 |
| Christian Community Center LLC | $238,394 |
| Peter Creek Presbyterian Church | $42,000 |
| Helphing Hands of Phelps | $24,000 |
| Lingap Children's Foundation | $12,000 |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $10,000 |
| Cedar Inc | $5,000 |
| Shepherd Memorial Presbyterian Church | $5,000 |
| Shriners Children's Lexington | $2,500 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital | $2,500 |
| Coats for Kids | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 24%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +145% since the first grant, against -57% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PIKEVILLE2× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +41%
- TLTHE LINGAP CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $226k · revenue +271%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- PCPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF THE COVENANTone grant, 2021 · $151k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $30k
- CCChrist Central Training School Acadone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
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.
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
Desales is a catholic, salesian university that inspires transformative learning through the liberal arts and professional studies by energizing students to be who they are and be that well.
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
See schedule o. founded in 1902, university of northwestern - st. paul is a nondenominational christian university that integrates the educational philosophy of "faith, learning and living" through two focuses: higher education and media.…
In partnership with the church, the purpose of william jessup university is to educate transformational leaders for the glory of god.
Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.
To positively affect people's lives by nurturing connections to the sacred through experiential education and spiritual care.
Organization's mission: peirce college empowers adult learners to improve their lives by achieving career goals through academic offerings aligned with evolving workforce needs.
Mission of challenge, nurture, community: carson-newman college offers a christian, liberal arts education in an environment that encourages open intellectual inquiry and deeper spiritual maturity. students receive a personalized education…
Provide undergraduate and graduate education in a variety of programs to approximately 600 undergraduate and 100 graduate students.
Gcu serves the global church by educating mission leaders to fulfill the great commission of jesus christ. gcu accomplishes this mission through a comprehensive program of biblical and general education, christ-centered service and…
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 52 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PIKEVILLE ↗
- Who funds THE LINGAP CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CEDAR INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BACONE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SEVIER COUNTY ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization TW Barker Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from TW Barker Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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