Connecticut · Nonprofit
BARBARAS HOUSE INC
BARBARAS HOUSE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,823,792 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($870,050). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $786k
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $214k
What Barbaras House Inc does
Mission
For over 70 years, Barbaras House Inc has offered, free of charge, homework clubs, tutoring, after school and summer enrichment programs, therapeutic counseling, supporting social groups and american citizenship classes
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Barabaras House is a social service agency dedicated to building skills that empower our clients to overcome educational, social, and economic barriers so they can reach their full potential. BH has educational programs for elementary, middle and high school students. These include tutoring, cultural enrichment, post-secondary planning, drivers education, and social/emotional support. BH also runs a summer program which serves 30 elementary students for 7 weeks, five days a week. BH also runs a citizenship and ESL program for adults. Our senior citizen program involves individual counseling, social activities, shopping, crafts, which take place at seniors living in Greenwich Communities housing. Our Family Self-Sufficiency Program (FSS) is a savings incentive program that consists of case management services for low-income families. All services are provided free of charge. We also serve young and older adults with special needs, providing social events. BH also provides food for our clients year round, but especially during the holiday season.
$566,651 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $566,651.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $84k to $551k (+556%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 8% · 2018 10% · 2019 8% · 2020 25% · 2021 19% · 2022 11% · 2023 8% · 2024 18% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 9 funders, grant income fell $316k → $116k.
8 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BARBARAS HOUSE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BARBARAS HOUSE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BARBARAS HOUSE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 42% · 2019 63% · 2020 53% · 2021 69% · 2022 27% · 2023 39% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
29% of BARBARAS HOUSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
65% of BARBARAS HOUSE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $644k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding BARBARAS HOUSE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $321k on record.
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$321k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BARBARAS HOUSE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BARBARAS HOUSE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BARBARAS HOUSE INC?
- BARBARAS HOUSE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,823,792 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($870,050). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BARBARAS HOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,823,792 in grants to BARBARAS HOUSE INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BARBARAS HOUSE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $870,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BARBARAS HOUSE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 32 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing