Illinois · Nonprofit
Barnabas Foundation
Barnabas Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,911,579 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($6,827,144). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. Barnabas Foundation administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
Barnabas Foundation administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programBarnabas Foundation runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$58M
Recipients
707
Contributions on record
$41M
Donors on record
35
Payments out are 1.40x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Grand Rapids Community Foundationshared funders
- Bowanabee Foundationportfolio match
- Ciosportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $1.8M → $1.2M.
14 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $15M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest John Mark Co). These are real filings, and they are not money Barnabas Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Barnabas Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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.
Where its funders are
54% of Barnabas Foundation'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 $12M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 33 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Grand Rapids Community Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
- Bowanabee Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ciosportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- George E Shortle and Catherine H Shortle Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Duffy Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hermanson Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vertuassets Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Soli Deo Gloriaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Boss Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- W Moreland & Ruth U Ernst Charportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- George E Seay III Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Merrick Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 7 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Huize Baak Lender LLC · disregarded
- John Mark Co · exempt
- Marah Co · exempt
- Schaaf Truck and Tractor Museum · exempt
- Entrepreneurial Stewardship Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Barnabas Foundation: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Barnabas Foundation?
- Barnabas Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,911,579 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($6,827,144). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. Barnabas Foundation administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does Barnabas Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $25,911,579 in grants to Barnabas Foundation, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Barnabas Foundation?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,827,144 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Barnabas Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 33funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing