Missouri · Nonprofit
BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC
BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC (Missouri) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,956,231 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($3,235,918). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.9M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Barnabas Foundation Inc does
Mission
Camp barnabas is a ministry in southwest missouri dedicated to providing a unique christian summer camp experience for individuals with special needs, their siblings, and youth from across the us. See schedule o for addtional information.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Camp barnabas is located in purdy, mo, where we meet the needs of people with disabilities and their siblings so they can have an incredible camp experience and learn more about christ. To make camp possible, we team up with groups and individuals all across the nation to match up each person one-on-one with our campers. Camp is more than an experience. Lives are changed for everyone involved. During the 2025 camp season, 1,452 campers and 2,126 missionaries participated in camp.
$4,140,634 spentof which $500 as grants$2,892,760 earned by the program77% of program spendingHosted barnabas prep, a faith-based collegiate program based in branson, mo, designed specifically for students with special needs. It is an independent living-learning experience that helps young adults recognize their strengths and potential, and challenges them to grow into their best selves. Students come in not realizing what's possible and leave with new skills, confidence, and an understanding of their full potential.
$1,233,961 spent$1,009,134 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,374,595.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $8.5M to $15M (+79%).
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: 2021 5% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Bernadette Losh
CEO
Board chair
Jacob Spain
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $231k → $3.7M.
18 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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
BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
64% 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 BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 42% · 2019 44% · 2020 27% · 2021 61% · 2022 28% · 2023 37% — 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
48% of BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
59% of BARNABAS FOUNDATION 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 $4.9M that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 15 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Against its field
BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,325 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,325 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BARNABAS FOUNDATION 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC?
- BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC (Missouri) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,956,231 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($3,235,918). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $11,956,231 in grants to BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,235,918 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 58 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing