Minnesota · Nonprofit
BARR CENTER
BARR CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,253,302 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($13,046,990). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $7.7M
What Barr Center does
Mission
Our mission is to support schools in providing a high-quality education system where involved adults know each and every student, recognize their strengths, and help them succeed.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Barr (building assets, reducing risks) is a strength-based educational model that provides schools with a comprehensive approach to meeting the academic and non-academic needs of all students through the power of data and relationships - both inside and outside the classroom. Designed by an educator , the barr model is rooted in the belief that growth is possible and within reach for every school, with the same students and the same teachers. Barr builds three different types of relationships in schools; teacher-to-teacher, teacher-to-student, and student-to-student. In barr schools, the adults learn how to use these relationships in combination with real-time academic data to engage students and improve student academic and behavioral outcomes.
$13,674,933 spent$10,707,919 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $13,674,933.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $8.1M to $15M (+83%).
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 3% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of BARR CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Angela Jerabek
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $2.4M → $2.8M.
From the IRS filings of BARR CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
BARR CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 81% · 2022 67% · 2023 46% — 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
75% of BARR CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
BARR CENTER draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
BARR CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like BARR CENTER
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 Minnesota
Nationally
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
52%
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 BARR CENTER: 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 BARR CENTER?
- BARR CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,253,302 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($13,046,990). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BARR CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $18,253,302 in grants to BARR CENTER, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BARR CENTER?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $13,046,990 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BARR CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 9 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