Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BARR FOUNDATION
BARR FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,347,936 to it, the largest being Fund for Parks and Recreation - Boston ($1,000,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $192M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $1.9B
What Barr Foundation does
Programs
To provide systems-level strategic support and coaching for seven grantee communities, while also providing training for the meeting the moment cohort.
$2,838,770 spentTo continue leading school observation visits for barr grantees and offering customized coaching to deepen capacity building supports for school leaders.
$1,620,740 spentTo provide continued management of learning communities for catalyze new models grantees.
$1,395,274 spentTo continue work on the student outcomes tracking project across schools in the catalyze new models portfolio.
$600,000 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.5B to $1.8B (+19%).
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.
Board chair
Barbara W Hostetter
Chair and trustee
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1.0M → $14k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 BARR FOUNDATION’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 FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 BARR FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
98% of BARR FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
BARR FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 153 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 153 philanthropy nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Organizations like BARR FOUNDATION
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BARR 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BARR FOUNDATION?
- BARR FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,347,936 to it, the largest being Fund for Parks and Recreation - Boston ($1,000,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BARR FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,347,936 in grants to BARR FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of BARR FOUNDATION?
- Fund for Parks and Recreation - Boston is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BARR FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 4 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