Maryland · Nonprofit
The Barker Adoption Foundation
The Barker Adoption Foundation (Maryland) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,071,182 to it, the largest being The Friends of Barker Inc ($5,161,903). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $9.1M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What The Barker Adoption Foundation does
Mission
The Barker Adoption Foundation provides life-long services for all in the adoption constellation and advocates for ethical, respectful, and child-centered adoption practices.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Mental Health Counseling & Post-Adoption Services: Barker provides comprehensive post-adoption support to all members of the adoption triad-adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive families-across their lifespan. Services include search and reunion assistance, parent coaching, support groups, educational workshops, an annual conference, consultation services, homeland heritage tours, and individual and family mental health counseling. Barker's post-adoption & mental health counseling services are available to all touched by adoption regardless of whether their adoption experience was with Barker or another agency.
$985,888 spent$227,482 earned by the program34% of program spendingDomestic Program: Barker offers free, confidential, and unbiased counseling to individuals and couples who wish to explore making an adoption plan for their child, whether during pregnancy or while already parenting. Services are offered in both English and Spanish, in person or virtually, and include coordinating proper medical care, providing emotional support, resource referrals, and ongoing supportive services regardless of the decision made. Barker serves individuals and couples who wish to adopt infants domestically. Barker provides education, home studies, matching, placement, and post-placement supervision. Services are provided in a transparent and ethical manner, ensuring a child-centered approach.Barker has a cradle care program where its trained foster families provide nurturing temporary care for the baby while the birth parents take the time necessary to decide whether to parent or to place the child for adoption.
$675,280 spent$422,344 earned by the program24% of program spendingInternational Adoption Program: The Barker Adoption Foundation's International Adoption Program provides education, counseling, and comprehensive adoption services to families seeking to adopt children from other countries that allow US families to adopt internationally. While international adoption has decreased globally, Barker continues to support families who pursue international placements through accredited partners and provides ongoing training and post-placement supervision. The program also assists families with intercountry adoption finalizations and immigration processes. Barker ensures all international placements comply with The Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, U.S. and foreign law, and ethical best practices.
$612,402 spent$183,747 earned by the program21% of program spendingProject Wait No Longer ("PWNL"): Project Wait No Longer is Barker's older child adoption program focused on placing children from U.S. foster care-typically older children, sibling groups, and children with complex needs-with permanent, loving families. PWNL provides prospective adoptive parents with intensive training, home study assessments, matching and placement services, and ongoing support. The program works closely with public child welfare agencies and seeks to reduce the number of children waiting for adoption by recruiting and preparing families who are committed to meeting their needs.
$592,697 spent$243,884 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,866,267.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.1M to $3.5M (+66%).
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 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of The Barker Adoption Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Susan Hollar
Executive Director
Board chair
Eugenia Collis
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $804k → $1.2M.
13 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 The Barker Adoption Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
The Barker Adoption Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
69% 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 The Barker Adoption Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 53% · 2019 70% · 2020 56% · 2021 53% · 2022 58% · 2023 67% — growing more concentrated.
“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
55% of The Barker Adoption Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
79% of The Barker Adoption Foundation's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
The Barker Adoption Foundation is better cushioned than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding The Barker Adoption Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11k on record.
- GRANT IN AID$11k
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 The Barker Adoption 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Friends of Barker Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Barker Adoption 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 The Barker Adoption Foundation?
- The Barker Adoption Foundation (Maryland) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,071,182 to it, the largest being The Friends of Barker Inc ($5,161,903). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Barker Adoption Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $9,071,182 in grants to The Barker Adoption Foundation, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Barker Adoption Foundation?
- The Friends of Barker Inc is the largest funder on record, with $5,161,903 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Barker Adoption Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 46 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