Barney & Barney Foundation

Analysis

Barney & Barney Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in San Diego, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Barney & Barney Foundation reported income of $520k and spending of $490k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $435k to $520k (+19%), an average of +4.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 184%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Barney & Barney Foundation sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Seattle Seahawks Charitable Foundation ($520k), Thundercloud Subs Turkey Trot ($520k) and Center for Entrepreneurial Jewish Philanthropy ($520k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.0m against liabilities of $16k, net assets of $2.0m.