Barr Foundation donations made to City of Boston

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Basic donor information

ItemValue
Country United States
Facebook username BarrFdn
Websitehttps://www.barrfoundation.org/
Donations URLhttps://www.barrfoundation.org/grantmaking/grants
Twitter usernameBarrFdn
Page on philosophy informing donationshttps://www.barrfoundation.org/how-we-work
Data entry method on Donations List WebsiteSQL insertion commands generated by script https://github.com/riceissa/barr-foundation

Full donor page for donor Barr Foundation

Basic donee information

We do not have any donee information for the donee City of Boston in our system.

Full donee page for donee City of Boston

Donor–donee relationship

Item Value

Donor–donee donation statistics

Cause areaCountMedianMeanMinimum10th percentile 20th percentile 30th percentile 40th percentile 50th percentile 60th percentile 70th percentile 80th percentile 90th percentile Maximum
Overall 11 170,000 251,136 25,000 65,000 100,000 150,000 170,000 170,000 200,000 260,000 262,500 525,000 835,000
FIXME 11 170,000 251,136 25,000 65,000 100,000 150,000 170,000 170,000 200,000 260,000 262,500 525,000 835,000

Donation amounts by cause area and year

If you hover over a cell for a given cause area and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.

Note: Cause area classification used here may not match that used by donor for all cases.

Cause area Number of donations Total 2018 2017 2016 2014 2013
FIXME (filter this donor) 11 2,762,500.00 25,000.00 100,000.00 1,425,000.00 582,500.00 630,000.00
Total 11 2,762,500.00 25,000.00 100,000.00 1,425,000.00 582,500.00 630,000.00

Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)

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Graph of spending by cause area and year (cumulative)

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Full list of documents in reverse chronological order (0 documents)

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Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (11 donations)

Graph of all donations (with known year of donation), showing the timeframe of donations

Graph of donations and their timeframes
Amount (current USD)Amount rank (out of 11)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
25,000.00112018-04-27FIXMEhttps://www.barrfoundation.org/grantmaking/grants/-- To provide additional support for scope expansion related to district resilience in South Boston/Fort Point.
100,000.0092017-09-12FIXMEhttps://www.barrfoundation.org/grantmaking/grants/-- To support participation in the Barr Fellowship Class of 2017.
835,000.0012016-12-07FIXMEhttps://www.barrfoundation.org/grantmaking/grants/-- To support community-level resilience projects as part of Climate Ready Boston Phase II.
65,000.00102016-08-31FIXMEhttps://www.barrfoundation.org/grantmaking/grants/-- To act on Climate Ready Boston recommendations for priority flood mitigation in East Boston and Charlestown.
525,000.0022016-03-02FIXMEhttps://www.barrfoundation.org/grantmaking/grants/-- To close critical Hubway bike share gaps in transit-dependent neighborhoods.
150,000.0082014-09-17FIXMEhttps://www.barrfoundation.org/grantmaking/grants/-- To hire a Climate Preparedness Fellow for two years.
170,000.0062014-06-04FIXMEhttps://www.barrfoundation.org/grantmaking/grants/-- To support two Greenovate Boston Fellows to act as environmental sustainability champions across city departments and in the community.
262,500.0032014-06-04FIXMEhttps://www.barrfoundation.org/grantmaking/grants/-- To provide staffing support to facilitate a citywide visioning process and detailed action plan for integrating and empowering immigrants in Boston.
200,000.0052013-12-04FIXMEhttps://www.barrfoundation.org/grantmaking/grants/-- To hire a Greenovate Fellow to oversee the Boston Mobility Visioning process.
170,000.0062013-09-11FIXMEhttps://www.barrfoundation.org/grantmaking/grants/-- To update the City of Boston's Climate Action Plan.
260,000.0042013-03-07FIXMEhttps://www.barrfoundation.org/grantmaking/grants/-- To support strategy development for Renew Boston and to support an Energy Fellow at the Boston Redevelopment Authority.