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Barbasol Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$418k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2024
30
Organizations funded FY2023
37%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 30
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$1.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 37% of the organizations Barbasol Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
Human ServicesReligionHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving30$268k43%
FY202330$285k37%
FY202227$187k67%
FY202117$122kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$329kHealth$158kPhilanthropy$152kYouth Development$125kHuman Services$102kArts & Culture$55kFood & Nutrition$41kHousing & Shelter$22kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IN
OH
PA
CA
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AZ
TN
DC
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Treasure House$100,00041%
A Kid Again Inc$75,00030%
Wellity Education$48,30048%
Seeds of Caring$45,10042%
The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio$31,00031%
Ruling Our Experiences Inc$27,90021%
Family Mentor Foundation$20,00033%
Local Matters$20,00031%
Columbus Housing Partnership Inc$17,00030%
Best Buddies International Inc$10,00010%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($405k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Barbasol Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTreasure House: $100,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetA Kid Again Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWellity Education: $48,300 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetSeeds of Caring: $45,100 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetThe Contemporary Theatre of Ohio: $31,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetRuling Our Experiences Inc: $27,900 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFamily Mentor Foundation: $20,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetLocal Matters: $20,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetColumbus Housing Partnership Inc: $17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeartland High School: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPelotonia: $7,270 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetStudent Success Stores: $5,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetFoundations Community Childcare Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFemergy: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Homeless Families Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCollege Golf Fellowship: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Columbus: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHealthy Kids Running Series: $1,850 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAngela Stanford Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBetter Way Ministries: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUtah Down Syndrome Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAshland County Cancer Association Inc: $950 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHarpers Corner Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPga Tour Charities Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Link Mission Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborhood Services Inc: $412 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDown Syndrome Association of Central Ohio: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFranklinton Cycleworks: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVeterans Care Network: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of North Central Ohio Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association Ashland Ohio Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriendship Animal Protective League: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 36.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Columbus FoundationOH41.3× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Cardinal Health Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · L Brands Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Barbasol Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Barbasol Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Barbasol Foundation

How much does Barbasol Foundation give?
Barbasol Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $418,070 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 30 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Barbasol Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (32%), Health (16%), Philanthropy (15%).
Who are Barbasol Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Treasure House ($100k), A Kid Again Inc ($75k), Wellity Education ($48k).
Does Barbasol Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Barbasol Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Barbasol Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbus Foundation, Ingram-White Castle Foundation, Harry C Moores Foundation.
Where is Barbasol Foundation based?
Barbasol Foundation is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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