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Barks Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
75%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$300
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 4
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$51k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Barks Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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
FY2025still arriving5$2k60%
FY20244$2k75%
FY20223$2k67%
FY20212$2k100%
FY20202$2kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$4kHealth$3kHuman Services$2kEducation$800Housing & Shelter$500Civil Rights$300

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Barks Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Operation Food Search Inc$2,10020%
St Martha's Hall$1,10010%
Independence Center$1,10010%
EarthDance$1,10010%
Cape Coral Caring Center Inc$1,00010%
St Louis Area Food Bank Inc$1,00010%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$80030%
St Matthews House Inc$50020%
The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration$40010%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$30010%
Gladiolus Food Pantry Inc$2001n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($700), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOperation Food Search Inc: $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Martha's Hall: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIndependence Center: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEarthDance: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCape Coral Caring Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Louis Area Food Bank Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Matthews House Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $300 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 10.

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.

The Blackbaud Giving FundSC11.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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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About Barks Family Foundation

How much does Barks Family Foundation give?
Barks Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $2,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Barks Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (41%), Health (25%), Human Services (19%).
Who are Barks Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Operation Food Search Inc ($2k), St Martha's Hall ($1k), Independence Center ($1k).
Does Barks Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Barks Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Barks Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Barks Family Foundation based?
Barks Family Foundation is based in FL.

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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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