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Barnston Koutsaftis Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$24k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
10%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 16
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$368k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Barnston Koutsaftis Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Public BenefitAnimalsHuman ServicesInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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 arriving8$24k0%
FY202410$25k10%
FY20239$19k0%
FY202210$23k0%
FY202110$19k10%
FY202016$25k6%
FY201915$20k27%
FY201811$13kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$58kHealth$48kAnimals$15kInternational$12kEducation$12kPhilanthropy$9kEmployment$7kArts & Culture$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
CA
CO
VA
KS
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Barnston Koutsaftis Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Heroes Linked$34,00063%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$10,50070%
Room to Read$10,00080%
Wildlife Conservation Society$6,00060%
Big Cat Rescue Corp$4,50030%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$4,00060%
Navy Seal Foundation Inc$3,50070%
Wildaid Inc$2,50030%
Habitat for Humanity International Inc$2,00020%
African Wildlife Foundation Inc$2,00030%
A Childs Notebook$1,50020%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($86k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHeroes Linked: $34,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $10,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRoom to Read: $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBig Cat Rescue Corp: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNavy Seal Foundation Inc: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWildaid Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity International Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAfrican Wildlife Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA Childs Notebook: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% 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 11.

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About Barnston Koutsaftis Family Foundation

How much does Barnston Koutsaftis Family Foundation give?
Barnston Koutsaftis Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $23,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Barnston Koutsaftis Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (35%), Health (29%), Animals (9%).
Who are Barnston Koutsaftis Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Heroes Linked ($34k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($11k), Room to Read ($10k).
Does Barnston Koutsaftis Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Barnston Koutsaftis Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Barnston Koutsaftis Family Foundation based?
Barnston Koutsaftis Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 18 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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