Washington · Private foundation
Barton 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.
- $81k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2024
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
95% of Barton Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 18 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Barton Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 19 organizations, $81k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $17,263
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 33
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 42% of the organizations Barton Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 99% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 23 | $81k | 61% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $5.7M | 42% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $4.6M | 54% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $1.2M | 70% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $43k | 53% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $68k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $180k | 65% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $98k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weld Seattle | $623,000 | 4 | 11% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Year Up Inc | $165,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of Seattle Waterfront | $150,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The If Project | $106,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Williams College | $102,856 | 4 | 0% |
| Global Impact Ministries Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chinese Progressive Association | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Summer Search | $81,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Color of Changeorg Education Fund | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 99 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Barton Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 91 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Grousemont Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Glassybaby White Light Fund · United Way of King County · Artsfund · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Vitalogy Foundation
How this is measured
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About Barton Family Foundation
- How much does Barton Family Foundation give?
- Barton Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $80,861 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Barton Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (54%), Philanthropy (32%), Crime & Legal (4%).
- Who are Barton Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Weld Seattle ($623k), American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc ($200k), Year Up Inc ($165k).
- Does Barton Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Barton 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 Barton Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, Moccasin Lake Foundation.
- Where is Barton Family Foundation based?
- Barton Family Foundation is based in WA.
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