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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.
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RAVE FOUNDATION | $17,263 |
| BLACK BURNER PROJECT | $10,000 |
| SEATTLE ART MUSEUM | $7,500 |
| SKATE LIKE A GIRL | $5,050 |
| SEATTLE POLICE FOUNDATION | $5,010 |
| YEARUP | $5,000 |
| CASA LATINA | $5,000 |
| USC ANNUAL FUND | $5,000 |
| THE IF PROJECT | $2,500 |
| PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| SURFRIDER FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| EPIPHANY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| SOUND EXPERIENCE | $1,030 |
| GLEN LAKE ASSOCIATION | $1,030 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- WSWELD SEATTLE4× · 2018–2025 · $623k · revenue ×16
- TITHE IF PROJECT4× · 2018–2024 · $106k · revenue +3%
Williams College4× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- MGMS GIFT PM BARTON FAMILY FUNDone grant, 2023 · $5.6M
- MGMS GIFT PM BARTON FAM FUNDone grant, 2022 · $4.0M
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +27%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
Seattle foundation's mission is to ignite powerful and rewarding philanthropy to make greater seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Seattle international foundation (sif) champions equity and rule of law in central america through good governance and a robust civil society. sif works with other donors to the region to increase philanthropy and to promote collaboration,…
Life science washington is a non-profit trade and professional association dedicated to promoting innovation and responsible growth in the life sciences and biomedical industries in the state of washington. promotion and education are…
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Praxis Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fernwood Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
103 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 103 of the 125 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds WELD SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT ↗
- Who funds THE IF PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL IMPACT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ↗
- Who funds THE PRAXIS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMEELIO INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LAKESIDE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Rave Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LITTLE SAIGON ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNITED FC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LAW CASA OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMON SENSE MEDIA ↗
- Who funds BLACK BURNER PROJECT CO ↗
- Who funds Brothers for Life ↗
- Who funds GLEN LAKE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC ↗
- Who funds EPIPHANY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HENRY GALLERY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Seattle Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds URBAN INITIATIVES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Barton Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- The Boys & Girls Aid Society of Oregon — 3% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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