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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.

$81k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

12
’17
20
’18
20
’19
16
’20
32
’21
20
’22
24
’23
19
’24
18
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$9.6MPhilanthropy$5.6MCrime & Legal$796kCivil Rights$506kEducation$278kEmployment$261kRecreation & Sports$200kArts & Culture$182kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
$2,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
USC ANNUAL FUND$5,000
CASA LATINA$5,000
THE IF PROJECT$2,500
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$2,500
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FOUNDATION$2,500
SURFRIDER FOUNDATION$2,500
EPIPHANY SCHOOL$2,000
SOUND EXPERIENCE$1,030
GLEN LAKE ASSOCIATION$1,030
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYS & GIRLS AID: $500 → 12%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 17%MAX CURE FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%URBAN INITIATIVES: $3k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES: $3k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES: $3k → 14%FAMILY LAW CASA: $3k → 9%FAMILY LAW CASA: $3k → 9%FAMILY LAW CASA: $3k → 9%FACING HOMELESSNESS: $100 → 9%FAMILY LAW CASA: $3k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

11%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 39 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
61

Total granted

$1.4M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+7%

Still filing today

85%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WS
    WELD SEATTLE
    4× · 2018–2025 · $623k · revenue ×16
  • TI
    THE IF PROJECT
    4× · 2018–2024 · $106k · revenue +3%
  • Williams College
    4× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • MG
    MS GIFT PM BARTON FAMILY FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $5.6M
  • MG
    MS GIFT PM BARTON FAM FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $4.0M
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +27%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Siff

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.

Youth Development
2
Seattle Foundation

Seattle foundation's mission is to ignite powerful and rewarding philanthropy to make greater seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all.

Philanthropy
3
The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment
4
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
5
Seattle International Foundation

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,…

Philanthropy
6
Life Science Washington

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…

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7
Association of Washington Cities

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…

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8
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

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…

Education
9
United States Naval Institute

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.

—
10
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

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,…

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11
Kqed Inc

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;…

Arts & Culture
12
Fsc I&P

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.…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Praxis Project Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

103 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/103
Grantees still filing
62/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MS GIFT PM BARTON FAMILY FUND: $5,618,222 · OtherMS GIFT PM BARTON FAMILY FUNDMS GIFT PM BARTON FAM FUND: $4,000,000 · OtherMS GIFT PM BARTON FAM FUND+75 more: $714,717 · Other+75 moreMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $4,600,000 · PhilanthropyMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDIN…Silicon Valley Community Foundation: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropySilicon Valley Community Foundation+2 more: $7,500 · PhilanthropyWELD SEATTLE: $623,000 · Crime & LegalTHE IF PROJECT: $106,000 · Crime & Legal+3 more: $11,591 · Crime & LegalYEAR UP INC: $165,000 · EducationWilliams College: $102,856 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $100,000 · EducationLAKESIDE SCHOOL: $30,000 · Education+14 more: $39,890 · EducationAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · Civil RightsCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $75,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $3,605 · Civil RightsFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT: $150,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $50,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF LITTLE SAIGON: $15,450 · Community ImprovementCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · HealthTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC: $50,000 · HealthTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $11,588 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $6,500 · Health+11 more: $14,693 · Health
Other$10,332,939Philanthropy$5,607,500Crime & Legal$740,591Education$437,746Civil Rights$278,605Community Improvement$215,450Health$182,781

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $4,600,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELD SEATTLE: $623,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $165,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT: $150,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE IF PROJECT: $106,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWilliams College: $102,856 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $81,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMEELIO INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $41,725 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLAKESIDE SCHOOL: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRave Foundation: $22,263 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $12,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $11,588 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY LAW CASA OF KING COUNTY: $10,289 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMON SENSE MEDIA: $10,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrothers for Life: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK BURNER PROJECT CO: $10,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetGLEN LAKE ASSOCIATION INC: $9,590 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC: $9,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEPIPHANY SCHOOL: $8,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HENRY GALLERY ASSOCIATION INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSeattle Police Foundation: $7,510 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN INITIATIVES INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFARESTART: $6,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Impact: $6,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $5,757 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCODEORG: $5,313 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST FILM FORUM: $5,150 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSKATE LIKE A GIRL: $5,050 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON STEM CENTER: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASA LATINA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEL DORADO FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE MAX CURE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBREAKING BOUNDARIES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Moccasin Lake Foundat…Wyman Youth TrustGs Donor Advised Phil…Grousemont FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…Glassybaby White Ligh…United Way of King Co…ArtsfundMarie Lamfrom Charita…Vitalogy Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA43.2× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Barton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Barton Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Barton Family 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.

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 125 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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