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Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$55k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
22
Organizations funded FY2023
5%
First-time grantees FY2023
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96% of Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Saginaw Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $55k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

12
’17
12
’18
13
’19
10
’20
10
’21
9
’22
10
’23
9
’24
9
’25

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

Median grant, FY2024
$2,700
Largest grant, FY2024
$4,700
Organizations funded a year
18 to 24
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 5% of the organizations Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEmploymentOther
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
FY2024still arriving19$55k5%
FY202322$57k5%
FY202223$58k9%
FY202124$60k4%
FY202022$55k14%
FY201924$56k13%
FY201821$55k14%
FY201718$48kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.5MArts & Culture$126kEducation$72kYouth Development$59kFood & Nutrition$45kHousing & Shelter$45kAnimals$31kRecreation & Sports$27kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
READ Association of Saginaw County$32,09393%
Saginaw Valley Zoological Society$30,75070%
Underground Railroad Inc$22,28360%
Templearts$22,25091%
Pit & Balcony Inc$22,25092%
East Side Soup Kitchen$22,25091%
Emmaus House of Saginaw Inc$22,25091%
Saginaw Choral Society Inc$22,25091%
Habitat for Humanity$22,25091%
Mid-Michigan Children's Museum$15,30061%
Major Chords for Minors$12,25052%
Rock the Island$10,50031%
Saginaw Valley State University$7,0003n/a
SVRC Industries Inc$1,50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($242k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetREAD Association of Saginaw County: $32,093 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetSaginaw Valley Zoological Society: $30,750 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetUnderground Railroad Inc: $22,283 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTemplearts: $22,250 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetPit & Balcony Inc: $22,250 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetEast Side Soup Kitchen: $22,250 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetEmmaus House of Saginaw Inc: $22,250 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetSaginaw Choral Society Inc: $22,250 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetHabitat for Humanity: $22,250 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetMid-Michigan Children's Museum: $15,300 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMajor Chords for Minors: $12,250 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetRock the Island: $10,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSVRC Industries Inc: $1,500 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 13.

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.

Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial FoundationMI32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Alice E Turner Memorial Trust · Frank N Andersen Foundation · Saginaw Community Foundation · Wm McNally Family Foundation · Morley Foundation · Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · Boutell Memorial Fund · Harvey Memorial Foundation · Harvey Randall Wickes Foundation · Bierlein Companies 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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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.

About Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable Foundation

How much does Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable Foundation give?
Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $54,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (76%), Arts & Culture (6%), Education (4%).
Who are Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: READ Association of Saginaw County ($32k), Saginaw Valley Zoological Society ($31k), Underground Railroad Inc ($22k).
Does Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation, Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation, Alice E Turner Memorial Trust.
Where is Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable Foundation based?
Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable Foundation is based in MI.

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 34 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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