· Private foundation
Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Way of Saginaw | $4,700 |
| Underground Railroad Inc | $4,000 |
| READ Association | $3,500 |
| Girl Scouts | $3,000 |
| Saginaw Art Museum | $2,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,700 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $2,700 |
| Old Town Soup Kitchen | $2,700 |
| Make a Wish - Michigan | $2,700 |
| Saginaw Choral Society | $2,700 |
| Junior Achievement | $2,700 |
| East Side Soup Kitchen | $2,700 |
| Emmaus House | $2,700 |
| Pit & Balcony Community Theatre | $2,700 |
| Mid Michigan Childrens Museum | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% 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.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- SVSAGINAW VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY7× · 2017–2023 · $31k · revenue +33%
- URUNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC6× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +39%
- TTEMPLEARTS9× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +385%
Funded once
- SSVRCone grant, 2022 · $2k
- SISVRC Industries Incone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +5%
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.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
Creating magical and memorable experiences through the power of symphonic music. Our Orchestra performs five live concerts per season at the Temple Theatre in downtown Saginaw.
The historical society of saginaw county is committed to serve the community by telling the continuing story of the people of the saginaw region through exploration, preservation and presentation of their historical and cultural heritage.
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
Support library activities through materials and services
To present west michigan audiences with high quality broadway productions and to provide student arts education programs, enriching the community through professional performing arts, as well as to expand the diversity of theatre in the…
Enrich community life via the theatre and creative arts.
Promotion of conventions & tourism in saginaw county
Education of young people in the Montessori method
To enrich the communities of Southeastern Michigan in fostering excellence and innovation to our community in the performance of orchestral music to educate current and future audiences
To nuture a life-long love of music through imaginative and inspiring experiences for the listeners of today and tomorrow.
The mission of saginaw county community action committee, inc. is to fully participate in the development, planning, implementation, and evaluation of programs to serve low-income communities. the organization will serve as a proactive and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Templearts and the most unlike its peers is Pit & Balcony Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 34 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 Saginaw Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds READ Association of Saginaw County ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC ↗
- Who funds TEMPLEARTS ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW CHORAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS HOUSE OF SAGINAW INC ↗
- Who funds PIT & BALCONY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds East Side Soup Kitchen ↗
- Who funds MID-MICHIGAN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS ↗
- Who funds ROCK THE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds SVRC Industries 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: 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
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 Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable 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.
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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