· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Way of Saginaw | $4,700 |
| Underground Railroad Inc | $4,000 |
| READ Association | $3,500 |
| Girl Scouts | $3,000 |
| East Side Soup Kitchen | $2,700 |
| Emmaus House | $2,700 |
| Pit & Balcony Community Theatre | $2,700 |
| Saginaw Choral Society | $2,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,700 |
| Junior Achievement | $2,700 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $2,700 |
| Old Town Soup Kitchen | $2,700 |
| Make a Wish - Michigan | $2,700 |
| Saginaw Art Museum | $2,700 |
| LEAD | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 34 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 PIT & BALCONY INC ↗
- Who funds East Side Soup Kitchen ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS HOUSE OF SAGINAW INC ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW CHORAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds MID-MICHIGAN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS ↗
- Who funds ROCK THE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds SVRC Industries Inc ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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