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Craig and Gisele Barto Family Foundation at a glance

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Craig and Gisele Barto Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$28k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$491kArts & Culture$73kYouth Development$6kReligion$5k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$134k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS$15,000
PRETEND CITY THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY$5,000
ORANGE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION$5,000
NEWPORT HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY FOUNDATION$2,800
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $15k → 10%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION: $1k → 23%PRETEND CITY THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY: $11k → 10%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%PRETEND CITY THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY: $5k → 10%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%PRETEND CITY THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY: $5k → 10%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%PRETEND CITY THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY: $5k → 10%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%PRETEND CITY THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY: $5k → 10%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%PRETEND CITY THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY: $5k → 10%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%PRETEND CITY THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY: $5k → 10%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%PRETEND CITY THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY: $5k → 10%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%PRETEND CITY THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY: $5k → 10%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%PRETEND CITY THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY: $3k → 10%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%PRETEND CITY THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY: $3k → 10%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%PRETEND CITY THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY: $3k → 10%NEWPORT BEACH JUNIOR LIFEGUARD FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%NEWPORT HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%NEWPORT HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%NEWPORT HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%NEWPORT HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%NEWPORT HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%NEWPORT HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%NEWPORT HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%ORANGE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 72% of Craig and Gisele Barto Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Craig and Gisele Barto Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$95k · 3 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
2

Total granted

$95k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%
+169%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PC
    PRETEND CITY THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +84%
  • NH
    NEWPORT HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $21k · revenue +92%
  • LM
    LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • NB
    NEWPORT BEACH JUNIOR LIFEGUARD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -98%
  • TE
    THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +169%
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
05the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 8 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UCLA FOUNDATION: $455,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONNEWPORT HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY FOUNDATION: $21,200 · Education+1 more: $15,000 · EducationPRETEND CITY THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY: $58,375 · Arts & CulturePRETEND CITY T…Segerstrom Center for the Arts: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSegerstrom Cen…NEWPORT BEACH JUNIOR LIFEGUARD FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentORANGE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherTHE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Education$491,200Arts & Culture$73,375Youth Development$5,000Other$5,000Philanthropy$1,000

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 budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $455,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPRETEND CITY THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY: $58,375 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetNEWPORT HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY FOUNDATION: $21,200 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetSegerstrom Center for the Arts: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEWPORT BEACH JUNIOR LIFEGUARD FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Craig and Gisele Barto Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Craig and Gisele Barto Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 8 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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