Missouri · Private foundation
Donald L Barnes 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.
- $51k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Donald L Barnes Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $51k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $36k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $38k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $47k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $39k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $35k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $39k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $38k | 30% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starkloff Disability Institute | $104,795 | 8 | 2% |
| St Peters Episcopal Church | $45,846 | 9 | n/a |
| St Marks Episcopal Church | $27,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Stages St Louis | $26,330 | 5 | 0% |
| Classical Academy de Lafayette | $11,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Washington University | $10,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Brehm Preparatory School Inc | $9,760 | 5 | 0% |
| Individual Learning Solutions Inc | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Repertory Theatre of St Louis | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees | $2,950 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($95k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Donald L Barnes Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · St Louis Service Bureau Foundation · Pershing Charitable Trust · Fischer-Bauer-Knirps Foundation · Berges Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Donald L Barnes Foundation
- How much does Donald L Barnes Foundation give?
- Donald L Barnes Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $51,450 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Donald L Barnes Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (29%), Religion (22%), Education (16%).
- Who are Donald L Barnes Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Starkloff Disability Institute ($105k), St Peters Episcopal Church ($46k), St Marks Episcopal Church ($27k).
- Does Donald L Barnes Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Donald L Barnes Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Donald L Barnes Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, St Louis Community Foundation, United Way of Greater St Louis Inc.
- Where is Donald L Barnes Foundation based?
- Donald L Barnes Foundation is based in MO.
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