· 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE STARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| NORTH AMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCH | $9,750 |
| BREHM PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $7,010 |
| SAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| STAGES ST LOUIS | $5,000 |
| ST PETER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $4,000 |
| CRAB ORCHARD SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| MUNY GUARANTORS FUND | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| ST LOUIS BROWNS FAN CLUB | $500 |
| VA MARION HEALTH CARE | $500 |
| TREE HOUSE OF GREATER ST LOUIS | $500 |
| ST LOUIS BRIDGE CENTER | $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 (FY19–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Donald L Barnes Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
41 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SDSTARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +314%
- SSSTAGES ST LOUIS5× · 2021–2025 · $26k · revenue +7%
- CACLASSICAL ACADEMY DE LAFAYETTE4× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +193%
Funded once
- ILINDIVIDUAL LEARNING SOLUTIONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue ×55
- AHANNIE'S HOPEone grant, 2023 · $5k
- KSKODY SNODGRASS MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…
To provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.
The mission of the siue east st. louis charter high school is to prepare sudents, who are career - and college - ready, upon graduation.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Park university's mission is to transform lives through accessible, student-centered, quality higher education.
Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.
For more than a century, southwestern has educated lawyers ready to serve clients, the profession, and our society with excellence. we empower students to reach their potential. we cultivate inclusion and belonging. we promote equity and…
Support the st. louis science center and its comprehensive array of educational outreach programs to the community in order to increase interest, understanding and enthusiasm for stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
See schedule o.saint peter's university, inspired by its jesuit, catholic identity, commitment to individual attention, and grounding in the liberal arts, educates a diverse community of learners in undergraduate, graduate and professional…
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
How this is measured
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 88 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 STARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds STAGES ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds CLASSICAL ACADEMY DE LAFAYETTE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BREHM PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds INDIVIDUAL LEARNING SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE REPERTORY THEATRE OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TREE HOUSE OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS BRIDGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Donald L Barnes Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald L Barnes Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
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