Mississippi · Private foundation
Dorsey J Barefield Charitable Trust
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.
- $80k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 24
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- 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, 15% of the organizations Dorsey J Barefield Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 19 | $80k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $72k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $77k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $73k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $70k | 4% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $67k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reformed Theological Seminary | $60,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Christ Covenant School LLC | $28,500 | 6 | n/a |
| The Wilson Research Foundation | $19,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Stewpot Community Services Inc | $19,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Gateway Rescue Mission Inc | $17,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Junior League of Jackson Ms Inc | $13,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Mississippi Foundation | $10,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Craftsmans Guild of Mississippi Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Benton Academy | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Mississippi College | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reformed Theological Seminary | $60,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Christ Covenant School LLC | $28,500 | 6 | n/a |
| The Wilson Research Foundation | $19,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Stewpot Community Services Inc | $19,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Gateway Rescue Mission Inc | $17,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Junior League of Jackson Ms Inc | $13,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Mississippi Foundation | $10,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Craftsmans Guild of Mississippi Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Benton Academy | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Mississippi College | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bethesda Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Buried Treasures Home Inc | $5,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Lifeline Children's Services Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Larry Black Ministries Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Health Care Foundation of North Ms | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Hudspeth | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| But God Ministries | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($224k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dorsey J Barefield Charitable Trust 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: Ergon Foundation Inc · The Gertrude C Ford Foundation Inc · Kathryn & Julian Wiener Fund · Feild Co-Operative Association · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Dorsey J Barefield Charitable Trust
- How much does Dorsey J Barefield Charitable Trust give?
- Dorsey J Barefield Charitable Trust reported 20 grants totaling $80,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Dorsey J Barefield Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (16%), Education (16%), Health (12%).
- Who are Dorsey J Barefield Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Reformed Theological Seminary ($61k), Christ Covenant School LLC ($29k), The Wilson Research Foundation ($20k).
- Does Dorsey J Barefield Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dorsey J Barefield Charitable Trust 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 Dorsey J Barefield Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ergon Foundation Inc, The Gertrude C Ford Foundation Inc, Kathryn & Julian Wiener Fund.
- Where is Dorsey J Barefield Charitable Trust based?
- Dorsey J Barefield Charitable Trust is based in MS.
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