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George & Hazel Barber Scholarship Trust at a glance

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George & Hazel Barber Scholarship 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.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$2k
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 2025.

Education$171k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,618
Median grant
4
States reached
$296k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY$1,618
JOHN WOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE$1,618
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$1,618
MOBERLY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$1,618
EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY$1,618
Individual grant recipient$1,618
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS$1,618
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI$1,618
JOHN WOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE$1,618
MONMOUTH COLLEGE$1,618
LINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE$1,618
MOBERLY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$1,618
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN: $2k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: $2k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $2k → 15%THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $2k → 17%MISSOURI BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%WESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $2k → 11%CULVER STOCKTON COLLEGE: $2k → 14%MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS: $3k → 15%MISSOURI VALLEY COLLEGE: $2k → 15%COLUMBIA COLLEGE - ELAINA DYKE: $2k → 17%MOBERLY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 17%NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND P: $2k → 21%TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 28%BELMONT UNIVERSITY STUFENT FINANCIA: $2k → 14%ILLINOIS COLLEGE: $2k → 12%JOHN WOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $5k → 13%OLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY - KAITLY: $2k → 14%BRADLEY UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%MONMOUTH COLLEGE: $2k → 16%LAKELAND COLLEGE: $2k → 18%WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY: $3k → 20%SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY OF CAR: $2k → 23%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY - LAYKIN EB: $2k → 19%MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 15%MOBERLY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 17%NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 17%TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 28%ILLINOIS COLLEGE: $2k → 12%JOHN WOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $3k → 13%EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY: $2k → 18%MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 15%TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY - EMILY DE: $2k → 28%JOHN WOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 13%MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY - NATALIE: $2k → 15%TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY - LILY GRIF: $2k → 28%JOHN WOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST LOUIS: $2k → 11%JOHN WOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $4k → 19%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%JOHN WOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE - LANDO: $2k → 13%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY - ST LOUIS -: $2k → 11%JOHN WOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE - JAEDY: $2k → 13%JOHN WOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE - JULIA: $2k → 13%QUINCY UNIVERSITY: $5k → 13%QUINCY UNIVERSITY: $2k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
IA
IN
NE
MO
VA
KS
AR
TN
AL
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$64k · 9 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
57

Total granted

$64k
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+19%

Still filing today

44%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • QU
    QUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
    4× · 2018–2024 · $11k · revenue +65%
  • MU
    Maryville University - St Louis
    2× · 2018–2021 · $5k · revenue +27%
  • IC
    ILLINOIS COLLEGE
    2× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • WI
    WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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

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.

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Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education
3
Mcdaniel College Inc

Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…

Education
4
Coker University

Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…

Education
5
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
6
Simpson College

Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.

Education
7
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
8
Drury University

Drury University is an independent university, church-related, grounded in the liberal arts tradition and committed to personalized education in a community of scholars who value the arts of teaching and learning. (Continued on Schedule O)

Education
9
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
10
John Brown University

John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…

Education
11
LaGrange College

Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…

Education
12
Union College

Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Baptist University; the most unlike its peers is Southern Illinois University Alumni Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 73 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHN WOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $14,876 · OtherJOHN WOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGEMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY: $7,950 · OtherMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $7,833 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURITRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $6,373 · OtherNORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY: $4,722 · Other+53 more: $87,939 · Other+53 moreQUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $11,154 · EducationQUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATI…Maryville University - St Louis: $4,663 · EducationMaryville University - St L…ILLINOIS COLLEGE: $3,283 · EducationILLINOIS COLLEGEWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $3,172 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYCENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $3,108 · EducationCENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSIT…CULVER-STOCKTON COLLEGE: $1,695 · EducationMONMOUTH COLLEGE: $1,618 · EducationLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $1,618 · EducationWESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $1,615 · EducationMissouri Baptist University: $1,615 · EducationMISSOURI VALLEY COLLEGE: $1,615 · EducationBRADLEY UNIVERSITY: $1,588 · EducationLINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM: $1,556 · EducationCOE COLLEGE: $1,554 · EducationSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $1,553 · Education
Other$129,693Education$41,407

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetQUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $11,154 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMaryville University - St Louis: $4,663 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS COLLEGE: $3,283 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $3,172 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $3,108 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarding University Inc: $1,695 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCULVER-STOCKTON COLLEGE: $1,695 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONMOUTH COLLEGE: $1,618 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $1,618 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $1,615 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMissouri Baptist University: $1,615 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOURI VALLEY COLLEGE: $1,615 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRADLEY UNIVERSITY: $1,588 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM: $1,556 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOE COLLEGE: $1,554 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds QUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Maryville University - St Louis ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Harding University Inc ↗
  • Who funds CULVER-STOCKTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MONMOUTH COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTMINSTER COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Missouri Baptist University ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI VALLEY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BRADLEY UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Griffin Family Founda…Ibm International Fou…Tulsa Community Found…Pittsfield High Schoo…Missouri Colleges Fun…T Michal Flottman Sch…William Edgar Charita…Tammy Stratman Brown …Ernst & Young Foundat…Charities Aid Foundat…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Swope Memorial Loan F…
Griffin Family Foundation IncMO17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Griffin Family Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Pittsfield High School Class of 1954 Scholarship Fund Inc · Missouri Colleges Fund Inc · T Michal Flottman Scholarship Trust · William Edgar Charitable Foundation · Tammy Stratman Brown Charities · Ernst & Young Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Swope Memorial Loan Fund

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 George & Hazel Barber Scholarship Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George & Hazel Barber Scholarship Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 73 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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