· Private foundation
Kari and Fred Barton Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of KARI AND FRED BARTON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $206k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $40,000 |
| FIREFIGHTER AND EMS AMBASSADORS SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $25,000 |
| ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY HIGH | $20,000 |
| ST LOUIS POLICE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ST LOUIS | $20,000 |
| ST GENEVIEVE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $17,000 |
| THE BENJAMIN SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| ST CLAIRE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $11,500 |
| ST PATRICK CENTER | $10,000 |
| JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| O'FALLON PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $9,000 |
| ST LOUIS FIRE ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| LEELANAU CONSERVANCY | $4,000 |
| GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against -73% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- JJJACKIE JOYNER KERSEE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +589%
- SPST PATRICK CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $39k · revenue +30%
- TITRAILNET INC5× · 2020–2024 · $33k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- OFORPHAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA D/B/A FOSTER CARE TO SUCCESS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -73%
- SAST ANN PLACEone grant, 2020 · $3k
- HLHAWTHORN LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR GIRLSone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -100%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
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…
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…
Avila university, a catholic university sponsored by saint joseph educational ministries, a ministerial public juridic person of the catholic church (sjem), is a values-based community of learning providing liberal arts, professional,…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…
To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
University is a 4 year private catholic institution, offering degrees in nursing, health/behavioral sciences, & humanities. the college is an integral part of the fmol health system.
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.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orphan Foundation of America D/B/a Foster Care to Success Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Firefighter and Ems Ambassadors Scholarship Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FONTBONNE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds MARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JACKIE JOYNER KERSEE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRAILNET INC ↗
- Who funds St Louis Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds FIREFIGHTER AND EMS AMBASSADORS SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BENJAMIN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds CRUDEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds O'Fallon Professional Firefighters Community Outreach ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds ORPHAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA D/B/A FOSTER CARE TO SUCCESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St Louis World Food Day Inc ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HAWTHORN LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds ROHAN WOODS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOLY NAME MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING LANDS & WATERS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Pecha Family Foundation · Berges Family Foundation · Ameren Charitable Trust (Union Electric · Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern Missouri · Interco Charitable Trust · The Shaughnessy Family Foundation · Ravarino Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Kari and Fred Barton Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Holy Name Medical Center Inc — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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