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Kari and Fred Barton Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$248k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2024
22
Organizations funded FY2023
18%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
20 to 24
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$5.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Kari and Fred Barton Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
EducationEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving24$208k25%
FY202322$192k18%
FY202221$230k24%
FY202120$221k0%
FY202024$198kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$598kRecreation & Sports$229kPublic Safety & Disaster$125kReligion$76kYouth Development$56kHousing & Shelter$51kHealth$26kEnvironment$23kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
MA
IN
OH
NJ
MO
MD
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fontbonne University$180,00040%
St Louis University High School$140,0005n/a
Marian Middle School$100,00051%
Jackie Joyner Kersee Foundation$50,00050%
St Patrick Center$39,00050%
Trailnet Inc$32,50051%
St Louis Police Foundation$31,50031%
Firefighter and EMS Ambassadors Scholarship Fund$25,000136%
Worldwide Fistula Fund$22,50051%
The Benjamin Private School Inc$17,50020%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($286k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Kari and Fred Barton Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFontbonne University: $180,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMarian Middle School: $100,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJackie Joyner Kersee Foundation: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSt Patrick Center: $39,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTrailnet Inc: $32,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSt Louis Police Foundation: $31,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFirefighter and EMS Ambassadors Scholarship Fund: $25,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetWorldwide Fistula Fund: $22,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetThe Benjamin Private School Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCrudem Foundation Inc: $9,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLeelanau Conservancy: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHope Ignites St Louis: $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPeter & Paul Community Services Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMissouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOrphan Foundation of America D/B/A Foster Care to Success Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Louis World Food Day Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetGrand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLoyola Academy of St Louis: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHawthorn Leadership School for Girls: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRohan Woods School: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLiving Lands & Waters: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHoly Name Medical Center Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

United Way of Greater St Louis IncMO25.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

Compare Kari and Fred Barton Charitable Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to Kari and Fred Barton Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kari and Fred Barton Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Kari and Fred Barton Charitable Foundation

How much does Kari and Fred Barton Charitable Foundation give?
Kari and Fred Barton Charitable Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $247,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Kari and Fred Barton Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (49%), Recreation & Sports (19%), Public Safety & Disaster (10%).
Who are Kari and Fred Barton Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Fontbonne University ($180k), St Louis University High School ($140k), Marian Middle School ($100k).
Does Kari and Fred Barton Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kari and Fred Barton Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kari and Fred Barton Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater St Louis Inc, St Louis Community Foundation, St Louis Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Kari and Fred Barton Charitable Foundation based?
Kari and Fred Barton Charitable Foundation is based in FL.

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 40 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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