South Dakota · Private foundation
Orrion and Edith Barger Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $425k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Orrion and Edith Barger Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 42 | $425k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $372k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $441k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $464k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $396k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $354k | 34% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $405k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $417k | 39% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chamberlain School District Foundation | $357,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Lake Francis Case Development Corporation | $79,000 | 4 | 24% |
| St Josephs Indian School | $55,500 | 9 | n/a |
| United Church of Christ | $45,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Missouri Valley Crisis Center Inc | $43,800 | 7 | 5% |
| Chamberlain Swim Team | $41,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Helping Ends Meet Food Program | $40,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Fishing for a Cure Inc | $36,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Children's Ark Inc | $28,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Missouri Valley Ambulance Service | $23,000 | 2 | 4% |
Show all 24 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chamberlain School District Foundation | $357,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Lake Francis Case Development Corporation | $79,000 | 4 | 24% |
| St Josephs Indian School | $55,500 | 9 | n/a |
| United Church of Christ | $45,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Missouri Valley Crisis Center Inc | $43,800 | 7 | 5% |
| Chamberlain Swim Team | $41,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Helping Ends Meet Food Program | $40,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Fishing for a Cure Inc | $36,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Children's Ark Inc | $28,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Missouri Valley Ambulance Service | $23,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Kimball Economic Development Corporation | $17,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Central Dakota Development Corp | $13,500 | 1 | n/a |
| First Circuit Casa | $12,300 | 7 | 1% |
| Dakota Milestones Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Matson Halverson Christiansen Hamilton Foundation | $11,500 | 1 | 16% |
| Chamberlain-Oacoma Area Chamber of Commerce | $9,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Treehouse Inc | $8,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Diamond Willow Ministries | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Lower Brule Sioux Tribe | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jls Love Big Project | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Josephs Catholic Church | $2,380 | 1 | n/a |
| Embe | $2,320 | 2 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of South Dakota | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kimball Area Horizons Team Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 82 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Orrion and Edith Barger Memorial Foundation 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.
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How this is measured
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About Orrion and Edith Barger Memorial Foundation
- How much does Orrion and Edith Barger Memorial Foundation give?
- Orrion and Edith Barger Memorial Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $425,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Orrion and Edith Barger Memorial Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (35%), Education (20%), Public Safety & Disaster (11%).
- Who are Orrion and Edith Barger Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chamberlain School District Foundation ($357k), Lake Francis Case Development Corporation ($79k), St Josephs Indian School ($56k).
- Does Orrion and Edith Barger Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Orrion and Edith Barger Memorial Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Orrion and Edith Barger Memorial Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include South Dakota Community Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Orrion and Edith Barger Memorial Foundation based?
- Orrion and Edith Barger Memorial Foundation is based in SD.
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