· Private foundation
Orrion and Edith Barger Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 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: 94% of ORRION AND EDITH BARGER MEMORIAL 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHAMBERLAIN SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDAT | $100,000 |
| CHAMBERLAIN OACOMA TRAILS COALITION | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| LAKE FRANCIS CASE ECONOMIC DEVELOPM | $20,000 |
| KIMBALL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HELPING ENDS MEET FOOD PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,250 |
| CHAMBERLAIN-OACOMA CHAMBER OF COMME | $5,250 |
| CHAMBERLAIN SCHOOL DISTRICT | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CHAMBERLAIN SCHOOL DISTRICT | $5,000 |
| JLS LOVE BIG PROJECT | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +59% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
- LFLAKE FRANCIS CASE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION4× · 2019–2024 · $79k · revenue +8%
- MVMISSOURI VALLEY CRISIS CENTER INC7× · 2019–2025 · $44k · revenue +59%
- TCThe Children's Ark Inc4× · 2019–2024 · $28k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- RVRELIANCE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPTone grant, 2019 · $45k
- CSCHAMBERLAIN SCHOOL DIST 7-12× · 2017–2018 · $40k
- GPGRANDVIEW PROPERTIES INCone grant, 2022 · $30k
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.
The dickinson area chamber of commerce will provide leadership to promote a progressive business environment.
Foster Business Development in Cozad, NE
Promote economic development in the mitchell, sd area
To provide a highly structured environment which emphasizes a safety and security to all juveniles while serving as a deterrent to criminal and anti-social behaviors. Working youth in the center and communities.
Economic development in the watertown, south dakota area.
Provide training and services for child abuse response.
The mission and purpose of the skamania county chamber of commerce is to foster development of a healthy economic community through the support and promotion of businesses, chamber members and skamania county, washington as an exceptional…
Providing day care services to mitchell county, iowa, and the surrounding area. 50 to 70 children are serviced on a daily basis.
Provider of early childhood education for preschool aged children and provider of daycare for infant through school aged children. the center is licensed for 75 children.
The Garretson Volunteer Fire Department serves the City of Garretson and surrounding communities in Eastern South Dakota. The Department is made up completely of volunteer fireman and is responsible for roughly 100 square miles within its…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dakota Milestones Inc and the most unlike its peers is Matson Halverson Christiansen Hamilton Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 54. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 9% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 5% 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.
13 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. 13 of the 106 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.
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: South Dakota Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Orrion and Edith Barger Memorial 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.
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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