· Private foundation
Orrion and Edith Barger Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHAMBERLAIN SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDAT | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| CHAMBERLAIN OACOMA TRAILS COALITION | $75,000 |
| LAKE FRANCIS CASE ECONOMIC DEVELOPM | $20,000 |
| KIMBALL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| HELPING ENDS MEET FOOD PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CHAMBERLAIN-OACOMA CHAMBER OF COMME | $5,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| JLS LOVE BIG PROJECT | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| FISHING FOR A CURE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 106 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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.
Open a dossier: South Dakota Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Orrion and Edith Barger Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Orrion and Edith Barger Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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