· Private foundation
Richard Barton Law Memorial Trust
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA OF THE GREAT LAKES BAY REGION | $2,500 |
| SVSU FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BAY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BLOOD CANCER FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN | $2,000 |
| LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $2,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS GLB REGION | $2,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN | $2,000 |
| EAGLE VILLAGE | $2,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN | $1,500 |
| MICHIGAN CROSSROADS COUNCIL | $1,500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
27 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MBMCLAREN BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +16%
- BBBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Great Lakes Bay Region9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +9%
- EVEagle Village Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +118%
Funded once
- CLCHILDREN'S LEUKEMIA FD OF MICHone grant, 2017 · $2k
- CMCS MOTT CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2024 · $2k
- NMN MICHIGAN MOBILE CHILD ADVOCACYone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
Collective bargaining and representation
To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
None
To instill in young people; values, develop leadership skills, and ethical character as expressed in the scout oath and law.
To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.
To apply the principles of workforce development to grow michigan's economy while improving the lives of michigan workers.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 32 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.
- Who funds MCLAREN BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Great Lakes Bay Region ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Eagle Village Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREAT LAKES BAY REGION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FISH TALES ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY SERVICES RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN HARVEST ↗
- Who funds CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT COUNCIL GREAT LAKES BAY REGION ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF BAY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ALLIANCE FC ↗
- Who funds LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA GREAT LAKES BAY REGION ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
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: Consumers Energy Foundation · Bay Area Community Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Nickless Family Charitable Foundation · Gougeon Employees Foundation · United Way of Bay County · Alden and Vada Dow Fund · Saginaw Community Foundation · Midland Area Community Foundation · Thompson Margaret C Charitable · Allison K Short Foundation · United Way of Saginaw County
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard Barton Law Memorial Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard Barton Law Memorial Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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