· Private foundation
Richard W and Theresa R Barch Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| MI TROUT UNLIMITED | $10,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| LAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| LAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +99% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 1 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
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DUDucks Unlimited Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $44k · revenue +99%
Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $41k · revenue +375%- TUTROUT UNLIMITED MICHIGAN COUNCIL6× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- MLMICHIGAN LEADERSHIP INSTITUTEone grant, 2021 · $13k
BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INCone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -26%- RGRUFFED GROUSE SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +31%
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.
Ducks unlimited, inc. conserves, restores, and manages wetlands and associated habitats for north america's waterfowl. these habitats also benefit additional wildlife and people.
Established in 1961, the ruffed grouse society unites conservationists to improve wildlife habitat and forest health and promote a conservation ethic, all grounded in the tenets of science-based management practices.
To conserve functioning salmon/steelhead eco-system at watershed levels, integrate angling activities with basic scientific research, collect raw data, monitor environmental functions, salmon/steelhead population dynamics, public…
Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.
To guarantee all americans quality places to hunt and fish.
Wetlands america trust, inc. is a nonprofit organization formed in 1985 to expand ducks unlimited, inc's mission to provide leadership in the protection of the natural balance of wetlands ecosystems ensuring the future viability of…
To conserve, protect and restore montana's coldwater fisheries and watersheds.
To conserve, protect and restore colorado's coldwater fisheries and their watersheds.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Wwt's mission is to protect and restore water in rivers and streams across washington state. washington water trust restores and protects water in rivers and streams and promotes sustainable freshwater management in washington, and, more…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 19 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 HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED MICHIGAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NRA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds RUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds USA Shooting Inc ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard W and Theresa R Barch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard W and Theresa R Barch Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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