Kansas · Private foundation
The Barton Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $85k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $36,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 22
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $976k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations The Barton Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 23 | $85k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $75k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $73k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $74k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $60k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $57k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunter Health Clinic | $36,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Wichita Children's Home | $35,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Mark Arts Inc | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Heartspring Inc | $24,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wichita Public Library Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Sunlight Children's Services Inc | $14,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Kansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc | $10,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Humankind Ministries Wichita Inc | $9,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Ujump Inc | $8,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Youth Entrepreneurs Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunter Health Clinic | $36,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Wichita Children's Home | $35,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Mark Arts Inc | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Heartspring Inc | $24,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wichita Public Library Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Sunlight Children's Services Inc | $14,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Kansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc | $10,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Humankind Ministries Wichita Inc | $9,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Ujump Inc | $8,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Youth Entrepreneurs Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Union Rescue Mission of Wichita Inc | $7,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum Association | $6,500 | 6 | 0% |
| We Treat Kids Right | $5,500 | 3 | 3% |
| Kansas Public Telecommunications Service | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Wichita Animal Action League | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Wichita Cancer Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sedgwick County Zoological Society Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| South Rock Christian Church | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| Tabor College | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($203k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Barton 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.
Open a dossier: Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Ima Foundation · Berry Foundation Inc · Wichita Foundation · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · United Way of the Plains Inc · Mosby Lincoln Foundation · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · The Sunderland Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation
How this is measured
About The Barton Foundation
- How much does The Barton Foundation give?
- The Barton Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $84,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Barton Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Health (19%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are The Barton Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Hunter Health Clinic ($36k), The Wichita Children's Home ($36k), Mark Arts Inc ($25k).
- Does The Barton Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Barton Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Barton Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353, Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation, Ima Foundation.
- Where is The Barton Foundation based?
- The Barton Foundation is based in KS.
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