· Private foundation
The Barton Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $36k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUNTER HEALTH CLINIC | $36,000 |
| WICHITA CHILDRENS HOME | $5,500 |
| MARK ARTS | $5,000 |
| HEARTSPRING | $4,000 |
| WICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| SUNLIGHT CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $3,000 |
| CEREBRAL PALSY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CHILDREN 1ST | $2,500 |
| EMPOWERED (YOUTH ENTREPRENEURS OF KANSAS) | $2,500 |
| UJUMP INC | $2,000 |
| KANSAS FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| WICHITA CANCER FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| THE LORD'S DINER | $2,000 |
| HUMANKIND MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| WICHITA SEDGWICK COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 +64% since the first grant, against +52% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- TWTHE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME6× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +43%
- MAMARK ARTS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +71%
- HIHEARTSPRING INC6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- NMNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $2k
- SRSOUTH ROCK CHRISTIAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $100
- TCTabor Collegegraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100 · revenue +52%
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.
Wichita's littlest heroes (wlh) exists to provide hope, help, and happiness to families of children ages 0-18 in the kansas area who are battling life-threatening medical conditions. wlh strives to accomplish this be being a physical and…
The kansas humane society is a community resource for pets and people, dedicated to enhancing the welfare of all companion animals.
We exist to inspire all students to be the best versions of themselves through a transformative education grounded in academic excellence within our inclusive community.
Wichita area sexual assault center works with individuals and communities through comprehensive services and education to create a culture of intolerance for sexual violence and an atmosphere of healing for those impacted by it.
To drive economic growth and community advancement in the wichita region.
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
At wichita habitat for humanity, we believe everyone deserves the strength, stability, and independence that comes with a safe, affordable home. we partner with hardworking individuals and families in our community, empowering them to…
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
The mission of Wichita Christian School is to provide a quality education in a Christian environment that inspires hearts, minds, and souls for successful living.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
To protect and preserve lands of natural, ecological, scenic, historic, agricultural, or recreational significance in kansas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wichita Public Library Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ujump Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 30 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.
- Who funds HUNTER HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds MARK ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUNLIGHT CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANKIND MINISTRIES WICHITA INC ↗
- Who funds UJUMP INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Entrepreneurs Inc ↗
- Who funds WICHITA-SEDGWICK COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds We Treat Kids Right ↗
- Who funds KANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE ↗
- Who funds WICHITA ANIMAL ACTION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds WICHITA CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEDGWICK COUNTY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Tabor College ↗
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: 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
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 The Barton 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.