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The Charles and Wanda Barnett Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Charles and Wanda Barnett Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$28k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$63kPhilanthropy$35kHealth$27kHuman Services$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kHousing & Shelter$5kEducation$3k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$229k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAJUN NAVY RELIEF$5,000
VICTORY HEALTH PARTNERS$5,000
LIGHT FOR THE LIVING$5,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE INTERNATIONAL$5,000
MISSION OF HOPE$2,000
HOME OF GRACE$2,000
WAYNE DORSETT MINISTRIES$2,000
JOE MCDONALD MINISTRIES$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%KIDZ KONNECT 4 JESUS: $1k → 8%CAJUN NAVY RELIEF: $5k → 16%LIGHT OF THE VILLAGES: $10k → 12%SAV-A-LIFE OF MOBILE INC: $2k → 19%SHEPHERD'S HAVEN OF REST MINISTRIES: $5k → 17%SAMARITAN'S PURSE INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 21%LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE: $6k → 12%SAV-A-LIFE OF MOBILE INC: $1k → 19%SHEPHERD'S HAVEN OF REST MINISTRIES: $5k → 17%LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE: $2k → 12%CAMP WHISPERING PINES: $4k → 19%SHEPHERD'S HAVEN OF REST MINISTRIES: $5k → 17%CARRIAGE HOUSE REPOSE & RESTORE INC: $1k → 19%THE PASCO HOME: $5k → 19%VICTORY HEALTH PARTNERS: $5k → 19%VICTORY HEALTH PARTNERS: $4k → 19%VICTORY HEALTH PARTNERS: $2k → 19%VICTORY HEALTH PARTNERS: $2k → 19%LUKE 418: $26k → 19%LUKE 418 FELLOWSHIP: $10k → 19%LIGHT FOR THE LIVING: $5k → 19%WAYNE DORSETT MINISTRIES: $3k → 19%HOME OF GRACE: $3k → 19%LIGHT FOR THE LIVING: $3k → 19%HOME OF GRACE: $2k → 19%WAYNE DORSETT MINISTRIES: $2k → 19%HOME OF GRACE FOR WOMEN INC: $2k → 19%COTTAGE HILL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $2k → 19%HOME OF GRACE FOR WOMEN INC: $2k → 19%COTTAGE HILL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $1k → 19%MISSION OF HOPE: $3k → 19%MISSION OF HOPE: $2k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$92k · 13 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -29% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
8

Total granted

$92k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-29%

Still filing today

62%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’22’24’25
ReligionHealthPublic Safety & DisasterCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • VH
    Victory Health Partners Inc
    4× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +18%
  • WD
    Wayne Dorsett Ministries Inc
    4× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +4%
  • TL
    THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION
    2× · 2018–2024 · $8k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • L4
    LUKE 418
    one grant, 2024 · $26k
  • L4
    LUKE 418 FELLOWSHIP
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • LO
    LIGHT OF THE VILLAGES
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
House of Refuge Inc

Christ centered residential ministry primarily helping african american men overcome their life controlling addictions so they can successfully re enter society as productive citizens

Religion
2
Dale County Rescue Mission

The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.

Human Services
3
Refuge for Prodigals International Bible Ministries Inc
Religion
4
The Remnant House

The remnant house, located in lee county, mississippi provides men and women with a faith-based christian transitional living home and recovery program. our christ-centered one year transitional living recovery program allows an individual…

Health
5
House of Refuge Faith Based
Human Services
6
Remnant Ministries Inc

Restore inmates and those addicted back in to society

Religion
7
Lifehouse Ministries Inc
Housing & Shelter
8
Re-Entry Ministry Inc

Rescue renew and restore substance addicted women to independent living through Christian faith-based activities and program.

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9
House of Hope

Assisting and housing females in recovery

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10
Hope for Women Llc

Hope For Women, LLC, will operate a Christian based, charitable treatment center for recovering female addicts in Walker County, Alabama that provides a place for shelter and recovery to women suffering from alcohol and drug addiction and…

Human Services
11
Boaz House

Provide room and board to women struggling with addiction at 4327 4th Street. Also Provide general rehabilitation and financial aide, along with job placement and career training.

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12
Recovery Ministries Inc
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission of Hope Ministries Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wayne Dorsett Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LUKE 418: $26,000 · OtherLUKE 418LUKE 418 FELLOWSHIP: $10,000 · OtherLUKE 418 FELLOWSHIPLIGHT OF THE VILLAGES: $10,000 · OtherLIGHT OF THE VILLAGESLIGHT FOR THE LIVING: $8,000 · OtherLIGHT FOR THE LIVINGHOME OF GRACE: $5,000 · OtherHOME OF GRACEJOE MCDONALD MINISTRIES: $5,000 · OtherJOE MCDONALD MINISTRIESSAMARITAN'S PURSE INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE INTERNATIONALIndividual grant recipient: $4,000 · OtherCOTTAGE HILL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $2,750 · Other+1 more: $2,000 · OtherSHEPHERDS' HAVEN OF REST MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 · ReligionSHEPHERDS' HAVEN OF REST M…Wayne Dorsett Ministries Inc: $9,000 · ReligionWayne Dorsett Ministries I…THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION: $8,000 · ReligionTHE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A…JOE MCDONALD MINISTRY INC: $4,000 · ReligionJOE MCDONALD MINISTRY INC+2 more: $2,000 · ReligionVictory Health Partners Inc: $13,000 · HealthVictory Health Partn…MISSION OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $7,000 · HealthMISSION OF HOPE MINI…THE PASCO HOME INC: $5,000 · HealthTHE PASCO HOME INCHome of Grace For Women Inc: $4,000 · HealthHome of Grace For Wo…RANSOM MINISTRIES INC: $8,000 · Public Safety & DisasterRANSOM MI…THE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC: $5,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE CAJUN…Womens Resource Center Inc: $3,200 · Civil Rights
Other$77,750Religion$38,000Health$29,000Public Safety & Disaster$13,000Civil Rights$3,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHEPHERDS' HAVEN OF REST MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetVictory Health Partners Inc: $13,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWayne Dorsett Ministries Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTHE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION: $8,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRANSOM MINISTRIES INC: $8,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMISSION OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PASCO HOME INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWomens Resource Center Inc: $3,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCarriage House Repose & Restore: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetALL 4 JESUS BELIZE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Williams Charitable F…Mapp Family FoundationShell USA Company Fou…Natl Christian Charit…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Williams Charitable FoundationAL17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Williams Charitable Foundation · Mapp Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Charles and Wanda Barnett Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charles and Wanda Barnett Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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