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The Charles Barkley Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$1.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Charles Barkley Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $320k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving18$1.7M44%
FY20238$720k50%
FY20228$743k13%
FY202113$1.5M62%
FY20206$695k33%
FY20193$300k0%
FY20186$600k0%
FY20177$602kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$6.2MPhilanthropy$250kHuman Services$221kFood & Nutrition$100kArts & Culture$21kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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MI
NY
NJ
CA
AZ
MS
AL
GA
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Clark Atlanta University Inc$900,00080%
Morehouse College$700,00060%
Miles College Inc$500,00050%
Tuskegee University$400,00040%
Auburn University Foundation$300,00020%
Bethune-Cookman University$200,00020%
Jackson State University$200,0002n/a
Education Reform Now Inc$100,00012%
Montana Food Bank Network Inc$100,00010%
St Marys Academy$100,0001n/a
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All grantees of The Charles Barkley Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Clark Atlanta University Inc$900,00080%
Morehouse College$700,00060%
Miles College Inc$500,00050%
Tuskegee University$400,00040%
Auburn University Foundation$300,00020%
Bethune-Cookman University$200,00020%
Jackson State University$200,0002n/a
Education Reform Now Inc$100,00012%
Montana Food Bank Network Inc$100,00010%
St Marys Academy$100,0001n/a
Folds of Honor Alabama Chapter$100,000168%
Helping Hands for Single Moms$100,00017%
Vidal Access Inc$80,000218%
Street Grace Inc$20,00011%
Music Will Inc$18,37510%
Spelman College$3,50010%
Allied Media Projects Inc$2,30010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Charles Barkley Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetClark Atlanta University Inc: $900,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMorehouse College: $700,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMiles College Inc: $500,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTuskegee University: $400,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAuburn University Foundation: $300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBethune-Cookman University: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEducation Reform Now Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMontana Food Bank Network Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFolds of Honor Alabama Chapter: $100,000 over 1y, 68% of budgetHelping Hands for Single Moms: $100,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetVidal Access Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetStreet Grace Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMusic Will Inc: $18,375 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSpelman College: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAllied Media Projects Inc: $2,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

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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.

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How do I get to The Charles Barkley Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Charles Barkley Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Charles Barkley Foundation Inc

How much does The Charles Barkley Foundation Inc give?
The Charles Barkley Foundation Inc reported 18 grants totaling $1,710,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Charles Barkley Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (91%), Philanthropy (4%), Human Services (3%).
Who are The Charles Barkley Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Clark Atlanta University Inc ($900k), Morehouse College ($700k), Miles College Inc ($500k).
Does The Charles Barkley Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Charles Barkley Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Charles Barkley Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Charles Barkley Foundation Inc based?
The Charles Barkley Foundation Inc is based in AL.

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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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