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Willard E Bartel 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.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$130kReligion$91kArts & Culture$26kHealth$18kHousing & Shelter$17kPhilanthropy$12kYouth Development$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
$6,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$413k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS$12,000
THE ST CONSTANTINE SCHOOL$11,400
THE ST CONSTANTINE SCHOOL$6,000
MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP$6,000
POTOMAC SCHOOL DISTRICT$6,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
NEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION$6,000
POTOMAC VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT$3,600
THE ST CONSTANTINE SCHOOL$3,000
ST ANDREW'S ACADEMY$450
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION: $6k → 12%EL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION: $6k → 12%EL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION: $3k → 12%EL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$326k · 17 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +102% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
12

Total granted

$326k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+102%
+38%

Still filing today

35%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationAnimalsHuman ServicesReligionOther

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

  • SL
    SAN LUIS OBISPO CLASSICAL ACADEMY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $36k · revenue +363%
  • EC
    EL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $17k · revenue +23%
  • SA
    ST ANDREWS ACADEMY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $16k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • CP
    CONVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PASO
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • CV
    CHINO VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • MS
    Morning Star Youth Ranch Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -13%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Fresno Christian Schools

Equip young people for life and service for jesus christ through biblical foundations, christ-like character development, and academic preparation in partnership with the home and local church.

Education
2
Eastside Christian School

Eastside christian school's mission is educating children in the christ inspired, joyful pursuit of excellence. our purpose is to operate a high quality christian private school in order to help students grow and mature in christian faith,…

Education
3
Turlock Christian Schools Inc

Tcs is an independent christian school that prepares young men and women for college and life by providing challenging opportunities to excel in the vital areas of faith, virtue and knowledge.

4
San Antonio Christian School

Partner with families to provide students a christ-centered education while fostering a life of faith and service. the school desires to associate with like-minded teachers, administrators, staff, parents, and students to communicate the…

5
Woodcrest Christian School System

To glorify god by pursuing excellence in christ-centered academics.

Education
6
Contra Costa Christian Schools Association

To provide christian education to students from preschool through high school

Education
7
California Crosspoint High School

Establishing, maintaining, and supporting a Christian boarding and day school, including related ministries.

Education
8
Lakeland Christian Academy Association Inc

The organization exists to provide a biblically centered educational environment so that its students may be equipped to become christ honoring members of their families, churches, and communities.

Education
9
Christian Heritage School of Longview

To provide excellence in classical christ-centered education, working together with the students' homes, in order to develop within each student the ability to reason biblically while encouraging a desire to savor god and to serve both god…

Education
10
Southwestern Christian College

Its purpose is to offer a holistic educational program that will motivate the student to value and achieve academi excellence within the context of commitment to moral and spiritual values.

Education
11
Brookes Bible College

To provide bible training at the college level

Religion
12
Landmark Christian School

Landmark christian school partners with christian families by equipping college-bound students to embrace a christ-centered worldview, grow as servant leaders, and steward god's unique purpose for their lives.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christ Classical School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Morning Star Youth Ranch 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 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ST CONSTANTINE SCHOOL — $54,975 · OtherTHE ST CONSTANTINE SCHOOLWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC — $51,200 · OtherWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INCIndividual grant recipient — $32,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP — $29,450 · OtherMISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIPTHE NAVIGATORS — $24,550 · OtherTHE NAVIGATORSTREE OF LIFE — $17,700 · OtherTREE OF LIFEPOTOMAC SCHOOL DISTRICT — $12,000 · Other+13 more — $26,550 · Other+13 moreSAN LUIS OBISPO CLASSICAL ACADEMY — $36,443 · EducationSAN LUIS OBISPO CL…ST ANDREWS ACADEMY — $15,618 · EducationST ANDREWS ACADEMYCHRIST CLASSICAL SCHOOL INC — $2,400 · Education+3 more — $1,350 · EducationEL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION — $17,000 · Human ServicesThe New Horizons Foundation Inc — $12,000 · PhilanthropyCHRISTIAN ADULTHOOD INITIATIVE — $10,020 · ReligionCHRISTIAN VETERINARY MISSION — $100 · Animals
Other$248,825Education$55,811Human Services$17,000Philanthropy$12,000Religion$10,020Animals$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAN LUIS OBISPO CLASSICAL ACADEMY — $36,443 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetEL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION — $17,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetST ANDREWS ACADEMY — $15,618 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetThe New Horizons Foundation Inc — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN ADULTHOOD INITIATIVE — $10,020 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCHRIST CLASSICAL SCHOOL INC — $2,400 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBROOKSIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $1,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSERGE GLOBAL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES — $800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMONT COLLEGE — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 SAN LUIS OBISPO CLASSICAL ACADEMY
  • Who funds EL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION
  • Who funds ST ANDREWS ACADEMY
  • Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN ADULTHOOD INITIATIVE
  • Who funds CHRIST CLASSICAL SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds BROOKSIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
  • Who funds Morning Star Youth Ranch Inc
  • Who funds SERGE GLOBAL INC
  • Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES
  • Who funds EAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN VETERINARY MISSION
  • Who funds WESTMONT 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.

American Endowment FoundationOH9.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Willard E Bartel 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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