Harry E and Olive Barth Charitable Trust
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 556179918
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2025
- Location
- Wheeling, WV, USA
- Phone
- 3042349400
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Private Grantmaking Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $658,181
- Expenses
- $491,332
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Private Grantmaking Foundations
What it reported funding in 2025
The foundation reported 12 grants totaling $347,108. The stated grant purposes included general support - operating, general support, and industrial washer and, plus 9 other reported purposes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 100% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 84% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
- Includes asset-sale income: Asset-sale income is shown separately from recurring resources when classifying the revenue model.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filed numbers largely add up. The available information about grant readiness automatic revocation leaves an important question unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 100
- Cost Efficiency: 71
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 100
- Endowment Health: 70
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 100%; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 70.6%; rating input score 71; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 19 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Pass
- Grants to organizations: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 9; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 20.48; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Payout: At least 100% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 70th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 14 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.