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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 46-4475109

Rita Barbour Kern Foundation

A private foundation in Toledo, OH. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 11 grants and $1.3 million paid in grants.

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Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Preselected only

The return checks the box saying the foundation gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2025

    $1,326,679

    Grants listed
    11
    Assets, end of year
    $20,967,541

  • Tax year 2024

    $1,285,000

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $19,488,247

  • Tax year 2023

    $1,130,000

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $19,674,792

  • Tax year 2022

    $1,159,000

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $20,060,200

  • Tax year 2021

    $1,196,085

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $20,684,638

  • Tax year 2020

    $986,324

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $20,982,046

  • Tax year 2019

    $289,000

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $4,162,087

  • Tax year 2018

    $200,000

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $4,375,743

Grants paid in 2025

11 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Toledo Alliance for the PerformingToledo, OH

    Gift to qualified charitable organization pursuant to the terms of the Foundation.

    $288,190
  2. Toledo Alliance for the PerformingToledo, OH

    Gift to qualified chariable organzized pursuant to the terms of the Foundation.

    $204,426
  3. Toledo Museum of ArtToledo, OH

    Gift to qualified charitable organization pursuant to the terms of the Foundation

    $183,579
  4. Toledo Museum of ArtToledo, OH

    Gift to qualified charitable organizatio pursuant to the terms of the Foundation.

    $168,686
  5. Toledo Museum of ArtToledo, OH

    Gift to qualified charitable organization pursuant to the terms of the Foundation

    $120,612
  6. Toledo Alliance for the PerformingToledo, OH

    Gift to qualified charitable organization pursuant to the terms of the Foundation.

    $86,953
  7. Toledo Alliance for the PerformingToledo, OH

    Gifts to qualifed charitable organization pursuant to the terms of the Foundation.

    $86,521
  8. Dorset Public LibraryDorset, VT

    Gift to qualified charitable organization pursuant to the terms of the Foundation.

    $55,000
  9. Toledo Museum of ArtToledo, OH

    Gift to qualified charitable organization pursuant to the Foundation.

    $50,346
  10. Toledo Museum of ArtToledo, OH

    Gift to qualifed charitable organization pursuant to the terms of the Foundation

    $49,925
  11. Toledo Museum of ArtToledo, OH

    Gift to qualified charitable organization pursuant to the terms of the Foundation

    $32,441

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Arts and culture6 grants $605,589100% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. Ohio10 grants $1,271,679
  2. Vermont1 grant $55,000

Officers, directors and trustees

5 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Nan L WallaceTrustee Hours 0.5Pay $5,000
  • Roger BerkowitzTrustee Hours 1.5Pay $7,500
  • David C KrockTrustee Hours 2Pay $7,500
  • Nancy E HibbertTrustee Hours 1Pay $5,000
  • Carolyn M PutneyTrustee Hours 0.5Pay $5,000

The return

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