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Billy J Birdwell and Esme J Birdwell Family 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.

$90k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$235kFood & Nutrition$164kHealth$111kYouth Development$75kInternational$70kReligion$39kArts & Culture$23kCrime & Legal$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$885k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Make a Wish Foundaiton San Diego$20,000
Warrior Foundation Freedom Station$20,000
San Diego Food Bank$15,000
Shriner Hospital for Children$10,000
Planned Parenthood of the Pacific S$10,000
Jewish Family Services$5,000
Meals on Wheels$5,000
Internation Clown Hall of Fame$2,500
Your Heart on Art$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%San Diego Oasis: $6k → 11%Warrior Foundation Freedom Station: $23k → 11%Warrior Foundation Freedom Station: $20k → 11%Warrior Foundation Freedom Station: $20k → 11%Warrior Foundation Freedom Station: $15k → 11%Warrior Foundation Freedom Station: $10k → 11%Warrior Foundation Freedom Station: $10k → 11%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.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$669k · 14 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
7

Total granted

$669k
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-12%
+182%

Still filing today

50%
29%

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
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther

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

  • MO
    Meals on Wheels
    6× · 2017–2025 · $105k
  • WF
    WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION
    6× · 2019–2025 · $98k · revenue -10%
  • MA
    Make a Wish Foundaiton San Diego
    4× · 2021–2025 · $95k

Funded once

  • TS
    TEMPLE SOLEL OF NORTHERN SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $28k
  • SF
    SEANY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -99%
  • CA
    CHABAD AT LA COSTA
    one grant, 2021 · $11k

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
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
2
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
3
Planned Parenthood California Central Coast

To improve our communities' sexual and reproductive health outcomes through health care, education, and advocacy.

Health
4
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
5
Planned Parenthoodorange and San Bernardino Counties Inc

Planned parenthood orange and san bernardino counties provides an exceptional health care experience for every patient, protects and promotes the fundamental right of all individuals to make their own personal health decisions, and…

Health
6
Policy & Innovation Center

The policy & innovation center's (pic) mission is to unlock the region's potential by cultivating and building partnerships. our niche is to address intractable issues that can only be solved with cross-sector, multi-jurisdictional…

Philanthropy
7
United Way of San Diego County

To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.

Philanthropy
8
Social Advocates for Youth San Diego Inc

To partner with youth, families, adults and communities to reach their full potential and is achieved through comprehensive and integrated programming in the areas of child and youth development; youth, adult and family wellness and…

Human Services
9
Santa Fe Community Foundation

The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…

Philanthropy
10
Jewish Family Service of San Diego

Jewish family service is a client-centered, impact-driven organization working to build a stronger, healthier, more resilient san diego.

Human Services
11
San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program Inc

The mission of san diego volunteer lawyer program, inc. is to provide equal access to the justice system by serving as a bridge between indigent and other disadvantaged people in san diego county and the volunteer lawyers who are willing…

Social Science
12
Foundation for Women's Cancer

To support and empower all affected by gynecologic cancers through education, research, and public awareness.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Sunbird Initiative. 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

9 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. 9 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Meals on Wheels — $105,000 · OtherMeals on WheelsMake a Wish Foundaiton San Diego — $95,000 · OtherMake a Wish Foundaiton San DiegoFoundation for the Children of the — $70,000 · OtherFoundation for the Children of theShriner Hospital for Children — $41,020 · OtherShriner Hospital for ChildrenJewish Family Services — $36,000 · OtherJewish Family ServicesTEMPLE SOLEL OF NORTHERN SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC — $28,029 · OtherTEMPLE SOLEL OF NORTHERN SAN DIEGO COUNTY INCYOUR HEART ON ART — $14,500 · Other+5 more — $31,400 · Other+5 moreWARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION — $97,500 · Human ServicesWARRIOR FOUNDAT…SAN DIEGO OASIS — $6,000 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO OASISSunbird Initiative — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentSunbird Ini…GIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON TH…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST — $45,000 · HealthPLANNED PA…SEANY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthSEANY FOUN…JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $59,000 · Food & NutritionVOICES FOR CHILDREN — $15,000 · Civil RightsMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $8,000 · Philanthropy
Other$420,949Human Services$103,500Youth Development$75,000Health$70,000Food & Nutrition$59,000Civil Rights$15,000Philanthropy$8,000

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 budgetWARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION — $97,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $59,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSunbird Initiative — $50,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST — $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSEANY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO OASIS — $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION
  • Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK
  • Who funds Sunbird Initiative
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST
  • Who funds SEANY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO OASIS

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.

Jewish Community Foundation of San DiegoCA15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Leichtag Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Billy J Birdwell and Esme J Birdwell Family Foundation Inc 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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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    5report 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, 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.

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    How do I get to Billy J Birdwell and Esme J Birdwell Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Billy J Birdwell and Esme J Birdwell Family 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.

    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 21 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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