· Private foundation
Birches 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Friends Service Committee | $50,000 |
| Amnesty International | $20,200 |
| Brennan Center for Justice | $20,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $20,000 |
| International Rescue Committee | $15,000 |
| Union of Concerned Scientists | $15,000 |
| Brady Center | $15,000 |
| UNICEF USA | $10,000 |
| American Civil Liberties Union | $10,000 |
| Hudson River Sloop Clearwater | $5,000 |
| Sierra Club | $5,000 |
| Giffords Law Center | $5,000 |
| Karuna Center | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +1% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +13%
GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE4× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +1%- MIMUSIC IN COMMON INC2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE2× · 2024–2025 · $50k
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue 0%
WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INCgraduated2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +27%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
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How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds MUSIC IN COMMON INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Birches Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Birches Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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