California · 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.
- $105k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 35
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $95k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $26,700
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 56
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Birches Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 35 | $95k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $85k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $138k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $122k | 95% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $81k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Save Our Youth Soy | $20,000 | 1 | 4% |
| The Oakland Public Education Fund | $19,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Alameda Health System Foundation | $18,000 | 2 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $14,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $13,725 | 5 | 0% |
| Thomas House Temporary Shelter | $6,885 | 3 | 0% |
| Family Paths Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $5,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Facing History & Ourselves Inc | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 73 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 62 recipients with no EIN on record ($341k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Birches Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The William Jeff and Jennifer Gross Family Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · The Colorado Trust · Western Union Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc
How this is measured
About Birches Foundation
- How much does Birches Foundation give?
- Birches Foundation reported 35 itemized grants totaling $95,051, out of $105,401 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 56 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Birches Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (32%), Education (14%), Religion (11%).
- Who are Birches Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Save Our Youth Soy ($20k), The Oakland Public Education Fund ($20k), Alameda Health System Foundation ($18k).
- Does Birches Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Birches Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Birches Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Orange County Community Foundation, The Denver Foundation.
- Where is Birches Foundation based?
- Birches Foundation is based in CA.
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