· 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Piedmont Education Endowment Foundation | $26,700 |
| Alameda Co. Community Food Bank | $15,000 |
| The Oakland Public Education Fund | $5,000 |
| Oakland Boys and Girls Club | $5,000 |
| The Center | $5,000 |
| National Woman's Law Center | $5,000 |
| World Central Kitchen | $4,000 |
| Piedmont Unified School | $3,021 |
| The Wilderness Society | $3,000 |
| Brown Girls Do Ballet | $2,000 |
| Union of Concerned Scientists | $2,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Foundation of America | $2,000 |
| Facing History and Ourselves | $2,000 |
| African Community Center | $2,000 |
| The Trevor Project | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Birches Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
41 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 11 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $18k · revenue +219%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC5× · 2019–2024 · $14k · revenue +43%- THTHOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER3× · 2021–2023 · $7k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- KSKellogg School of Managementone grant, 2019 · $25k
- SOSAVE OUR YOUTH SOYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +41%
- PEPIEDMONT EDUCATION ENDOWMENT FUNDone grant, 2021 · $11k
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Develops legal and technical infrastructure for digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.
How this is measured
74 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. 74 of the 140 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 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR YOUTH SOY ↗
- Who funds THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Family Paths Inc ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds PROJECT WORTHMORE ↗
- Who funds San Juan Citizens Alliance ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL HERITAGE IMAGING ↗
- Who funds INSIDE OUT YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN WILD ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
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
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.
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