New Hampshire · Private foundation
Birdseye 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.
- $200k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 23
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Birdseye Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $200k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $190k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $190k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $190k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $190k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $190k | 5% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $146k | 44% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $66k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Valley Waldorf School | $272,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Vermont Foodbank | $172,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Upper Valley Haven | $172,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Upper Valley Land Trust Inc | $85,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Clara Martin Center Inc | $65,500 | 8 | 0% |
| The Trust for Public Land | $60,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Second Wind Foundation | $58,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Children's Literacy Foundation | $40,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Young Writers Project Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Pathways Vermont Inc | $33,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Valley Waldorf School | $272,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Vermont Foodbank | $172,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Upper Valley Haven | $172,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Upper Valley Land Trust Inc | $85,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Clara Martin Center Inc | $65,500 | 8 | 0% |
| The Trust for Public Land | $60,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Second Wind Foundation | $58,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Children's Literacy Foundation | $40,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Young Writers Project Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Pathways Vermont Inc | $33,000 | 3 | 0% |
| LISTEN Lebanon in Service to Each Neighbor | $32,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Willing Hands Enterprises Inc | $32,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Vermont Land Trust Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Woodstock Area Mountain Bike Association | $10,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Upper Valley Trails Alliance | $10,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Circus Barn Inc | $7,000 | 7 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($170k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Birdseye 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: The Vermont Community Foundation · The Couch Family Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Emily Landecker Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · Mascoma Bank Foundation · Flora R and Isidor M Stettenheim Foundation Inc · Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · McCollom Family Foundation · Htc Cottee Wurster Family Foundation 96010000
How this is measured
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About Birdseye Foundation
- How much does Birdseye Foundation give?
- Birdseye Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $200,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Birdseye Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Environment (17%), Food & Nutrition (16%).
- Who are Birdseye Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Upper Valley Waldorf School ($273k), Vermont Foodbank ($173k), Upper Valley Haven ($173k).
- Does Birdseye Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Birdseye 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 Birdseye Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, The Couch Family Foundation, Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc.
- Where is Birdseye Foundation based?
- Birdseye Foundation is based in NH.
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