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Birney Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$12k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$7,777
Organizations funded a year
2 to 8
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$355k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Birney Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23
InternationalEducationHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$12k33%
FY20232$3k0%
FY20224$198k25%
FY20212$63k50%
FY20208$80k88%
FY20197$169kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$349kSocial Science$79kHealth$64kEducation$10kRecreation & Sports$10kEnvironment$8kPublic Benefit$4kInternational$600Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IN
NJ
CA
WV
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Grounds for Sculpture Inc$153,05022%
Jaipur Foot Inc$60,794111%
Stafford Band Booster Club$10,0001n/a
Wu Martial Arts Association$9,5005n/a
Longoria-Hosmer Foundation$7,7771n/a
Ray of Hope Foundation Inc$3,65048%
International Leadership Foundation$3,50010%
Texas Dragon Boat Association$1,00011%
Onehopechildren Inc$5001n/a
Pakistan Literacy Fund$20010%
Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of Birney Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Grounds for Sculpture Inc$153,05022%
Jaipur Foot Inc$60,794111%
Stafford Band Booster Club$10,0001n/a
Wu Martial Arts Association$9,5005n/a
Longoria-Hosmer Foundation$7,7771n/a
Ray of Hope Foundation Inc$3,65048%
International Leadership Foundation$3,50010%
Texas Dragon Boat Association$1,00011%
Onehopechildren Inc$5001n/a
Pakistan Literacy Fund$20010%
International House$10010%
Millburn Short Hills Historical Society$1001n/a
Teaching Matters Inc$10010%
Feed a Billion Corporation$10010%
National Police Association Inc$1010%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($274k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Birney Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGrounds for Sculpture Inc: $153,050 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetJaipur Foot Inc: $60,794 over 1y, 11% of budgetRay of Hope Foundation Inc: $3,650 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetInternational Leadership Foundation: $3,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTexas Dragon Boat Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPakistan Literacy Fund: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational House: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeaching Matters Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeed a Billion Corporation: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Police Association Inc: $10 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Birney Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Birney Family Foundation 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.

About Birney Family Foundation

How much does Birney Family Foundation give?
Birney Family Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $11,777 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Birney Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (67%), Social Science (15%), Health (12%).
Who are Birney Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Grounds for Sculpture Inc ($153k), Jaipur Foot Inc ($61k), Stafford Band Booster Club ($10k).
Does Birney Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Birney Family 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 Birney Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Birney Family Foundation based?
Birney Family Foundation is based in DE.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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