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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 FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$355k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LONGORIA-HOSMER FOUNDATION$7,777
WU MARTIAL ARTS ASSOCIATION$2,000
RAY OF HOPE FOUNDATION$2,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

US giving: 48% of grant dollars ($251k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 52% that went abroad ($274k) is mapped below.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JAIPUR FOOT INC: $61k → 6%TEACHING MATTERS INC: $100 → 17%LONGORIA-HOSMER FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%WU MARTIAL ARTS ASSOCIATION: $2k → 16%INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $4k → 14%NATIONAL POLICE ASSOCIATION INC: $10 → 16%FEED A BILLION NFP CORPORATION: $100 → 14%RAY OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $2k → 4%GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC: $103k → 11%ONEHOPECHILDREN INC: $500 → 14%MILLBURN SHORT HILLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $100 → 16%INTERNATIONAL HOUSE: $100 → 17%WU MARTIAL ARTS ASSOCIATION: $2k → 16%RAY OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $1k → 4%GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC: $50k → 11%WU MARTIAL ARTS ASSOCIATION: $2k → 16%RAY OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $400 → 4%GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC: $50 → 11%WU MARTIAL ARTS ASSOCIATION: $2k → 16%RAY OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $250 → 4%WU MARTIAL ARTS ASSOCIATION: $2k → 16%TEXAS DRAGON BOAT ASSOCIATION: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IN
NJ
CA
WV
DC
TX

Beyond the US: 52% of all-years giving ($274k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$274k · 3 grants
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$440k · 4 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +340% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
12

Total granted

$440k
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+340%
+7%

Still filing today

50%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationHealthArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TL
    THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIEN
    2× · 2020–2022 · $274k
  • GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $153k · revenue +340%
  • WM
    WU MARTIAL ARTS ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $10k

Funded once

  • JF
    JAIPUR FOOT INC
    one grant, 2021 · $61k · revenue +7%
  • SB
    STAFFORD BAND BOOSTER CLUB
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • IL
    INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +20%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Institute of Asian Scholars

naisA Global is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization dedicated to helping talented young Asian professionals unlock their potential and become great leaders. It is the only non-profit of its kind to provide a global platform to…

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2
Akshaya Patra Foundation (Usa)

The mission of the foundation is to simultaneously address childhood hunger and malnutrition and to promote education for children throughout india.

Food & Nutrition
3
Ravi and Naina Patel Foundation
Philanthropy
4
The International Research Foundation for English Language Education

To improve English language education worldwide

Education
5
India Literacy Project

To empower every individual we serve with functional literacy and an understanding of their basic rights and responsibilities

International
6
The Asia Foundation

The asia foundation (taf) is an international nonprofit organization working to solve the toughest social and economic challenges in asia and the pacific. (continued on schedule o)

International
7
The International Foundation
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8
India Awareness Foundation Inc

Public education

Education
9
The Bridge to Asia Foundation

International Charity for higher education in Asia.

International
10
The American India Foundation

The american india foundation(aif) is a nonprofit american development organization that is devoted to accelerating social and economic change in india.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Planetread

Scale PlanetReads Same Language Subtitling SLS innovation on mainstream entertainment content on TV and streaming in all languages for three purposes: 1 reading literacy 2 media access and 3 language learning driven by a strategy for…

Education
12
India Foundation

Healthcare and education for the needy

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International House; the most unlike its peers is Ray of Hope Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIEN: $273,935 · OtherTHE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIEN+8 more: $29,227 · Other+8 moreGROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC: $153,050 · Arts & CultureGROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INCJAIPUR FOOT INC: $60,794 · InternationalJAIPUR FOOT I…+2 more: $300 · InternationalRAY OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $3,650 · HealthINTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Public BenefitTEACHING MATTERS INC: $100 · EducationNATIONAL POLICE ASSOCIATION INC: $10 · Education
Other$303,162Arts & Culture$153,050International$61,094Health$3,650Public Benefit$3,500Education$110

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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 E…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Birney Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Birney Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Grounds for Sculpture Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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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.

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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