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Birtcher Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $195k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEFTHORNSTON EDUCATION FUND | $50,000 |
| AFRICA NEW DAY | $50,000 |
| OPERATION MOBILIZATION | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| TEFTHORNSTON EDUCATION FUND | $25,000 |
| LIFE CHILD AFRICA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MILELE INT'L | $22,049 |
| TEAM EXPANSION | $22,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,500 |
| HOPE FOR HAITI'S CHILDREN | $17,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 25% of Birtcher Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 71% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 31% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $173k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TMThe Master's Academy International Inc5× · 2017–2024 · $199k · revenue +148%
- TETHORNSTON EDUCATIONAL FUND4× · 2018–2023 · $150k · revenue +1%
- RBReaching Beyond Ourselves4× · 2018–2021 · $118k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- NDNew Dawn Communities Incone grant, 2019 · $70k · revenue -23%
- WCWORLD CHRISTIAN OUTREACH INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $70k · revenue +106%
- GMGLOBAL MISSIONone grant, 2021 · $31k · revenue -33%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Ministry
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
To teach the bible to pastors and church leaders in africa and asia, while funding food for orphaned and abandonded children
Training pastors in third world countries
Christian Training and Education
Our mission is proclaiming the message of salvation through the saving power of the Holy Spirit to reach the unreached by evangelizing; motivating, mobilizing and organizing the body of Christ.
Kingdom Investment works among the poor and oppressed to bear witness to the good news of the Kingdom of God that results in holistic transformation through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Training, educating, and mobilizing the body of christ to fulfill the mandate of jesus christ to go and make disciples of all nations by establishing bible schools and networks of churches, and providing administrative and logistical…
Empowering Lives International (ELI) ignites world changers. We equip families and orphans to crush poverty, embrace Christ, and share their transformation with others through their God-honoring income, their deepening relationship with…
To seek to proclaim the name of Jesus Christ, to promote Christian principles and the spiritual and physical well being of the world. Major programs include: Orphan ministries, including building orphanages, feeding and educating children,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Alive Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is International Literacy and Development. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds The Master's Academy International Inc ↗
- Who funds THORNSTON EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Africa New Day Inc ↗
- Who funds Reaching Beyond Ourselves ↗
- Who funds New Dawn Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CHRISTIAN OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds Pioneer Bible Translators ↗
- Who funds Life Child Africa Foundation ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL MISSION ↗
- Who funds AFRICA NEW LIFE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds RAPHA HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds MILELE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND ↗
- Who funds NILE ORPHAN CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Epic International Corporation ↗
- Who funds International Literacy and Development ↗
- Who funds THE MAILBOX CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE ALIVE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CROSSING BOUNDARIES INC ↗
- Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
- Who funds Haiti Empowered Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Birtcher Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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