· Private foundation
Birtcher Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 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 25% of Birtcher Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 71% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 31%.
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 +49% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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,…
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 39 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 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 RAPHA HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICA NEW LIFE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Birtcher Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Birtcher Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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