Michigan · Private foundation
Birtwistle Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $142k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Birtwistle Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 | 26 | $142k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $120k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $114k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $104k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $97k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $98k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $85k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $108k | 15% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mason County Historical Society | $205,500 | 8 | 13% |
| Methodist Children's Home Society | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Ludington State Park | $20,000 | 1 | 8% |
| United Way of Mason County | $15,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Salvation Army | $14,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Ludington Area Arts Council | $13,500 | 9 | 1% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| West Shore Community College Foundation | $11,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Grace Place for Children and Families Inc | $10,500 | 8 | 0% |
| American Diabetes Association | $10,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($568k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Birtwistle Family 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: Community Foundation for Muskegon County · Pennies From Heaven Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Birtwistle Family Foundation
- How much does Birtwistle Family Foundation give?
- Birtwistle Family Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $142,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Birtwistle Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Education (30%), Philanthropy (13%).
- Who are Birtwistle Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mason County Historical Society ($206k), Methodist Children's Home Society ($30k), Friends of Ludington State Park ($20k).
- Does Birtwistle Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Birtwistle Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Birtwistle Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Muskegon County, Pennies From Heaven Foundation, Consumers Energy Foundation.
- Where is Birtwistle Family Foundation based?
- Birtwistle Family Foundation is based in MI.
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