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Birtwistle Family Foundation at a glance

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Birtwistle Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$142k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$356kEducation$311kPhilanthropy$133kHuman Services$47kRecreation & Sports$46kCrime & Legal$43kYouth Development$41kHealth$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
$1,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$30,000
MASON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$30,000
FRIENDS OF LUDINGTON STATE PARK$20,000
Individual grant recipient$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,500
Individual grant recipient$6,000
LUDINGTON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT$5,000
UNITED WAY OF MASON COUNTY$2,500
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MASON COUNTY$2,000
LUDINGTON YOUTH SAILING SCHOOL INC$2,000
WEST SHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$1,500
COUNCIL OF MI FOUNDATIONS$1,500
LUDINGTON AREA FREEDOM FESTIVAL$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $2k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $2k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $250 → 14%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $2k → 10%METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $30k → 21%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $2k → 10%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $1k → 10%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $1k → 10%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $1k → 10%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $1k → 10%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $1k → 10%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

ME
WI
MI
NY
SD
VA
MD
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$847k · 44 repeat orgs$134k to everyone else

44 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
14

Total granted

$847k
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+35%

Still filing today

34%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • LA
    LUDINGTON AREA ARTS COUNCIL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +70%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2022–2024 · $12k · revenue +23%
  • GP
    GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • MC
    Methodist Children's Home Society
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +20%
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON
    one grant, 2023 · $16k
  • LC
    LAKESHORE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +35%
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
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
2
Memorial Healthcare Foundation

Through fund development, we serve our community by assisting memorial healthcare achieve its mission to promote health and provide quality compassionate healthcare in the shiawassee region.

Education
3
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
4
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc

Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.

Health
5
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
6
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
7
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
8
Michigan State Medical Society Foundation

To advance the field of health for the public good.

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9
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

—
10
Mclaren Port Huron

Mclaren healthcare, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health
11
Mymichigan Health Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…

Health
12
Central Maine Medical Center

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

26 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. 26 of the 64 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LUDINGTON MARITIME MUSEUM: $100,000 · OtherLUDINGTON MARITIME MUSEUMLUDINGTON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $47,500 · OtherLUDINGTON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICTMASON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherMASON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $37,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $22,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $22,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $22,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $22,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $22,000 · Other+32 more: $247,525 · Other+32 moreMASON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $205,500 · Arts & CultureMASON COUNTY HISTORICAL …LUDINGTON AREA ARTS COUNCIL: $13,500 · Arts & CultureLUDINGTON AREA ARTS COUN…PERE MARQUETTE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $8,500 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY…FRIENDS OF LUDINGTON STATE PARK: $20,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS O…UNITED WAY OF MASON COUNTY: $15,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…+3 more: $3,500 · PhilanthropyMethodist Children's Home Society: $30,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $12,000 · Human ServicesGRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $10,500 · Human ServicesHospice of Michigan Inc: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,250 · Human ServicesAmerican Diabetes Association: $10,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $6,200 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $1,500 · Health+2 more: $1,000 · HealthWEST SHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $11,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $6,000 · EducationLAKESHORE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$614,525Arts & Culture$227,500Philanthropy$88,500Human Services$55,750Health$19,200Education$17,000Crime & Legal$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMASON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $205,500 over 8y, 13% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMethodist Children's Home Society: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF LUDINGTON STATE PARK: $20,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MASON COUNTY: $15,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLUDINGTON AREA ARTS COUNCIL: $13,500 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetGRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $10,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLAKESHORE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLudington Youth Sailing School Inc: $9,625 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetPERE MARQUETTE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $8,500 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $6,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOME TEAM HOUSING: $6,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHospice of Michigan Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUMMER CAMP INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $500 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.

  • Who funds MASON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Methodist Children's Home Society ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF LUDINGTON STATE PARK ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF MASON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds LUDINGTON AREA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds WEST SHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds LAKESHORE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Ludington Youth Sailing School Inc ↗
  • Who funds PERE MARQUETTE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Pennies From Heaven F…Consumers Energy Foun…DTE Energy FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
Community Foundation for Muskegon CountyMI28.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Birtwistle Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Birtwistle 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 64 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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