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Briarwood Farm 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.

$55k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
75%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 15
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$2.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 75% of the organizations Briarwood Farm Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 74% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$53k60%
FY20234$19k75%
FY20224$117k25%
FY202115$95k53%
FY202011$104k64%
FY20197$134k43%
FY20187$140k29%
FY20176$623kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$649kHealth$271kEducation$119kCivil Rights$73kInternational$63kArts & Culture$43kReligion$26kAnimals$26kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kalamazoo Nature Center$527,500319%
Planned Parenthood of Michigan$187,00060%
Kazoo School$115,00036%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$70,00020%
Together Rising$68,00021%
Pathfinder International$55,50040%
First Congregational Church of Kalamazoo$21,0002n/a
World Population Balance$15,000411%
Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra$15,00021%
Colby's Crew Rescue$15,00010%
Show all 31 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($94k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Briarwood Farm Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKalamazoo Nature Center: $527,500 over 3y, 19% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Michigan: $187,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetKazoo School: $115,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTogether Rising: $68,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPathfinder International: $55,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Population Balance: $15,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetKalamazoo Symphony Orchestra: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetColby's Crew Rescue: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKalamazoo Institute of Arts: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPalestine Children's Relief Fund: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Greater Texas Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGolden Valley Bank Community: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRefugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFibershed: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKalamazoo Country Day School: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetScribble: $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSteamboat Springs Winter Sports Club Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBorder Kindness: $3,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPbs Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance for the Great Lakes: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOjai Valley Firesafe Council Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetHappy Dog Ranch Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFor Love of Water: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNo One Left Behind: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish FoundationMI17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · H P & Genevieve Connable Fund · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

Compare Briarwood Farm Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to Briarwood Farm Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Briarwood Farm 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.

About Briarwood Farm Foundation

How much does Briarwood Farm Foundation give?
Briarwood Farm Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $55,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Briarwood Farm Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (50%), Health (21%), Education (9%).
Who are Briarwood Farm Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Kalamazoo Nature Center ($528k), Planned Parenthood of Michigan ($187k), Kazoo School ($115k).
Does Briarwood Farm Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Briarwood Farm Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Briarwood Farm Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation, Kalamazoo Community Foundation, H P & Genevieve Connable Fund.
Where is Briarwood Farm Foundation based?
Briarwood Farm Foundation is based in MI.

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 38 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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