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Byrd-Borland Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLECTIVE POWER FOR REPRDUCTIVE JUSTICE | $7,000 |
| SAFE PASSAGE CAMINO SEGURO | $6,000 |
| IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT | $5,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS FUND | $5,000 |
| TRENTON CIRCUS SQUAD | $5,000 |
| YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN'S RIGHTS | $4,000 |
| LOOK FOR THE GOOD PROJECT | $4,000 |
| FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE PROJECT | $4,000 |
| TRUST WOMEN FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| MAINE INSIDE OUT | $3,000 |
| NO MORE DEATHS | $3,000 |
| 350ORG | $3,000 |
| PEBBLE STREET | $3,000 |
| MAINE FAMILY PLANNING | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 57% 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 99% of Byrd-Borland 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, 16% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 1% — 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.
38 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- LSLITTLE SISTERS FUND INC6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +37%
- ILIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +75%
- PHPROJECT HOSPITALITY INC6× · 2019–2025 · $17k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- PCPortland Community Health Centergraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +236%
- MFMAUI FIRE RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2023 · $2k
- NNASWone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center serves as a hub of collaboration that strengthens the immigrant community through language acquisition, economic integration and civic engagement.
The Partnership Project is organized and operated exclusively to enhance protection of the natural environment by improving the effectiveness of environmental organizations. It currently has 17 groups participating, including the largest…
To protect and promote every persons right to access the full range of reproductive healthcare choices in Washington State, including safe and legal abortion, through education, advocacy, lobbying and coalition-building
Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.
Empowering life-affirming decisions
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
The Organization's purpose is to encourage and protect informed individual choice regarding reproductive health care, to advocate public policies which guarantee the right to choice and full and non-discriminatory access to reproductive…
APEN builds immigrant and refugee power for a just transition with local roots and statewide impact so all people can live, work, learn, play and thrive in a clean and healthy environment.
Ppmw provides high-quality, compassionate healthcare, including reproductive care; promote sexual health; and advocate for reproductive rights and health equity for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest and the most unlike its peers is Florida Wildlife Hospital & Sanctuary Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 57 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 LITTLE SISTERS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOSPITALITY INC ↗
- Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION OF MAINE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BREVARD WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Trust Women Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MAINE INSIDE OUT ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA WILDLIFE HOSPITAL & SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds Portland Community Health Center ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Maine Equal Justice Partners ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds Campaign For Southern Equality ↗
- Who funds VICTIMWITNESS SERVICES OF SOUTH PHILADELPHIA ↗
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: John T Gorman Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The William Penn Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Byrd-Borland 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- South Brevard Women's Center Inc — 45% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
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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