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Carl & Tammy Birnberg Family 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.

$18k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$12,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 20
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Carl & Tammy Birnberg Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
HealthFood & NutritionReligionInternationalCivil RightsMembership BenefitOther
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 arriving4$18k50%
FY20233$15k100%
FY20223$30033%
FY202120$158k75%
FY202010$26kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$62kEducation$56kReligion$54kPhilanthropy$12kArts & Culture$6kRecreation & Sports$3kInternational$3kHealth$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
NY
IA
PA
CA
MD
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of Carl & Tammy Birnberg Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jewish Family Service of the Desert$50,41622%
Temple of Aaron$11,0001n/a
Herzl Camp Foundation$3,10010%
Birthright Israel Foundation$3,00010%
Minnesota Jewish Community Center$2,15020%
Allina Health Foundation$2,00010%
Anti-Defamation League$50010%
Sholom Community Alliance$40010%
Organic Acidemia Association Corporation$20010%
Children's Health Care$10010%
Second Harvest Heartland$10010%
Tifereth Israel Synagogue Foundation$10010%
Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind$10010%
Cornerhouse$10010%
Every Meal$9010%

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($144k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Carl & Tammy Birnberg Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJewish Family Service of the Desert: $50,416 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHerzl Camp Foundation: $3,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Jewish Community Center: $2,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAllina Health Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSholom Community Alliance: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOrganic Acidemia Association Corporation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Health Care: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest Heartland: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTifereth Israel Synagogue Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael Guide Dog Center for the Blind: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornerhouse: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEvery Meal: $90 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 14.

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.

Alex G & Mollie Tankenoff Family FoundationMN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alex G & Mollie Tankenoff Family Foundation · Marshall & Elaine Siegel Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Carl & Tammy Birnberg Family Foundation

How much does Carl & Tammy Birnberg Family Foundation give?
Carl & Tammy Birnberg Family Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $17,900 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Carl & Tammy Birnberg Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Education (26%), Religion (25%).
Who are Carl & Tammy Birnberg Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Jewish Family Service of the Desert ($50k), Temple of Aaron ($11k), Herzl Camp Foundation ($3k).
Does Carl & Tammy Birnberg Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Carl & Tammy Birnberg Family 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 Carl & Tammy Birnberg Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alex G & Mollie Tankenoff Family Foundation, Marshall & Elaine Siegel Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.
Where is Carl & Tammy Birnberg Family Foundation based?
Carl & Tammy Birnberg Family Foundation is based in MN.

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 31 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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