How much did COLE BIRCHES FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of COLE BIRCHES FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k16 grants · $57k
$10k–50k3 grants · $40k

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

CHRIST CHURCH BRONXVILLE$20,000
NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA FOUNDATION$10,000
PRESIDENT & FELLOWS MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE$10,000
MARET SCHOOL$7,500
MIRIAM'S KITCHEN$6,000
BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC$5,000
COURAGEOUS KIDZ INC$5,000
CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL$5,000
NATIONAL TAY SACHS & ALLIED DISEASE ASSN$5,000
HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC$4,000
RAZOM$3,000
HOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION$3,000
ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB$2,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$2,000
CITY WILDLIFE INC$2,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$475k · 24 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$475k

$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

+92%

Still filing today

71%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthInternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsOther

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

MK
MIRIAM'S KITCHEN
6× · 2019–2024 · $36k · revenue +143%
BB
BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue +169%
NP
NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA FOUNDATION
4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +194%

Funded once

KS
KYIV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICSgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +3228%
CC
CHRIST CHURCH
one grant, 2022 · $10k
AS
ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
one grant, 2019 · $8k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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 Seed Public Charter School of

The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…

Education

Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…

Education

The Common School Inc

School for the education of children from early childhood through elementary

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The Dome School

Teaching whole child using thematic curriculum, conflict resolution,self esteem, non-violent solutions to problems. bringing community sogether socially, serving nutritious meals.

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Center City Public Charter Schools

Center city public charter schools (center city pcs) empowers our students for lifelong success by building strong character, promoting academic excellence, and generating public service throughout washington, d.c.

Education

Washington Global Public Charter School

A community school open to all middle school students in washington, dc, that utilizes a rigorous, internationally based academic and cultural curriculum that integrates project-based learning, service-learning, technology, and language…

Education

The Mclean School of Maryland Inc

Privately funded, full scope, college preparatory educational institution dedicated to the education of students from kindergarten through grade 12.

Education

Wakefield School Inc

To foster the character, curiosity, & clear voices the world needs

Education

Montgomery School

Non-profit independent school dedicated to the education of students in mind, body and character.

Education

The Miquon School

Quality private education provided as an alternative to the public school system.

Education

Pluralistic School Inc

Provide elementary school education to students in grades kindergarten through sixth grade.

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Cold Spring School Inc

Independent day school for children from preschool through grade six

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Queens Academy Charter School and the most unlike its peers is The Madeira School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/23

the rest of the field

10%

4,662/48,688

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.

04the grantee network

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/23

Grantees still filing

18/23

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$333,030Education$77,500Human Services$36,000Health$33,000International$23,000Environment$17,000Animals$15,000

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.

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.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Ge Foundation · Verizon Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation

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 organisation COLE BIRCHES 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: COURAGEOUS KIDZ INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~18 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 113766807 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on COURAGEOUS KIDZ INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 18 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Cole Birches Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cole Birches Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

COLE BIRCHES FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Cole Birches Foundation?

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COLE BIRCHES FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Cole Birches Foundation?

More from the funding graph