· Private foundation
Country Born 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROSS COUNTY AGRICULTURE SOCIETY | $250,000 |
| WAYNE TOWNSHIP FIRE ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| ROSS COUNTY 4H CLUB | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +1614% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CTCONCORD TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC2× · 2018–2020 · $627k · revenue ×17
- RCROSS COUNTY 4-H8× · 2017–2024 · $219k
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc3× · 2019–2023 · $49k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- CBCOUNTRY BORN FOUNDATION DONOR ADVISED ACCOUNT JOHNSON CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDone grant, 2017 · $500k
- NFNAVARRO FARM INCone grant, 2023 · $72k · revenue -18%
- AOADMINISTRATORS OF TULANE EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2024 · $50k
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.
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.
The purpose of the society is the humane treatment of animals. caring and sheltering of lost and unwanted pets, placement of such animals in a humane environment, implementation of programs and services promoting responsible pet ownership…
The kershaw county humane society is dedicated to providing food, housing and medical care to all lost or homeless animals. our goal is to reunite pets with their owners and to address the root causes of animal abuse and overpopulation…
Rose's rescue is an all-breed rescue for dogs and cats. we primarily concentrate on local pound rescues as we feel these are the animals in the direst need of a second chance. we are committed to finding the best possible home for every…
To increase public understanding of the rett syndrome, its nature and treatment; to research rett syndrome and reduce the stigma of the same by means of education of the community concerning rett syndrome as a disease and public health…
Dedicated to the welfare of animals through rescue, care and placement into permanent and loving homes.
Since 1944, the north shore animal league america's mission has been to save the lives of pets through adoption, rescue, education, medical care, spay/neuter and advocacy.
To promote participation of the youth of lamar county in livestock shows.
The purpose of argos, a shelter dog rescue is: to rescue animals from situations that are abusive, endangering, or neglectful. to rescue animals in danger of being euthanized in new mexico shelters/pounds. to provide necessary veterinary…
Our mission is to advocate and compassionately care for the abandoned, abused, and neglected animals in our community, and to find them loving homes.
Mission: to protect animals and build connections between pets and people through advocacy and education. vision: leading and guiding a humane lake county core values: compassion for pets and people. engagement through innovative programs,…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CONCORD TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ROSS COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds NAVARRO FARM INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ROSS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH AQUATICS CLUB INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Country Born Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Country Born Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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