Ohio · Private foundation
F Ross Birkhill and Laura Jean Birkhill
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $68k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $13,310
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations F Ross Birkhill and Laura Jean Birkhill funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $68k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $62k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $64k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $67k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $70k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $72k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $72k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salvation Army | $109,832 | 7 | n/a |
| The Corning Museum of Glass | $87,042 | 6 | 0% |
| Humane Society of Huron Valley | $23,456 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Michigan | $18,500 | 3 | 5% |
| Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan | $16,338 | 4 | 0% |
| Orlando Health Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Ann Arbor Film Festival | $14,032 | 6 | 13% |
| The Purple Rose Theatre Company | $13,415 | 3 | 0% |
| EdChoice Inc | $10,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Forgotten Harvest Inc | $9,695 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($72k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget F Ross Birkhill and Laura Jean Birkhill supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · United Way of Washtenaw County · DTE Energy Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
How this is measured
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About F Ross Birkhill and Laura Jean Birkhill
- How much does F Ross Birkhill and Laura Jean Birkhill give?
- F Ross Birkhill and Laura Jean Birkhill reported 16 grants totaling $67,730 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does F Ross Birkhill and Laura Jean Birkhill fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Human Services (27%), Education (14%).
- Who are F Ross Birkhill and Laura Jean Birkhill's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Salvation Army ($110k), The Corning Museum of Glass ($87k), Humane Society of Huron Valley ($23k).
- Does F Ross Birkhill and Laura Jean Birkhill fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does F Ross Birkhill and Laura Jean Birkhill accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as F Ross Birkhill and Laura Jean Birkhill?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation, United Way of Washtenaw County.
- Where is F Ross Birkhill and Laura Jean Birkhill based?
- F Ross Birkhill and Laura Jean Birkhill is based in OH.
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