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Stephen & Mary Birch Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
244
Grants FY2024still arriving
40
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$6.6MEducation$2.8MReligion$2.7MHuman Services$2.3MArts & Culture$2.0MYouth Development$910kPublic Safety & Disaster$751kAnimals$708kOther$0
02FY2024 · 244 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k78 grants · $371k
  • $10k–50k138 grants · $2.2M
  • $50k–250k25 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
$10,000
Median grant
40
States reached
$84M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WACO FAM PRACTICE FDN$750,000
AVE PHILOMENA$500,000
SBCS CORPORATION$250,000
UC SAN DIEGO BIRCH AQUARIUM$225,000
KICK START$200,000
GROSSMONT HOSPITAL FDN$150,000
CHRISTIAN HEALTH CARE CENTER$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
RAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION$100,000
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$100,000
RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE OF NJ$100,000
MCKINLEY PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY$75,000
HOUSE OF UKRAINE$75,000
SAN DIEGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM$65,000
OPERATION WARM$65,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN DEL: $15k → 10%OPERATION WARM: $50k → 10%PATIENT AIRLIFE SERVICE: $25k → 7%AZLE CARING CTR: $10k → 8%MISSION OF MERCY: $20k → 17%BLUEBONNET YOUTH RANCH: $20k → 20%ASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST: $10k → 12%TULSA BOYS HOME: $10k → 15%CITY CARE: $10k → 16%THE WOMENS CENTER: $20k → 5%TN FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%CHASE THE VICTORY: $25k → 13%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $30k → 8%CIRCLE TALL INC: $10k → 6%FISHERMANS MARK: $10k → 4%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $50k → 26%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $50k → 6%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICE: $25k → 7%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $10k → 10%OUR LADYS INN: $10k → 11%THE WOMENS CENTER: $10k → 5%BOXES OF LOVE PROJECT INC: $10k → 12%CIRCLE TAIL: $10k → 6%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $25k → 26%OPERATION WARM: $50k → 6%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICE: $25k → 7%ST MARTHAS HALL: $10k → 11%OPERATION WARM: $25k → 6%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS: $25k → 16%OPERATION WARM: $20k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $50k → 6%PAL O MINE EQUSTRIAN: $10k → 7%LORETO HOUSE: $25k → 8%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $10k → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS: $25k → 16%QUEST THERAPEUTIC SERVICES: $20k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $50k → 6%LORETO HOUSE: $25k → 8%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS: $25k → 16%LORETO HOUSE: $25k → 8%DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM: $25k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON: $20k → 16%BRING THE LIGHT MINISTRIES: $15k → 14%PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 14%CANINE COMPANIONS: $20k → 14%SBCS CORPORATION: $250k → 11%NOAH HOMES INC: $25k → 11%CRISIS HOUSE: $20k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$14M · 179 repeat orgs$7.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

179 repeat relationships — 132 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 108 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

179
226

Total granted

$14M
$5.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+9%

Still filing today

48%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

  • AP
    AVE PHILOMENA INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $625k · revenue +72% · 25% of their budget
  • SH
    Sharp Healthcare Foundation
    3× · 2020–2023 · $625k · revenue +34%
  • KD
    Kick Drugs Out of America Foundation
    3× · 2020–2022 · $500k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • TI
    TERI Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +25%
  • TS
    THE STATION OF THE CROSS RADIO
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • CC
    COVENANT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -11% · 84% of their budget

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.

1
Divine Canines

Divine canines therapy encourages smiles and brightens lives. to accomplish this, we recruit and train teams of dogs and their owners and organize and facilitate regular, frequent visits to residents of special care facilities.

Animals
2
Hero Dogs Inc

Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.

Human Services
3
Companions for Heroes

To champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.

Human Services
4
Little Angels Service Dogs

To maximize the innate ability of dogs to give the gift of independence to individuals regardless of disability or age.

Human Services
5
Leashes of Valor

Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…

Public Benefit
6
Patriot Paws Service Dogs

To train and provide service dogs of the highest quality at no cost to disabled american veterans and others with mobile disabilities in order to help restore their physical and emotional independence.

Human Services
7
Operation Freedom Paws

Operation Freedom Paws empowers veterans and individuals with disabilities to restore their freedom to live life.

Public Benefit
8
Noah's Animal House Foundation

To remove the "no pets allowed" sign on the doors of domestic violence shelters. women should not have to choose between leaving their abuser and leaving their pets behind to be abused.

Animals
9
Healing Paws for Warriors Inc

Healing paws for warriors is a local veteran found / veteran led 501(c)(3) that provides rescue to trained service dogs to veterans faced with post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), traumatic brain injury (tbi) and/or military sexual…

Human Services
10
Pets for Vets Inc

Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…

Public Benefit
11
Pet Orphans of Southern California

In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.

Animals
12
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minuteman Disaster Response Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Czech Catholic Foundation of Texas. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Social ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Military Veterans SupportEnvironmental Conservation …Affordable Housing Developm…Domestic Violence ServicesEquine Therapy ProgramsCancer Support ServicesAddiction Recovery ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity Food PantriesAffordable Housing Construc…Jewish Community Organizati…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Health Access Advocacy and …Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Dance Arts OrganizationsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Food Banks and PantriesLocal History MuseumsDevelopmental Disabilities …Community FoundationsElementary Literacy TutoringChristian Missionary Organi…Christian Youth CampsAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity College Foundatio…Senior Support ServicesIndependent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%7%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%17%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/290
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,275

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

269 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. 269 of the 516 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
49
Early backer (in before they grew)
266/269
Grantees still filing
158/269
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WACO FAM PRACTICE FDN — $1,500,000 · OtherWACO FAM PRACTICE FDNIndividual grant recipient — $500,000 · OtherTHE STATION OF THE CROSS RADIO — $500,000 · OtherCOVENANT HOUSE — $500,000 · OtherMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER — $400,000 · OtherKick Drugs Out of America Foundation — $500,000 · Other+122 more — $7,454,000 · Other+122 moreSharp Healthcare Foundation — $625,000 · HealthSharp Heal…THE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $195,000 · HealthTHE VALLEY…Christian Health Care Center — $160,000 · HealthChristian …Grossmont Hospital Foundation — $150,000 · HealthGrossmont …THE BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $125,000 · HealthTHE BIOLOG…ANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL — $75,000 · Health+13 more — $500,000 · Health+13 moreAVE PHILOMENA INC — $625,000 · ReligionAVE PHILO…TERI Inc — $500,000 · ReligionTERI IncMission of Divine Mercy Inc — $350,000 · ReligionMission o…+2 more — $50,000 · ReligionCOVENANT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $500,000 · EducationRAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $400,000 · EducationCornell University — $200,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $90,000 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $75,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · Education+2 more — $60,000 · EducationSBCS CORPORATION — $250,000 · Human ServicesOperation Warm Inc — $210,000 · Human ServicesMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $150,000 · Human ServicesPATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesGuide Dogs of Texas Inc — $75,000 · Human ServicesLORETO HOUSE — $75,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC — $75,000 · Human Services+14 more — $353,000 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY — $215,000 · Arts & CultureHOUSE OF UKRAINE — $205,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $105,000 · Arts & CulturePARLANCE CHAMBER CONCERTS INC — $105,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL MINING HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM — $100,000 · Arts & CultureNEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION — $30,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO YOUNG ARTIST MUSIC ACADEM — $30,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $45,000 · Arts & CultureBurn Institute — $200,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $154,500 · PhilanthropySan Diego Council on Literacy — $80,000 · PhilanthropyKIMBERLIE JO PATEK FOUNDATION — $77,500 · PhilanthropyMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION — $75,000 · PhilanthropyEagle Mount — $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE POTTER'S HANDS FOUNDATION — $30,000 · PhilanthropyTHE POTTERS HANDS FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $41,000 · Philanthropy
Other$11,354,000Health$1,830,000Religion$1,525,000Education$1,375,000Human Services$1,263,000Arts & Culture$835,000Philanthropy$738,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAVE PHILOMENA INC — $625,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetSharp Healthcare Foundation — $625,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetTERI Inc — $500,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetKick Drugs Out of America Foundation — $500,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetCOVENANT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $500,000 over 1y, 84% of budgetRAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetMission of Divine Mercy Inc — $350,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetSBCS CORPORATION — $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY — $215,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOperation Warm Inc — $210,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSE OF UKRAINE — $205,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetBurn Institute — $200,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetCornell University — $200,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHULA VISTA FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 5y, 70% of budgetTHE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $195,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetChristian Health Care Center — $160,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $154,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetK9S4COPS INC — $150,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetGrossmont Hospital Foundation — $150,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $105,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARLANCE CHAMBER CONCERTS INC — $105,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MINING HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM — $100,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetKLAAS KIDS FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $90,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHULA VISTA POLICE FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetSan Diego Council on Literacy — $80,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetKIMBERLIE JO PATEK FOUNDATION — $77,500 over 5y, 84% of budgetPATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC — $75,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFORPEACE INC — $75,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGuide Dogs of Texas Inc — $75,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL — $75,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLORETO HOUSE — $75,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAN DO CANINES — $70,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLIVING COAST DISCOVERY CENTER — $70,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetNOCONA RURAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $65,000 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetRETRIEVING FREEDOM INC — $60,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBRINGING HOPE HOME — $60,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVatican Observatory Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT SAN DIEGO — $50,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetEagle Mount — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFor Kids Foundation — $50,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budget
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 AVE PHILOMENA INC ↗
  • Who funds Sharp Healthcare Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TERI Inc ↗
  • Who funds Kick Drugs Out of America Foundation ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds RAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Mission of Divine Mercy Inc ↗
  • Who funds SBCS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF UKRAINE ↗
  • Who funds Burn Institute ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds CHULA VISTA FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Christian Health Care Center ↗
  • Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds K9S4COPS INC ↗
  • Who funds Grossmont Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds PARLANCE CHAMBER CONCERTS INC ↗

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.

Ken W Davis FoundationGil and Dody Weaver F…W P & Bulah Luse Foun…Strake FoundationHattie Mae Lesley Fou…Walter J & Betty C Za…Communities Foundatio…Coserv Charitable Fou…The Rees-Jones Founda…The Cushman FoundationThomas M Helen McKee …Harry S & Isabel C Ca…
Ken W Davis FoundationTX29.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ken W Davis Foundation · Gil and Dody Weaver Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Strake Foundation · Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Coserv Charitable Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company

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 Stephen & Mary Birch Foundation Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Family Promise of Southern Delaware Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Delaware Inc — 73% of income from government
  • Selah Freedom Inc — 53% of income from government
  • The Montclair Art Museum — 11% of income from government
  • Ramapo College Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • Christian Health Care Center — 0% of income from government
  • Casa of Jackson County Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
  • New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Children's Dream Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
44report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Stephen & Mary Birch Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Stephen & Mary Birch Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 516 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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