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The Birchrock 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.

$380k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
30
Grants FY2024
24
Organizations funded FY2023
54%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 24
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$5.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 54% of the organizations The Birchrock Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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 arriving25$380k48%
FY202324$172k54%
FY202214$153k29%
FY202117$107k35%
FY202018$231k100%
FY20191$9n/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$408kPhilanthropy$346kArts & Culture$274kHealth$249kReligion$56kEnvironment$11kHousing & Shelter$6kYouth Development$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NY
MA
OH
VA
MD
AL
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Williams College$200,00010%
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc$185,00040%
Rashi School Inc$150,0003n/a
Whitney Museum of American Art$113,50050%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$63,00040%
Beth Israel Lahey Health Inc$60,00010%
Temple Beth Elohim$53,8385n/a
Meadowbrook School of Weston Incorporated$50,00010%
The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc$30,00011%
The Coastal Symphony of Georgia Inc$6,00822%
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All grantees of The Birchrock Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Williams College$200,00010%
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc$185,00040%
Rashi School Inc$150,0003n/a
Whitney Museum of American Art$113,50050%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$63,00040%
Beth Israel Lahey Health Inc$60,00010%
Temple Beth Elohim$53,8385n/a
Meadowbrook School of Weston Incorporated$50,00010%
The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc$30,00011%
The Coastal Symphony of Georgia Inc$6,00822%
Lower East Side Tenement Museum$5,00010%
Hand in Hand of Glynn Inc$5,00011%
Boys & Girls Club of Southeast Georgia Inc$5,00010%
Waldo Theatre Inc$5,00011%
St Simons Land Trust Inc$5,00050%
Council on Foreign Relations Inc$2,67040%
School of American Ballet Inc$2,50010%
Harlem Academy$2,50010%
Winnebago Alumni Association Inc$2,25031%
Southeast Georgia Health System Inc$2,00020%
Temple Beth Tefilloh Inc$1,4502n/a
WGBH Educational Foundation$1,27550%
Waldoboro Food Pantry$1,25021%
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc$1,00010%
National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force Inc$1,00010%
Hand in Hand$1,00010%
Signature Squares of Brunswick Inc$1,00012%
Forward Brunswick Inc$1,00011%
Shelburne Museum Inc$1,00010%
Abos Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a
Waldoborough Historical Society$7503n/a
Jett Foundation Inc$50010%
Out of Hand Theater$50010%
Companions for Heroes$50010%
Homeworthy$50010%
Children's Hospital Corporation$50010%
Equal Justice Initiative$50010%
Atalanta NYC Inc$50010%
Golden Isles Arts & Humanities Association Inc$35010%
Boston City Singers Inc$25010%
Grey Matters Project Inc$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($80k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Birchrock Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWilliams College: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: $185,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $113,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $63,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBeth Israel Lahey Health Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeadowbrook School of Weston Incorporated: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Coastal Symphony of Georgia Inc: $6,008 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLower East Side Tenement Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHand in Hand of Glynn Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Southeast Georgia Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWaldo Theatre Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSt Simons Land Trust Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCouncil on Foreign Relations Inc: $2,670 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSchool of American Ballet Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarlem Academy: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWinnebago Alumni Association Inc: $2,250 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSoutheast Georgia Health System Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $1,275 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWaldoboro Food Pantry: $1,250 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCoastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHand in Hand: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSignature Squares of Brunswick Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetForward Brunswick Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetShelburne Museum Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJett Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOut of Hand Theater: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCompanions for Heroes: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHomeworthy: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAtalanta NYC Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGolden Isles Arts & Humanities Association Inc: $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoston City Singers Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrey Matters Project Inc: $250 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 36.

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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.

Arthur and Lindee Lucas Family Foundation IncGA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arthur and Lindee Lucas Family Foundation Inc · Torras Foundation Inc · Davis Love III Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · St Marys Methodist Church Foundation I · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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 The Birchrock Foundation

How much does The Birchrock Foundation give?
The Birchrock Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $379,803 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 24 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The Birchrock Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (26%), Philanthropy (22%), Arts & Culture (17%).
Who are The Birchrock Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Williams College ($200k), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc ($185k), Rashi School Inc ($150k).
Does The Birchrock Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Birchrock 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 The Birchrock Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arthur and Lindee Lucas Family Foundation Inc, Torras Foundation Inc, Davis Love III Foundation.
Where is The Birchrock Foundation based?
The Birchrock Foundation is based in NY.

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 58 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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