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The Bird Precision Charitable 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.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$31kAnimals$30kYouth Development$10kPhilanthropy$10kHealth$6kHousing & Shelter$5kEducation$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$96k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEWHOUSE WILDLIFE RESCUE$10,000
WALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$10,000
COUNCIL ON AGING-CITY OF WALTHAM$5,000
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS$5,000
HEALTHY WALTHAM$5,000
DIGNITY MATTERS INC$5,000
GLOBE SANTA FUND TRUST BOSTON GLOBE$5,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$5,000
PINE STREET INN$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DIGNITY MATTERS INC: $5k → 11%PINE STREET INN: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Danbury Animal Welfare Society

Danbury animal welfare society , inc.(daws) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of animals in our community and beyond. we promote responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals, and work toward…

Animals
2
Walkboston Inc

Walkmassachusetts makes walking safer and easier in massachusetts to encourage better health, a cleaner environment and vibrant communities.

Unclassified
3
Women's Money Matters Inc

Women's money matters, inc. empowers low-income women through financial literacy. the organization's comprehensive programming combines one-to-one coaching with a series of workshops that develop core money management skills and…

Human Services
4
Womens Fund Southcoast Inc

The womens fund southcoast advances gender, racial and economic justice through research, grantmaking and advocacy.

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5
Tapestry Health Systems Inc

To address the immediate health needs and long-term wellness of individuals, families and communities, and to provide compassionate health care, support services, and education regardless of age, race, gender, sexual orientation or income.

Health
6
Wakefield Food Pantry Inc

To provide food assistance to Wakefield residents in need.

Religion
7
Women's Institute for Housing and Economic Development Inc

The mission of the women's institute is to promote economic resilience and stable homes by developing and preserving high quality affordable and supportive housing, with an emphasis on under-served populations.

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8
New Bedford Women's Center Inc

To empower and support positive choices for all and to educate and take action in the community for the prevention of oppression and violence.

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9
Spoonfuls

Spoonfuls is an organization that facilitates the recovery and distribution of healthy, perishable food that would otherwise be discarded. spoonfuls works efficiently to deliver this food directly to the community organizations and…

Food & Nutrition
10
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc

The mission of the boston health care for the homeless program (bhchp) is to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in our community.

Human Services
11
Managers of Boston Port and Seamen's Aid Society
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12
Women's Fund of Rhode Island

Invests in women and girls through research, advocacy, grant making and strategic partnerships designed to achieve gender equity through systemic change.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Newhouse Wildlife Rescue Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Evas Kitties Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
2/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $21,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYWALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $10,000 · OtherWALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INCGLOBE SANTA FUND TRUST BOSTON GLOBE: $5,000 · OtherGLOBE SANTA FUND TRUST BOSTON GLOBECOUNCIL ON AGING-CITY OF WALTHAM: $5,000 · OtherCOUNCIL ON AGING-CITY OF WALTHAMIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+1 more: $250 · OtherEVAS KITTIES INC: $20,000 · AnimalsEVAS KITTIES INCNEWHOUSE WILDLIFE RESCUE CORPORATION: $10,000 · AnimalsNEWHOUSE WILDLIFE RESCUE CORPORATIO…PINE STREET INN INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET…Dignity Matters Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesDignity Mat…Healthy Waltham Inc: $5,000 · HealthCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION: $500 · HealthNATIONAL PANCREAS FOUNDATION: $500 · HealthWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$43,750Animals$30,000Human Services$10,000Health$6,000Philanthropy$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEWHOUSE WILDLIFE RESCUE CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHealthy Waltham Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDignity Matters Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PANCREAS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

American Tower Corporation Foundation IncMA17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Bird Precision Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bird Precision Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Christopher Reeve Foundation: 44% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Healthy Waltham Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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