South Carolina · Private foundation
The Birk Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $440k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations The Birk Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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 | 31 | $430k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $335k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $326k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $310k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $230k | 73% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $297k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $280k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $270k | 58% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fuller Center for Housing of McCormick Sc Inc | $190,000 | 4 | 42% |
| Hope Hall | $150,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Washington Jesuit Academy | $130,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Washington School for Girls | $128,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Lowcountry Food Bank Inc | $110,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Mill Village Ministries | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Direct Relief | $72,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Convention of P E Church of the Diocese of Washington | $60,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Operation Home Inc | $58,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Cristo Rey Charleston High School Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 68 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Birk Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 57 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Kuznik Charitable Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Roper St Francis Healthcare · Trident United Way · Beyond Our Gates Foundation of Kiawah & Seabrook · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Medical Society of South Carolina · The Mark Elliott Motley Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Birk Family Foundation Inc
- How much does The Birk Family Foundation Inc give?
- The Birk Family Foundation Inc reported 32 grants totaling $440,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Birk Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Housing & Shelter (13%), Health (10%).
- Who are The Birk Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fuller Center for Housing of McCormick Sc Inc ($190k), Hope Hall ($150k), Washington Jesuit Academy ($130k).
- Does The Birk Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Birk Family Foundation Inc 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 Birk Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, The Joanna Foundation, Kuznik Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Birk Family Foundation Inc based?
- The Birk Family Foundation Inc is based in SC.
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