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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 FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$625kHousing & Shelter$371kHealth$268kHuman Services$255kReligion$251kInternational$172kFood & Nutrition$164kCommunity Improvement$155kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $315k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Habitat for Humanity Greenville County$60,000
Cristo Rey Charleston High School$40,000
Don Bosco Cristo Rey$30,000
Washington Jesuit Academy$30,000
HOPE HALL$30,000
Washington School for Girls$30,000
BISHOP WALKER SCHOOL FOR BOYS$30,000
Mill Village Ministries$25,000
Operation Home$15,000
Jame Island Community Outreach$15,000
Lowcountry Food Bank$10,000
BRIDGES OF HOPE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
CAMP HAPPY DAYS$10,000
YouthBase$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $245k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Mill Village Ministries: $30k → 10%clothes to kids: $5k → 12%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $10k → 15%Mill Village Ministries: $25k → 10%Homeless Families Foundation: $5k → 15%Mill Village Ministries: $25k → 10%Interfaith Assistance Ministries: $5k → 12%Mill Village Ministries: $20k → 10%Valerie's House: $10k → 11%HOME START HOPE: $5k → 14%Operation Home: $15k → 12%Operation Home: $15k → 12%Neighbors Together: $10k → 12%Operation Home: $10k → 12%BRIDGES OF HOPE: $10k → 12%Operation Home: $10k → 12%Neighbors Together: $10k → 12%BRIDGES OF HOPE: $8k → 12%Bridges of Hope: $5k → 12%Bridges of Hope: $4k → 12%Operation Home: $3k → 12%Operation Home: $3k → 12%Operation Home: $3k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 46 repeat orgs$614k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
65

Total granted

$2.1M
$464k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+41%

Still filing today

46%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationInternationalHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HH
    HOPE HALL
    6× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +242%
  • LF
    LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +72%
  • MV
    MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES
    4× · 2022–2025 · $100k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • TV
    THE V FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +54%
  • NU
    NPH USA
    one grant, 2017 · $37k
  • TC
    treasure coast hospice
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
2
Foundation for the Homeless Inc

Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.

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3
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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4
Beyond Housing

We strive to serve the community by constructing and rehabilitating homes for affordable homeownership, providing new housing rentals for low to moderate wealth families in south carolina, and providing services that aid in all aspects of…

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5
Residential Opportunities Inc

We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.

Human Services
6
Hopehealth

Our purpose is to offer our skills and hearts to help patients and families live each day with hope and dignity.

Human Services
7
Search for Change Inc

Dedicated to improving the quality of life and increasing the self sufficiency of individuals with emotional, social and economic barriers. this is accomplished by providing direct support and assistance needed to enable individuals to…

Human Services
8
Charleston Waterkeeper

Charleston waterkeeper's mission it to protect and restore charleston's waterways for our community and future generations. we do that through an effective mix of boots-on-the-water stewardship and data-driven advocacy designed to protect…

Environment
9
Christel House International Inc

Chi prepares graduates of the christel house schools operated by its affiliated entities, which chi funds and oversees, to achieve upward economic mobility, demonstrate good citizenship, and become empowered to identify and realize their…

International
10
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
11
Techbridge Inc

Techbridge breaks the cycle of generational poverty through the innovative use of technology to transform nonprofit and community impact. techbridge's work is focused on four pillars: hunger relief, homeless support, social justice and…

Philanthropy
12
Earthenable Inc

Earthenable works to solve the housing crisis in africa by revolutionizing the rural housing industry through innovative, affordable, and sustainable home-building solutions. its mission is to create healthier, safer, and climate-resilient…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Missions International; the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. 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

62 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. 62 of the 121 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/62
Grantees still filing
44/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOPE HALL: $150,000 · OtherHOPE HALLIndividual grant recipient: $140,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMY: $130,000 · OtherWASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMYLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $110,000 · OtherLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INCHALOS: $105,000 · OtherHALOSDon Bosco Cristo Rey: $92,000 · OtherOur Lady of Mercy Community Outreach: $87,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $65,000 · OtherHabitat for Humanity Greenville County: $60,000 · OtherCONVENTION OF P E CHURCH OF THE DIOCESE OF WASHINGTON: $60,000 · OtherRonald McDonald House: $59,900 · Other+66 more: $727,118 · Other+66 moreMILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $100,000 · Human ServicesMILL VILLA…OPERATION HOME INC: $58,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION …BRIDGES OF HOPE: $26,500 · Human ServicesBRIDGES OF…Neighbors Together Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesNeighbors …CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesVALERIE'S HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Human Services+7 more: $26,500 · Human Services+7 moreWASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $128,000 · EducationWASHINGTO…CRISTO REY CHARLESTON HIGH SCHOOL INC: $40,000 · EducationCRISTO RE…CRISTO REY NETWORK: $20,000 · EducationCRISTO RE…CHARLESTON HOPE: $20,000 · EducationCHARLESTO…University of Notre Dame du Lac: $15,000 · EducationUniversit…+3 more: $11,500 · EducationFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC: $190,000 · Housing & Shelter+3 more: $4,000 · Housing & ShelterDIRECT RELIEF: $72,000 · InternationalTECHNOSERVE INC: $35,000 · InternationalWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $20,000 · International+1 more: $5,000 · InternationalTHE V FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthSERVANTS FOR SIGHT: $15,000 · HealthANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC: $10,000 · HealthGROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC: $6,500 · HealthBARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC: $5,000 · HealthALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthWALTS WALTZ: $3,500 · Health+3 more: $5,500 · HealthMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionEAST COOPER MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $13,000 · Food & NutritionFOODLINK INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionHILL COUNTRY DAILY BREAD: $3,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,786,518Human Services$251,000Education$234,500Housing & Shelter$194,000International$157,000Health$90,500Food & Nutrition$41,000

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 budgetFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC: $190,000 over 4y, 42% of budgetHOPE HALL: $150,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetWASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $128,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $110,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $100,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $72,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HOME INC: $58,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetCRISTO REY CHARLESTON HIGH SCHOOL INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTECHNOSERVE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHBASE INC: $30,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetBRIDGES OF HOPE: $26,500 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCRISTO REY NETWORK: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNeighbors Together Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKIDS ON POINT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SPY MUSEUM: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLESTON HOPE: $20,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSERVANTS FOR SIGHT: $15,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEAST COOPER MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetYELLOW RIBBON FUND INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDC SCORES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVALERIE'S HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCAMP HAPPY DAYS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCharleston Habitat for Humanity Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSouth Carolina Aquarium: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAERIAL RECOVERY: $5,113 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEast Cooper Habitat for Humanity Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MAYA ANGELOU PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLOTHES TO KIDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLITERACY CONNECTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInterfaith Assistance Ministry Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDOG TAG INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWALTS WALTZ: $3,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSWITCH: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFATHER TO FATHER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHILL COUNTRY DAILY BREAD: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HALL ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
  • Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds CRISTO REY CHARLESTON HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TECHNOSERVE INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTHBASE INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGES OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds CRISTO REY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Neighbors Together Inc ↗
  • Who funds KIDS ON POINT INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL SPY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARLESTON HOPE ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗

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.

Coastal Community Fou…The Joanna FoundationKuznik Charitable Fou…Henry & Sylvia Yaschi…Dominion Energy Chari…Roper St Francis Heal…Trident United WayBeyond Our Gates Foun…Sisters of Charity Fo…Central Carolina Comm…Medical Society of So…The Mark Elliott Motl…
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC28.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Birk Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Birk Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Valerie's House Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
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 121 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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