California · Private foundation
The Borch Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,304,211
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 37
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations The Borch Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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 | 40 | $1.5M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $1.2M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $628k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $737k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $947k | 77% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $39k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Furman University | $4,104,211 | 5 | 0% |
| Adventure Unlimited | $100,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Muttville | $79,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Marine Mammal Center | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $26,350 | 6 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley | $24,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Chestnut Hill Benevolent Association | $21,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Marine Toys for Tots Foundation | $20,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Family Giving Tree | $20,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ghetto Rescue FFoundation | $18,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($411k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Borch Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Tenacre Foundation · The Isabel Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Mueller Hoisel Wanger Charitable Foundation Inc · United Association Journeymen & Apprentices 393 Ppf · Star One Credit Union · Annie Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation
How this is measured
About The Borch Foundation
- How much does The Borch Foundation give?
- The Borch Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $2,404,315 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Borch Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (84%), Animals (6%), Recreation & Sports (2%).
- Who are The Borch Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Furman University ($4.1M), Adventure Unlimited ($100k), Muttville ($80k).
- Does The Borch Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Borch Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Borch Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tenacre Foundation, The Isabel Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is The Borch Foundation based?
- The Borch Foundation is based in CA.
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