· Private foundation
The Borch Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Furman University | $1,050,000 |
| University of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $50,000 |
| Best Friends | $25,000 |
| Humane Society | $20,000 |
| Muttville | $15,000 |
| Adventure Unlimited | $15,000 |
| THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SV | $4,000 |
| Second Harvest | $3,000 |
| The Nature Conservency | $2,500 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $2,500 |
| Marine Toys for Tots Foundation | $2,500 |
| Ghetto Rescue Foundation | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
33 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- AUADVENTURE UNLIMITED4× · 2021–2024 · $85k · revenue +15%
- TMTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +29%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY4× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +361%
Funded once
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEYone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +24%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEYone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +14%
- GEGREENVILLE ELITE TRACK CLUBone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -12%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
The peninsula humane society & spca, guided by the humane ethic, builds healthy relationships between people and animals.
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
To reduce the number of homeless pets through adoption, rescue and spay and neuter programs.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
To protect and enhance the lives of companion animals by promoting healthy relationships between pets and people. hsbv is an open admission, socially conscious shelter. hsbv provides safety net services, comprehensive adoption matching for…
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Providing positive life changing solutions to people and animals in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cat Town and the most unlike its peers is The Link School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 59 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds MUTTVILLE ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY GIVING TREE ↗
- Who funds Chestnut Hill Benevolent Association ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ghetto Rescue FFoundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CENTER OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ARDEN WOOD INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds LONGYEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds TWELVEACRES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE ELITE TRACK CLUB ↗
- Who funds The Link School ↗
- Who funds THE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WEST VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEALTH TRUST ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Borch Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.