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The Everett B and Patti Birch Foundation at a glance

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The Everett B and Patti Birch Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.9M
Granted FY2022
9
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of The Everett B and Patti Birch Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to King Baudouin Foundation Us Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Everett B and Patti Birch Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $4M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

3
’17
7
’20
0
’21
8
’22
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$3.8MPublic Benefit$3.0MEducation$3.0MHealth$1.0MFood & Nutrition$500kCrime & Legal$500kHuman Services$500kInternational$365kOther$0
02FY2022 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+8 grants · $3.8M
$500,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MALDEF$1,000,000
INT'L REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT$500,000
KIND INC$500,000
FAIR ELECTIONS CENTER$500,000
VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER$500,000
COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND$300,000
THE COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS$250,000
LAWYER'S COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS$250,000
UJAA$100,000
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 (FY22–22, $500k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%INT'L REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $500k → 17%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 5 repeat orgs$5.2M to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$4.5M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+40%

Still filing today

100%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22
Civil RightsCrime & LegalHealthPublic BenefitFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CT
    COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +28%
  • FE
    Fair Elections Center
    2× · 2020–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +78%
  • CC
    COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND
    2× · 2020–2022 · $800k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue +12%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE OPERATING ACCOUNT
    one grant, 2017 · $500k
  • Feeding Americagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +40%
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
Federation for American Immigration Reform

The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.

International
2
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
3
Sociedad Interamericana De Prensa Inc

Between 2024 and 2025, the committee on freedom of the press and information, together with its subcommittees on impunity and chapultepecsalta, participated in approximately nine activities. these included a panel discussion entitled…

Education
4
Free Press Action Fund

Free press action fund fights for your rights to connect and communicate. we fight to save the free and open internet, curb runaway media consolidation, protect press freedom, and promote digital civil rights. we believe that change…

Civil Rights
5
Common Cause

With offices in washington d.c. and 25 states and 1.5 million supporters and activists, common cause works to advance democracy reforms at federal, state, and local levels, through drafting model legislation, lobbying, public engagement,…

—
6
Free Press

Free press was created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media. we believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse…

Arts & Culture
7
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
8
International Bridges to Justice

In recognition of the fundamental principles of the universal declaration of human rights, international bridges to justice (ibj) is dedicated to protecting the basic legal rights of ordinary citizens in developing countries. specifically,…

Crime & Legal
9
American Immigration Lawyers Association

The american immigration lawyers association (aila) was established to promote justice, advocate for fair and reasonable immigration law and policy, advance the quality of immigration and nationality law and practice, and enhance the…

—
10
Civicus World Alliance for Citizen Participation

Civicus is a global alliance of civil society organisations and activists dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world.

Youth Development
11
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
12
Center for Democracy and Technology

Advocating for public policies that advance democratic values in the digital age.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Venture Fund; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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

15 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. 15 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $1,250,000 · Civil RightsCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INCTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $1,000,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTERMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND: $1,000,000 · Civil RightsMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFE…Fair Elections Center: $1,000,000 · Civil RightsFair Elections CenterTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,000,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA …ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE OPERATING ACCOUNT: $500,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE…Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $500,000 · OtherLawyers' Committee for…Verified Voting Foundation: $250,000 · OtherVerified Voting Founda…the metropolitan of art: $250,000 · Otherthe metropolitan of ar…HOPE FOR CHILDREN: $100,000 · OtherUJAA: $100,000 · OtherFeeding America: $500,000 · OtherFeeding AmericaMYRIAD USA INC: $265,000 · OtherMYRIAD USA INCNEW VENTURE FUND: $200,000 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUNDPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000,000 · HealthKIND INC: $500,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $500,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $800,000 · Public BenefitINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $500,000 · Human Services
Civil Rights$4,250,000Education$3,000,000Other$2,665,000Health$1,000,000Crime & Legal$1,000,000Public Benefit$800,000Human Services$500,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $1,250,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $1,000,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND: $1,000,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetFair Elections Center: $1,000,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $800,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $500,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetKIND INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFeeding America: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $265,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVerified Voting Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $200,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Everett B and Patti Birch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Everett B and Patti Birch Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Everett B and Patti Birch Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Everett B and Patti Birch Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 19 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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