· Private foundation
The Robert and Janis Birchall Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $23,000 |
| HILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| TEXAS GUN SENSE | $10,000 |
| FINAL FRONTIER RESCUE PROJECT | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DMDEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $121k · revenue +197%
- WAWIMBERLEY ADOPTION GROUP AND RESCUE CORPORATION6× · 2017–2022 · $106k · revenue +105%
- MOMISSION OF MERCY INC4× · 2017–2023 · $50k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- BTBUILD TEXAS A&Mone grant, 2023 · $22k
- CBCOASTAL BEND COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $20k
- HDHay Dude Critter Rescueone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +24%
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.
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.
Throw a Dog a Bone is an all-breed dog rescue located in Austin, TX. We focus on saving dogs primarily in the rural shelters in South Texas. Many of these shelters have no exposure and very few resources. Our mission is to rescue as many…
We own and operate a spay/neuter and wellness clinic. Our purpose is to end animal cruelty in Texas, spay/neuter, vaccinate, and end the dumping and abandonment of cats and dogs. We also have an education program to teach Texas residents…
Provide food, shelter and care for homeless, unwanted, pets. give pets a second chance by adoption. pay medical bills incoming injured animals, assist pet owners with free spay/neuter and medical appointments at veterinarians. educate thr…
To protect and improve the lives of dogs and cats by providing shelter, care, adoption, rescue, spay & neuter programs and community education.
NTASR helps rescue and rehabilitate Australian Shepherds, Border Collies, and mixes of the two.Thus far, several other breeds have made their way through the rescue including a doodle, a dachshund, a frenchie, and a shar pei. NTASR takes…
To provide humane shelter, care and placement for stray and unwanted animals, and to promote the human-animal bond and responsible pet ownership to enhance the quality of life for the people and animals in our community.
Fix West Texas mission is to lower the local euthanasia rate dogs and cats put to sleep in our local shelter due to lack of space and to lower intakes number of dogs and cats taken in by the local shelter and local rescues in our West…
Saving unwanted, abandoned, abused and neglected dogs in Texas. Also to promote proper pet ownership, community educational programs and to support spaying/neutering as a means to control unwanted pets. We provide complete vetting prior to…
The Organizations mission is to save the lives of adoptable dogs and cats from shelters throughout Texas, to decrease overpopulation of animals through low-cost veterinary services, and to enhance the lives of pets through educational…
The mission of Doodle Dandy Rescue is to rescue, rehabilitate and rehome Doodle dogs in crisis so that they are adoptable into save and loving homes in Texas. We strive to be a rescue leader in our community by implementing best practices…
Rescue Texas Resources is a foster based, 501c3 rescue group operating throughout Texas and in partnership with other rescue organizations. We were established to respond to the extreme number of at-risk dogs that need help from our…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 DEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WIMBERLEY ADOPTION GROUP AND RESCUE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Gun Sense ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds Hay Dude Critter Rescue ↗
- Who funds Crisis Breadbasket ↗
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: Ed Rachal Foundation · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Robert and Janis Birchall Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert and Janis Birchall Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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