New Hampshire · Nonprofit
THE BIRCHTREE CENTER
THE BIRCHTREE CENTER (New Hampshire) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $264,922 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($69,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.8M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $265k
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What The Birchtree Center does
Mission
The Birchtree Center supports individuals with autism and other diverse abilities by providing personalized education and outreach programs that promote inclusion, independence, and holistic growth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Birchtree Center serves 600+ individuals each year, including individuals with autism and other diverse abilities, their parents and families, and the educators and caregivers who support them. At our day school in portsmouth, nh, we operate an intensive, year-round special educational day school program for students with autism in grades prek-12. Twenty-four public school districts in new hampshire, and maine sent students to attend our day school in the 2024-2025 financial year. Our outreach staff travels 30,000+ miles per year to provide consultation, training, direct services and workshops for students, families, public schools, and community agencies throughout northern new england.
$6,083,615 spent$6,462,755 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,083,615.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.4M to $6.8M (+185%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 0% · 2021 5% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of THE BIRCHTREE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Sandra Pierce-Jordan
Exec. Director (non-voting)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $25k → $46k.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE BIRCHTREE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE BIRCHTREE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
72% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE BIRCHTREE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 100% · 2019 75% · 2020 99% · 2021 72% · 2022 33% · 2023 33% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of THE BIRCHTREE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
52% of THE BIRCHTREE CENTER's grant income comes from New Hampshire funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $128k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE BIRCHTREE CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE BIRCHTREE CENTER
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BIRCHTREE CENTER: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE BIRCHTREE CENTER?
- THE BIRCHTREE CENTER (New Hampshire) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $264,922 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($69,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BIRCHTREE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $264,922 in grants to THE BIRCHTREE CENTER, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BIRCHTREE CENTER?
- New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $69,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BIRCHTREE CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing