Delaware · Private foundation
Bur Oak 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.
- $739k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $175,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 22
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations Bur Oak Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k 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 | 19 | $739k | 37% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $748k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $943k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $690k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $617k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| President and Fellows of Middlebury College | $450,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of Tracy Aviary | $390,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Earthjustice | $230,338 | 2 | 0% |
| Wasatch Community Gardens | $225,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Huntsman Cancer Foundation | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Great Basin Water Network Inc | $200,000 | 5 | 17% |
| University of Utah | $200,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Conserve Utah Valley | $111,983 | 2 | 56% |
| National AIDS Memorial Inc | $110,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($600k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bur Oak Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Community Foundation of Utah · Palladium Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Orange County Community Foundation · SJ and Jessie E Quinney Foundation · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Janet Q Lawson Foundation
How this is measured
About Bur Oak Foundation
- How much does Bur Oak Foundation give?
- Bur Oak Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $739,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 22 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Bur Oak Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (33%), Education (18%), Animals (14%).
- Who are Bur Oak Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: President and Fellows of Middlebury College ($450k), Friends of Tracy Aviary ($390k), Earthjustice ($230k).
- Does Bur Oak Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bur Oak Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bur Oak Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Utah, Palladium Foundation, Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation.
- Where is Bur Oak Foundation based?
- Bur Oak Foundation is based in DE.
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