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Burbury Elm Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
States reached
$915k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

International$2.4MScience & Tech$975kPhilanthropy$790kHuman Services$50kReligion$21kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$915,000
Median grant
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$915,000
SCOJEN INSTITUTE FOR SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY$487,332
02The need
03

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 US giving57% of grant dollars ($3.3M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 43% that went abroad ($2.5M) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ-SEAL INC: $150k → 8%CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL: $1k → 6%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEVE HANNA INC: $25k → 13%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MATAN INC: $10k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITIM INC: $5k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ERITZ HEMDAH: $13k → 14%CAMP RAMAH IN THE BERKSHIRES INC: $2k → 7%KAV LNOAR FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND: $15k → 16%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEVE HANNA INC: $25k → 13%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEMA'AN ACHAI: $4k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF IDC: $2.2M → 17%PEF ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $775k → 17%PEF ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $15k → 17%JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Beyond the US43% of all-years giving ($2.5M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Israel$2.5M · 5 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.3M · 4 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
12

Total granted

$3.3M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-9%
+53%

Still filing today

25%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.5M
  • SI
    SCOJEN INSTITUTE FOR SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $975k
  • PE
    PEF ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $790k

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2.2M · revenue -63%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ-SEAL INC
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -36%
  • THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +43%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
2
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
3
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
4
American Friends of the Rabbinical College Kol Torah Inc

To aid in the maintenance and development of the Rabbinical College Kol Torah of Jerusalem, Israel

Education
5
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
6
American Friends of Zvi Latzadik Dba Breslov Research Institute Jerusalem

To foster jewish religious education and disseminate the teachings of rabbi nachman of breslov through publication and distribution of books and cds, as well as seminars, lectures and study groups.

International
7
American Friends of Tzir Hemed
Philanthropy
8
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
9
American Friends of Torat Eliyahu
Philanthropy
10
Tel Aviv Museum's American Friends Inc

To provide support for the tel aviv museum located in israel

Philanthropy
11
American Friends of Bimad Alon Moreh Inc

The funds raised go to support a school for students and their families in the state of israel.

12
American Friends of Shviti Hashem Inc

To support and promote the study of torah (bible) among members of jewish faith worldwide.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Lema'an Achai and the most unlike its peers is Kav LNoar Foundation. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $1,515,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSCOJEN INSTITUTE FOR SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY — $975,492 · OtherSCOJEN INSTITUTE FOR SYNTHETIC BIOLOGYPEF ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $790,000 · OtherPEF ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC+2 more — $51,800 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC — $2,222,802 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INCAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ-SEAL INC — $150,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ-SEAL INC+6 more — $44,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MATAN INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITIM INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEMA'AN ACHAI — $3,600 · Philanthropy
Other$3,332,292International$2,417,302Philanthropy$18,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC — $2,222,802 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ-SEAL INC — $150,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEVE HANNA INC — $50,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ERETZ HEMDAH — $12,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MATAN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BNEI AKIVA YESHIVOT IN ISRAEL INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ITIM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKav LNoar Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEMA'AN ACHAI — $3,600 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN THE BERKSHIRES INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Fjc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Burbury Elm 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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