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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 FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$915,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$915,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 13
FY2020 to FY2023
Total assets, FY2024
$33M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Burbury Elm Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $488k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
InternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$1.4M0%
FY20232$988k50%
FY20222$2.3M100%
FY20212$800k0%
FY202013$255kn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Burbury Elm Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetKav LNoar Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Burbury Elm Foundation

How much does Burbury Elm Foundation give?
Burbury Elm Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $1,402,332 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Burbury Elm Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (42%), Science & Tech (17%), Philanthropy (14%).
Who are Burbury Elm Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: American Friends of Reichman University Inc ($2.2M), American Friends of Maoz-Seal Inc ($150k), American Friends of Neve Hanna Inc ($50k).
Does Burbury Elm Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Burbury Elm 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 Burbury Elm Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Jewish Communal Fund, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc.
Where is Burbury Elm Foundation based?
Burbury Elm Foundation is based in MA.

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 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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