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Burbury Elm Foundation at a glance

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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
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States reached
$915k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% 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
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

US giving: 57% 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, its grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Beyond the US: 43% of all-years giving ($2.5M)

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

grant dollars sentlessmore
Israel$2.5M · 5 grants
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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.

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%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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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.

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12
American Friends of Shviti Hashem Inc

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

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Lema'an Achai; 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 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. 13 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.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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 …Jewish Communal FundCombined Jewish Phila…FjcVanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Burbury Elm Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burbury Elm Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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