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Burgess Family 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.

$117k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
43%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$18,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 14
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$2.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Burgess Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$117k21%
FY20237$18k43%
FY202214$107kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Animals$53kArts & Culture$42kEducation$40kHuman Services$38kCrime & Legal$11kEmployment$10kHealth$9kHousing & Shelter$8kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Burgess Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pembroke Hill School$30,00020%
Kitty Cat Connection Inc$20,50038%
Fix'em KC$17,00029%
Metropolitan Organization Countering Sexual Assault$11,00030%
Rose Brooks Center Inc$10,20020%
Kc Common Good Inc$10,00020%
Sheffield Place$7,50020%
Hope House Inc$7,50010%
Community Capital Fund$7,50010%
ERICS CAMP FUNDErics Camp Fund$1,00011%
Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($119k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Burgess Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPembroke Hill School: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKitty Cat Connection Inc: $20,500 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetFix'em KC: $17,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetMetropolitan Organization Countering Sexual Assault: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRose Brooks Center Inc: $10,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKc Common Good Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSheffield Place: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHope House Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Capital Fund: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetERICS CAMP FUNDErics Camp Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCatholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc: $500 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 11.

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.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO22.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Hall Family Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Jagoda Family Foundation · Merriman Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · The Shumaker Family 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 Burgess Family Foundation

How much does Burgess Family Foundation give?
Burgess Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $116,881 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Burgess Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (22%), Arts & Culture (17%), Education (17%).
Who are Burgess Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Pembroke Hill School ($30k), Kitty Cat Connection Inc ($21k), Fix'em KC ($17k).
Does Burgess Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Burgess Family 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 Burgess Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee, Hall Family Foundation.
Where is Burgess Family Foundation based?
Burgess Family Foundation is based in MO.

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 20 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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