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Burleigh Family Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Burleigh Family Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Knights Of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Burleigh Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 33 organizations, $300k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k29 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $192k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PREGNANCY CENTER EAST | $30,000 |
| FOCUS | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS | $20,000 |
| DOMINICAN FRIARS FOUNDATION | $16,500 |
| GRAND TRAVERSE AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| MALTA HUMAN SERVICES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF CINCINNATI | $10,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $10,000 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| SISTERS OF LIFE | $10,000 |
| GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| DIOCESE OF COVINGTON | $10,000 |
| DIOCESE OF OWENSBORO KY | $10,000 |
| PONTIFICAL COLLEGE JOSEPHINUM | $10,000 |
| ST GERTRUDE CHURCH | $9,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–22, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
44 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2021, 12 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- EAETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC5× · 2017–2022 · $150k · revenue +114%
- ISINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC5× · 2017–2022 · $120k · revenue +10%
- GTGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY6× · 2017–2022 · $115k · revenue +321%
Funded once
- WOWORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +568%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
- TCTHE CATHOLIC INFORMATION CENTERone grant, 2019 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The catholic education foundation is dedicated to the growth and vitality of catholic education in the archdiocese of louisville. the foundation advances its mission primarily through tuition assistance grants to families who cannot afford…
The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…
Saint vincent college is an educational community rooted in the tradition of the catholic faith, the heritage of benedictine monasticism, and the love of values inherent in the liberal approach to life and learning. its mission is to…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
To make the catholic intellectual tradition a vital part of the culture of universities. to enrich academic communities at the university of chicago, across the nation, and the world with the insights of catholic thought. to dialogue with…
Collegium Institute is a Catholic intellectual apostolate that fosters the Catholic intellectual tradition within the University of Pennsylvania community and within the greater region and secular academia. (Continued on Sch. O)
Avila university, a catholic university sponsored by saint joseph educational ministries, a ministerial public juridic person of the catholic church (sjem), is a values-based community of learning providing liberal arts, professional,…
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
To provide a comprehensive understanding of person, marriage and family faithful to the catholic tradition in light of the teachings of the second vatican council and pope john paul ii, by means of a multidisciplinary education centered in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Caring Response Madagascar Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
46 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 84 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CENTER PLUS INC ↗
- Who funds RUAH WOODS ↗
- Who funds University of Dallas ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR SACRED HEART HOME ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds CISE ↗
- Who funds PONTIFICAL COLLEGE JOSEPHINUM ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds DePauw University ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MARIEMONT PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MALTA HUMAN SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JM EDUCATIONAL GROUP ↗
- Who funds CARING RESPONSE MADAGASCAR FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky · Bob & Felicia Burger Family Foundation · Tql Foundation Inc · Dewine Family Foundation Inc · The Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus · Dayton Foundation Depository · Duke Energy Foundation · The Newman Foundation Incorporated
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 Burleigh Family 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.
- Hope for Haiti Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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