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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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
46 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. 46 of the 84 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Burleigh Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burleigh Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hope for Haiti Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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