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Burlingame Foundation at a glance

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Burlingame 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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2023
24
Grants FY2023
8
States reached
$210k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

International$1.6MHealth$1.3MHuman Services$824kPublic Safety & Disaster$458kFood & Nutrition$306kEducation$242kCrime & Legal$35k
02FY2023 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $225k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.5M
$50,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICARES$210,000
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES$200,000
FEEDING AMERICA$165,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$150,000
FINCA$125,000
SALVATION ARMY$100,000
US FUND FOR UNICEF$100,000
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$100,000
JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER$75,000
STANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$75,000
CHILDREN'S AID$70,000
BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION$50,000
DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH$50,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$40,000
KOLBE CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL$35,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $298k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LEARNING ALLY: $5k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $3k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $3k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $3k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $3k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $3k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $3k → 11%AT HOME IN DARIEN: $20k → 9%AT HOME IN DARIEN: $8k → 9%AT HOME IN DARIEN: $4k → 9%AT HOME IN DARIEN: $3k → 9%AT HOME IN DARIEN: $3k → 9%AT HOME IN DARIEN: $3k → 9%AT HOME IN DARIEN: $3k → 9%CHILDREN'S AID: $100k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $70k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $25k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $20k → 17%CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $8k → 17%CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $4k → 17%CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $4k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
VA
MD
AZ
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 24 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
3

Total granted

$4.7M
$27k

Still filing today

67%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $497k · revenue +162%
  • Feeding America
    7× · 2017–2023 · $306k · revenue +84%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $305k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY WORLD
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • CR
    COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR JUSTICE
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • NL
    NYU LANGONE HEALTH
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
3
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
4
Access to Advanced Health Institute

Aahi is a nonprofit biotech research institute, bringing together the best experts, technologies, and platforms to create accessible, high-quality products and solutions for harnessing the immune system to alleviate disease.

Health
5
Joslin Clinic Inc

To provide the highest quality specialty medical care to patients with diabetes and diabetes related conditions and to search for a cure.

Health
6
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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7
Winchester Hospital

The mission of winchester hospital is "to care. to heal. to excel." this ethos provides each and every staff member with clear expectations, promoting teamwork and respect while ensuring safety, quality and empathy for patients. winchester…

Health
8
Yale New Haven Health Services Corporation

To support its member healthcare organizations further innovation and excellence in patient care, teaching, and research.

Health
9
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
10
Beth Israel Lahey Health Inc

Beth israel lahey health inc.'s mission is to support its affiliates and their healthcare missions, to improve the health of patients, their families and the communities served and as a network its purpose is to create healthier…

Health
11
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
12
The Danbury Hospital

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stanley M Isaacs Neighborhood Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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

17 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. 17 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $537,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INCMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $305,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $264,000 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INCUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $260,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFInternational Rescue Committee INC: $207,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INCCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $458,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESSALVATION ARMY: $365,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYSTANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $142,000 · OtherSTANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTE…KOLBE CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL: $109,700 · OtherKOLBE CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOLDAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH: $98,000 · OtherDAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCHJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY WILMER EYE INSTITUTE: $60,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $57,000 · OtherSTAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $56,000 · OtherINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $52,400 · Other+5 more: $63,000 · OtherDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $497,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Instit…BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $244,000 · HealthBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUND…JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $232,000 · HealthJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER IN…Norwalk Hospital Foundation: $58,000 · HealthNorwalk Hospital Foundati…+1 more: $22,000 · HealthFeeding America: $305,500 · Food & NutritionTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $231,000 · Human ServicesAT HOME IN DARIENINC: $43,500 · Human ServicesLearning Ally Inc: $23,000 · Human Services
International$1,573,000Other$1,461,100Health$1,053,000Food & Nutrition$305,500Human Services$297,500

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 budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $537,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $497,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $305,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $305,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $264,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $260,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $244,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $232,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $231,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $207,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSTANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $142,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetNorwalk Hospital Foundation: $58,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $52,400 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAT HOME IN DARIENINC: $43,500 over 7y, 6.8% of budgetFAMILY REENTRY INC: $31,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetLearning Ally Inc: $23,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWAVENY CARE CENTER INC: $22,000 over 6y, 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.

  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds STANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Norwalk Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds AT HOME IN DARIENINC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY REENTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds Learning Ally Inc ↗
  • Who funds WAVENY CARE CENTER INC ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCA7.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Burlingame Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burlingame Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 28 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home