· Private foundation
Burnett 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DES MOINES SYMPHONY | $100,000 |
| WWPF | $50,000 |
| VARIETY CLUB OF IOWA | $17,500 |
| CHILDSERVE | $10,000 |
| BLANK PARK ZOO | $10,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA | $5,000 |
| B WELL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CREATIVE EXPRESSION WORKSHOPS | $2,500 |
| FOOD BANK OF IOWA | $2,500 |
| JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| AGAPE | $1,000 |
| WATER WORKS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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
- BPBLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC6× · 2018–2024 · $291k · revenue +71%
- DMDES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION3× · 2017–2024 · $210k · revenue +61%
- FBFOOD BANK OF IOWA6× · 2019–2024 · $170k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- IIPTVone grant, 2023 · $25k
- CICENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +10%
- AHANAWIM HOUSING INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +34%
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.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
To lead the community wide effort to end hunger in eastern iowa and western illinois. we will do this by leveraging partnerships to help people in need to stabilize their lives, engaging the public on hunger issues, advocating on behalf of…
Exploring, explaining and celebrating the world of plants.
The organization's mission is to address the immediate needs of sick, injured, and orphaned wild birds, with the goal to return them to the wild and help educate and bring awareness to the global issue that birds are dissappearing at an…
Building iowa's values by recognizing and responding to significantchanges in iowa - those that fundamentally affect families and communities.
Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Iowa Shelter & Services and the most unlike its peers is World Food Prize Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 33 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 BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds CHILDSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ANAWIM HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET GUTHRIE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BRENTON ARBORETUM INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds B WELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds EMPLOYEE & FAMILY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds MIND AND SPIRIT COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds AGAPE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds World Food Prize 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: Meredith Corporation Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · John Ruan Foundation Trust · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · Ita Group Foundation · Bookey Family Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Obrien Fitzpatrick Foundation · Windsor Charitable Foundation · Thomas & Linda Koehn Foundation
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 Burnett 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.
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.