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Burnett 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.

$7.4M
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$2.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$110MHealth$39MYouth Development$25MAnimals$8.1MEducation$2.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.3MRecreation & Sports$1.1MEnvironment$1.0MOther$0
02FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,340,801
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM$2,299,652
AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE FOUNDATION$1,379,791
FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION$1,340,801
FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION$958,851
KIMBELL ART MUSEUM$919,861
NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM & HALL OF FAME$459,930
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 3% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER: $5.8M → 11%CALVARY HOSPITAL: $2.0M → 28%EVENT FACILITIES FORT WORTH INC: $12.5M → 11%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $363k → 16%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $250k → 22%GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM: $23.0M → 12%ARTESIA AQUATIC CENTER FOUNDATION: $500k → 13%EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER: $5.0M → 11%EVENT FACILITIES FORT WORTH INC: $12.5M → 11%GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM: $8.3M → 12%NATIONAL COWBOY & WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM: $1.0M → 16%KIMBELL ART MUSEUM: $993k → 11%GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM: $4.7M → 12%NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM & HALL OF FAME: $460k → 16%EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER: $500k → 11%KIMBELL ART MUSEUM: $920k → 11%GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM: $4.2M → 12%NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM & HALL OF FAME: $418k → 16%FORT WORTH REPORT: $350k → 11%GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM: $3.0M → 12%GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM: $2.3M → 12%GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM: $1.5M → 12%SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION FOR THE GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM: $757k → 12%SAFE CITY COMMISSION: $1.1M → 11%SAFE CITY COMMISSION: $1.1M → 11%FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $24.3M → 11%FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $8.6M → 11%MPA FOUNDATION: $3.5M → 11%FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY: $2.8M → 11%MPA FOUNDATION: $2.5M → 11%FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION: $2.1M → 11%FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION: $1.3M → 11%FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION: $1.3M → 11%FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION: $1.3M → 11%FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION: $1.3M → 11%FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION: $1.3M → 11%FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $959k → 11%FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION: $600k → 11%NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM & HALL OF FAME: $275k → 11%NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM & HALL OF FAME: $275k → 11%NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM & HALL OF FAME: $275k → 11%NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM & HALL OF FAME: $275k → 11%FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY: $250k → 11%FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY: $250k → 11%FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY: $250k → 11%TCU - AWM SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $25.0M → 11%TCU - SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $1.0M → 11%TCU - ENERGY INSTITUTE: $1.0M → 11%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

NY
CT
CA
AZ
NM
OK
TX
FL
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$158M · 29 repeat orgs$32M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2023, 23 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
19

Total granted

$158M
$32M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+26%

Still filing today

72%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthAnimalsCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Center
    3× · 2017–2022 · $11M · revenue +94%
  • FW
    FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $9.1M · revenue +45%
  • AQ
    AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $8.1M · revenue +133% · 50% of their budget

Funded once

  • TA
    TCU - AWM SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2022 · $25M
  • CH
    CALVARY HOSPITAL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2.0M · revenue -3%
  • TE
    TCU - ENERGY INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2018 · $1.0M
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
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
2
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art

The amon carter museum of western art was established through the generosity of amon g. carter sr. (1879-1955) to house his collection of more than 400 paintings and sculptures by fredric remingtion and charles m. russell, to collect,…

Arts & Culture
3
Tyler Museum of Art

Educational and cultural center to enrich lives through collection, study, exhibition, interpretation and celebration of visual arts.

Arts & Culture
4
Fort Worth Modern Art Museum Association

The fort worth modern art museum association was established to solicit and receive donations for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, and to carry out the purposes of the fort worth art association.

Arts & Culture
5
The Museum of Western Art

The Museum of Western Art in the Texas Hill Country is dedicated to excellence in the collection, preservation and display of Western art.

Arts & Culture
6
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
7
National Western Art Foundation Briscoe Western Art Museum

Briscoe Western Art Museum is a welcoming institution dedicated to celebrating the art, history and culture of the American West. Its gallery of paintings, sculptures, photographs and meticulously crafted artifacts are open to the public…

Arts & Culture
8
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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9
Fort Wayne Museum of Art Inc

The fort wayne museum of art will collect, preserve and present american and related art to engage and educate broad and diverse audiences throughout the region and add value to their lives.

Arts & Culture
10
Texas Flying Legends Museum
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11
Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.

Community Improvement
12
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers' Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Artesia Aquatic Center Foundation. 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

35 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. 35 of the 48 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
24/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM: $47,053,284 · Arts & CultureGEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUMFORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $33,784,726 · Arts & CultureFORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION ENDOWMENT FOUNDATIONFORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION: $9,090,801 · Arts & CultureFORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATIONMPA FOUNDATION: $6,000,000 · Arts & CultureMPA FOUNDATIONFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY: $3,500,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $4,077,349 · Arts & CultureTCU - AWM SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $25,000,000 · OtherTCU - AWM SCHOOL OF M…KIMBELL ART MUSEUM: $1,913,314 · OtherTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY: $1,500,000 · Other+19 more: $8,449,466 · Other+19 moreEVENT FACILITIES FORT WORTH INC: $25,000,000 · Youth DevelopmentEVENT FACILITI…Eisenhower Medical Center: $11,286,823 · HealthCALVARY HOSPITAL INC: $2,004,860 · HealthAMERICAN QUARTER HORSE FOUNDATION: $8,124,700 · Animals+1 more: $12,151 · AnimalsSafe City Commission: $2,150,000 · Crime & LegalBaylor College of Medicine: $363,000 · EducationTexas A&M Foundation: $250,000 · EducationSANTA FE ART INSTITUTE INC: $225,000 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $196,738 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$103,506,160Other$36,862,780Youth Development$25,000,000Health$13,291,683Animals$8,136,851Crime & Legal$2,150,000Education$1,044,738

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM: $47,053,284 over 7y, 53% of budgetFORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $33,784,726 over 3y, 81% of budgetEVENT FACILITIES FORT WORTH INC: $25,000,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $11,286,823 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION: $9,090,801 over 7y, 13% of budgetAMERICAN QUARTER HORSE FOUNDATION: $8,124,700 over 7y, 50% of budgetMPA FOUNDATION: $6,000,000 over 2y, 98% of budgetFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY: $3,500,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetSafe City Commission: $2,150,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetCALVARY HOSPITAL INC: $2,004,860 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM: $1,100,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetNATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC: $1,100,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetRanching Heritage Association: $1,100,000 over 2y, 88% of budgetTHE O'KEEFFE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $757,164 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTEXAS & SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE RAISERS' FOUNDATION: $640,113 over 5y, 18% of budgetARTESIA AQUATIC CENTER FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC: $400,039 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetFort Worth Opera Association Inc: $400,033 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetSITE SANTA FE: $400,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetFORT WORTH REPORT: $367,204 over 3y, 31% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $363,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetXAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL: $300,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFORT WORTH CHAMBER DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $260,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKimbell Art Foundation: $235,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSANTA FE ART INSTITUTE INC: $225,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $196,738 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF GOD MINISTRIES LTD: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $12,151 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

Bnsf Railway Foundati…Amon G Carter Foundat…Thomas M Helen McKee …Leo Potishman Foundat…Sid W Richardson Foun…Wm & Catherine Bryce …Barbara Ann Baldridge…Mary Potishman Lard T…R4 FoundationTj Brown & Ca Lupton …Robert D and Catherin…The Bratton Family Fo…
Bnsf Railway FoundationTX29× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bnsf Railway Foundation · Amon G Carter Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002 · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Wm & Catherine Bryce Memorial Fund Xxxxx3001 · Barbara Ann Baldridge Foundation We453 · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · R4 Foundation · Tj Brown & Ca Lupton Foundation · Robert D and Catherine R Alexander Foundation · The Bratton 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Burnett Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burnett Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • New Britain Museum of American Art Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Burnett Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Burnett Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 48 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
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
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