Michigan · Private foundation
Burnham Family Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $61k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2026
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 28
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 6
- Total assets, FY2026
- $818k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 33% of the organizations Burnham Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 23 | $53k | 43% |
| FY2025 | 21 | $52k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $59k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $41k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $50k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $34k | 62% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $31k | 56% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $31k | 48% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chadtough Defeat Dipg Foundation | $48,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center | $45,980 | 9 | 0% |
| The Children's Learning Center Inc | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Binder Park Zoological Society Inc | $10,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Helens Pink Sky Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Michigan | $7,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Council of Michigan Foundations | $6,940 | 7 | 0% |
| Grand Teton National Park Foundation | $6,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Education Foundation of Jackson Hole | $6,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Mount Carmel Educational Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 68 recipients with no EIN on record ($208k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Burnham Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: WK Kellogg Foundation · Battle Creek Community Foundation · Santo Maria Frank & John Zanetti Foundation · Feldpausch Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Preston S and Barbara J Parish Foundation · Miller Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Consumers Energy Foundation · Kolassa Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Burnham Family Foundation
- How much does Burnham Family Foundation give?
- Burnham Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $60,525 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 28 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Burnham Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (28%), Human Services (21%), Health (19%).
- Who are Burnham Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2026: Chadtough Defeat Dipg Foundation ($49k), Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center ($46k), The Children's Learning Center Inc ($16k).
- Does Burnham Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Burnham Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Burnham Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include WK Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek Community Foundation, Santo Maria Frank & John Zanetti Foundation.
- Where is Burnham Family Foundation based?
- Burnham Family Foundation is based in MI.
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