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Burnham Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EVANS SCHOLAR FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TENTON COUNTY 4-H | $5,500 |
| JAMES MACPHEE SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUND OF JACKSON HOLE | $2,500 |
| SHERMAN LAKE YMCA | $2,500 |
| STREAM FOR A CAUSE INC | $2,000 |
| DYSLEXIA HELP AT THE U OF M | $1,000 |
| MYRTLE HOUSE MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| SAFE PLACE SHELTER | $1,000 |
| MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY | $1,000 |
| PGA REACH AMERICA MI | $1,000 |
| COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION | $750 |
| BATTLE CREEK OPTIMIST CLUB | $500 |
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 (FY18–25, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +53% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 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
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
- CDCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $49k · revenue +195%
Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center8× · 2018–2025 · $41k · revenue +14%- TCTHE CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER INC3× · 2018–2024 · $13k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $11k
- BCBEST CHRISTMAS EVER INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +10%
- ESEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Ensure camp fire minnesota's strong future. with nature as the catalyst, camp fire minnesota energizes youth to discover their spark so their futures glow brighter.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
For all state residents, diverse civic stakeholders and philanthropy, the center for michigan (the center) and its nonprofit newsrooms - bridge michigan and bridgedetroit - make michigan better through high-quality, nonpartisan journalism…
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
Creating healthy communities - together
To receive and administer funds to support the mission of mclaren northern michigan and support programs that enhance the well-being of the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Council of Michigan Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Stream for a Cause Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 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. 31 of the 95 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 CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center ↗
- Who funds BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Bronson Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds Binder Park Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds BEST CHRISTMAS EVER INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT CARMEL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Doug Coombs Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds STREAM FOR A CAUSE INC ↗
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: 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
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 Burnham 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.