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Burnham Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$61k
Granted FY2026still arriving
27
Grants FY2026still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$108kHuman Services$80kHealth$71kPhilanthropy$35kHousing & Shelter$27kYouth Development$19kAnimals$10kPublic Benefit$4kOther$0
02FY2026 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k26 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$818k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HELEN'S PINK SKY FOUNDATION$10,000
SAFE PLACE SHELTER$7,375
JACKSON YOUTH HOCKEY$5,000
CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN$5,000
SHERMAN LAKE YMCA$4,750
COMMUNITY FOUND OF JACKSON HOLE$3,500
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNATION$3,000
CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER$3,000
UOFM - EVENT ON MAIN FUNDRAISER$2,500
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF AMERICA$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
BATTLE CREEK AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS$1,500
THE FERRIS FOUNDATION$1,000
BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000
KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–26, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA: $12k → 12%CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $11k → 14%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $250 → 21%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA: $8k → 12%CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $250 → 21%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA: $5k → 12%CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA: $5k → 12%CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA: $4k → 12%CHAD TOUGH FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA: $4k → 12%CHAD TOUGH FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA: $4k → 12%CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA: $3k → 12%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA: $2k → 12%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA: $500 → 12%STARR COMMONWEALTH: $1k → 14%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $500 → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $500 → 14%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $500 → 14%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $500 → 14%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

MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
WY
MO
MD
KS
OK
GA
TX
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$301k · 37 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2026, 24 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
55

Total granted

$301k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+6%

Still filing today

38%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • CD
    CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $49k · revenue +195%
  • Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center
    9× · 2018–2026 · $46k · revenue +14%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER INC
    4× · 2018–2026 · $16k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $11k
  • MC
    MOUNT CARMEL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -5%
  • BC
    BEST CHRISTMAS EVER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +10%
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
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
2
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

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.…

Community Improvement
3
Business Leaders for Michigan

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.…

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4
The Minnesota Camp Fire Foundation

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.

Youth Development
5
Mymichigan Health Foundation

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…

Health
6
The Center for Michigan

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…

Public Benefit
7
The University of Montana Foundation

The university of montana foundation inspires philanthropic support to enhance excellence and opportunity at the university of montana.

Education
8
Michigan State Medical Society Foundation

To advance the field of health for the public good.

—
9
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

—
10
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

—
11
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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12
Kalamazoo College

The mission of kalamazoo college is to prepare its graduates to better understand, live sucessfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world. as a highly selective, nationally renowened…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Council of Michigan Foundations; 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.
04the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 107 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
26/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EVANS SCHOLAR FOUNDATION: $31,500 · OtherEVANS SCHOLAR FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY FOUND OF JACKSON HOLE: $20,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUND OF JACKSON HOLETENTON COUNTY 4-H: $17,801 · OtherTENTON COUNTY 4-HTHE CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER INC: $16,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER INCIndividual grant recipient: $16,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAFE PLACE SHELTER: $11,875 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,500 · OtherHELENS PINK SKY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other+79 more: $129,980 · Other+79 moreCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $48,500 · Human ServicesCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FO…Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center: $45,980 · Human ServicesSherman Lake YMCA Outdoo…+3 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesBATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,500 · PhilanthropyBATTLE CRE…COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS: $6,940 · PhilanthropyCOUNCIL OF…GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $6,500 · PhilanthropyGRAND TETO…EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $6,000 · PhilanthropyEDUCATION …COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $2,200 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY …STREAM FOR A CAUSE INC: $2,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyBronson Health Foundation: $11,750 · HealthPINK RIBBON RIDERS: $500 · Health+1 more: $250 · HealthBinder Park Zoological Society Inc: $10,500 · AnimalsJACKSON YOUTH HOCKEY: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Doug Coombs Foundation: $4,500 · Youth DevelopmentCATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $5,000 · Religion
Other$264,156Human Services$96,980Philanthropy$41,140Health$12,500Animals$10,500Youth Development$9,500Religion$5,000

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 budgetCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $48,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center: $45,980 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBronson Health Foundation: $11,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBinder Park Zoological Society Inc: $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $7,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS: $6,940 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMOUNT CARMEL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBEST CHRISTMAS EVER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJACKSON YOUTH HOCKEY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Doug Coombs Foundation: $4,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $2,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMYRTLE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSTREAM FOR A CAUSE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDRIVE FOR LIFE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBrass Band of Battle Creek: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALADIN CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEDAL THE CAUSE: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPINK RIBBON RIDERS: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLocal Journalism Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $200 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.

  • Who funds CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 MOUNT CARMEL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BEST CHRISTMAS EVER INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON YOUTH HOCKEY ↗
  • Who funds The Doug Coombs Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ↗

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.

WK Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek Communit…Santo Maria Frank & J…Feldpausch FoundationTyler-Little Family F…United Way of South C…Kalamazoo Community F…Preston S and Barbara…Miller FoundationJohn E Fetzer Institu…Consumers Energy Foun…Kolassa Family Founda…
WK Kellogg FoundationMI25.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Burnham Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burnham Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s 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
    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 107 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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