· Private foundation
Burnham Foundation Inc #0726729 Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of BURNHAM FOUNDATION INC #0726729 NUTTER MCCLENNEN & FISH LLP’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHERN MIDDLESEX REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $10,000 |
| SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| NASHOBA RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LAWRENCE LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| TOWNSEND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $4,000 |
| GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND | $4,000 |
| CAROLINA TIGER RESCUE | $4,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $3,500 |
| VENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY | $3,500 |
| SHUBERT CLUB INC | $3,500 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
| CHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC | $2,400 |
| PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST | $2,000 |
| MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
32 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- NRNASHUA RIVER WATERSHED ASSOC INC5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +151%
- SCSANTA CATALINA SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +34%
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $24k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- NMNORTHERN MIDDLESEX REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $9k
- DIDANA-FARBER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +192%
- EEEyes Ears Nose and Paws Incone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -24%
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 mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Our mission is to spark people's curiosity to explore, steward, and find peace and joy in nature. in service to this, norman bird sanctuary inspires, builds, and engages a community of stewards who preserve, protect, enjoy, and learn from…
To provide all administrative and other services and support required or contemplated by chapter 92b of the massachusetts general laws to the franklin park zoo and the walter d. stone memorial zoo, to any other agency or entity referenced…
The mission of the center is to instill a life-long respect and affection for nature in all people through research and education; to advance a scientific and public understanding of our coastal ecosystems and the need to protect them; and…
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
It is the mission of the seacoast science center to spark curiosity, enhance understanding, and inspire conservation of our blue planet. the center's programming and exhibits encourage visitors and other program participants to recognize…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.
Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Toys for Tots Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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 44 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 42 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 NASHUA RIVER WATERSHED ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA TIGER RESCUE ↗
- Who funds VENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
- Who funds MANOMET INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Wright Museum of World War II ↗
- Who funds FULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PEPPERELL AID FROM COMMUNITY TO HOME OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds TOWNSEND ECUMENICAL OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds APPLEWILD SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds DANA-FARBER INC ↗
- Who funds SCHUBERT CLUB THE ↗
- Who funds PEPPERELL 4TH OF JULY COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds DUCKS FOR CANCER ↗
- Who funds Eyes Ears Nose and Paws 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: Fidelity Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Foundation Inc #0726729 Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Nashua River Watershed Assoc Inc — 54% of income from government
- Townsend Ecumenical Outreach Inc — 24% of income from government
- Manomet Inc — 12% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fuller Craft Museum Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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