· Private foundation
Burningham Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARSHALL ISLANDS EDUCATION PROJECT | $6,788 |
| YOUTHLINC | $5,473 |
| PRIMARY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| ST LUKES HOSPITAL | $2,600 |
| MORAN EYE CENTER | $2,000 |
| CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DA | $1,625 |
| PBS | $1,200 |
| LIFTING HANDS INTERNATIONAL | $1,001 |
| RED BUTTE GARDEN | $1,000 |
| UTAH NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| LEWIS CLARK TRAILS HERITAGE | $571 |
| HENRYS FORK FOUNDATION | $550 |
| Individual grant recipient | $532 |
| UTAH FOOD BANK | $487 |
| UNITED WAY | $467 |
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 (FY24–25, $800) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +36% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 10 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- YYOUTHLINC7× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +35%
- HFHENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +146%
- ABAMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION6× · 2018–2024 · $4k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- PCPRIMAY CHILDRENS HOSPITALone grant, 2024 · $6k
- PCPRIMARY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL TOTALone grant, 2023 · $5k
- IFINTERMOUNTAIN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Dlia will develop a model for research in biodiversity and will use the knowledge to develop and disseminate information to encourage the discovery, understanding, preservation, and enjoyment of natural resources.
We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
To conserve functioning salmon/steelhead eco-system at watershed levels, integrate angling activities with basic scientific research, collect raw data, monitor environmental functions, salmon/steelhead population dynamics, public…
Darksky international restores the nighttime environment and protects communities from the harmful effects of light pollution through outreach, advocacy, and conservation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Clean Energy Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Inclusion Body Myositis Foundation 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 40 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 120 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.
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- Who funds YOUTHLINC ↗
- Who funds HENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Wasatch Homeless Health Care ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA ↗
- Who funds REEL RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GREAT SALT LAKE AUDUBON ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited 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: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · The Hullinger Family Foundation · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Patagoniaorg · American Express Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Texas Instruments 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 Burningham 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.