Utah · 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.
- $30k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $487
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,788
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $350k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Burningham Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $30k | 37% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $35k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $31k | 52% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $28k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $32k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $29k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $28k | 54% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $25k | 61% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huntsman Cancer Foundation | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Youthlinc | $13,615 | 7 | 0% |
| Henrys Fork Foundation Inc | $12,870 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Utah | $5,600 | 2 | n/a |
| American Birding Association | $4,056 | 6 | 0% |
| Alpine School District | $3,492 | 4 | n/a |
| Wasatch Homeless Health Care | $3,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $3,042 | 4 | 0% |
| St Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Pa | $2,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Reel Recovery Inc | $1,700 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 85 recipients with no EIN on record ($170k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Burningham 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: 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
How this is measured
About Burningham Foundation
- How much does Burningham Foundation give?
- Burningham Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $30,494 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Burningham Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (49%), Environment (10%), International (9%).
- Who are Burningham Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Huntsman Cancer Foundation ($30k), Youthlinc ($14k), Henrys Fork Foundation Inc ($13k).
- Does Burningham Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Burningham Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Burningham Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sorenson Legacy Foundation, Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation, George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation.
- Where is Burningham Foundation based?
- Burningham Foundation is based in UT.
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