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Burningham Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$130kEnvironment$26kInternational$23kArts & Culture$21kEducation$19kReligion$11kFood & Nutrition$9kAnimals$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$487
Median grant
7
States reached
$350k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MYOSITIS ASSOC: $700 → 6%MYOSITIS ASSOCIATION: $100 → 6%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

ID
MT
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
NE
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
DC
LA
TX
FL
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$203k · 48 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
60

Total granted

$203k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+11%

Still filing today

38%
10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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EnvironmentHealthAnimalsInternationalArts & CultureScience & TechOther
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

  • Y
    YOUTHLINC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +35%
  • HF
    HENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +157%
  • AB
    AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $4k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • PC
    PRIMAY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • PC
    PRIMARY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL TOTAL
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • ME
    MORAN EYE CENTER TOTAL
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
National Audubon Society Inc

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).

Environment
3
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
4
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
5
Utah Geological Foundation
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6
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
7
Discover Life in America Inc

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.

Environment
8
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation

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)

Environment
9
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
10
Science Museum of Minnesota

The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."

Arts & Culture
11
Wild Salmon Rivers

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…

Environment
12
The International Dark-Sky Association Inc

Darksky international restores the nighttime environment and protects communities from the harmful effects of light pollution through outreach, advocacy, and conservation.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Clean Energy Alliance Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
20/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MORAN EYE CENTER: $32,000 · OtherMORAN EYE CENTERPRIMARY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $27,021 · OtherPRIMARY CHILDRENS HOSPITALHENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC: $12,870 · OtherHENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INCHUNTSMAN CANCER INSTITUTE: $10,000 · OtherMARSHALL ISLANDS EDUCATION PROJECT: $6,788 · OtherLDS VV7: $6,706 · Other+98 more: $104,731 · Other+98 moreHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthHUNTSMAN CANCER …Wasatch Homeless Health Care: $3,200 · HealthWasatch Homeless…ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA: $2,600 · HealthST LUKE'S HOSPIT…REEL RECOVERY INC: $1,700 · HealthYOUTHLINC: $13,615 · InternationalLifting Hands International: $1,001 · InternationalNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $1,607 · EnvironmentGREAT SALT LAKE AUDUBON: $1,260 · EnvironmentDucks Unlimited Inc: $1,220 · EnvironmentZION NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION: $700 · EnvironmentAMERICAN ORCHID SOCIETY INC: $378 · Environment+1 more: $104 · EnvironmentAMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION: $4,056 · AnimalsBirdability: $200 · AnimalsSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $3,042 · ReligionThe Myositis Association: $800 · Human Services
Other$200,116Health$37,500International$14,616Environment$5,269Animals$4,256Religion$3,042Human Services$800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHLINC: $13,615 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC: $12,870 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION: $4,056 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWasatch Homeless Health Care: $3,200 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $3,042 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA: $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREEL RECOVERY INC: $1,700 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $1,607 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $1,464 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT SALT LAKE AUDUBON: $1,260 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $1,220 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Myositis Association: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZION NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINCLUSION BODY MYOSITIS FOUNDATION INC: $700 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590: $577 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIVING PLANET INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Utah: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ORCHID SOCIETY INC: $378 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBirdability: $200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOLYMPUS FOOD PANTRY: $147 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC: $104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $100 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 HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Sorenson Legacy Found…Larry H Miller and Ga…George S and Dolores …The Community Foundat…The Hullinger Family …Willard L Eccles Char…David Kelby Johnson M…Lawrence & Janet Dee …PatagoniaorgAmerican Express Foun…Shell USA Company Fou…Texas Instruments Fou…
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 120 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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