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Burns Family 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COOK COUNTY COMMUNITY RADIO (WTIP) | $40,000 |
| TPT - TWIN CITIES PBS | $12,000 |
| THE BRECK FUND | $10,000 |
| U OF MN JIM KLOBUCHAR SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $10,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $7,500 |
| THE ANGEL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HARVEST FROM THE HEART | $5,000 |
| GET UP STAND UP TO CURE PARALYSIS | $5,000 |
| UNITE 2 FIGHT PARALYSIS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THE JK MOVEMENT | $3,500 |
| MORE | $3,000 |
| ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO | $1,200 |
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 (FY20–25, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- U2UNITE 2 FIGHT PARALYSIS6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +126%
- AFANGEL FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +19%
- OLOUR LADY OF PEACE5× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- NSNORTH SUBURBAN CENTER FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +80%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
- SHSECOND HARVEST HEARTLANDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +31%
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.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Assisting families in shelters to gain more confidence in building future goals that will lead to success of the entire family.
Crime and communities violence interve
Our mission is to enhance the quality of life of children who have experienced abuse or neglect, strengthen families and prevent childhood maltreatment, by providing timely crucial support that meets the basic needs of local families and…
Since 1897, when the women of mount zion temple created a safe haven for jewish refugees fleeing persecution in russia, neighborhood house has been a stronghold in the st. paul community, helping all people in need. a welcoming presence…
Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…
Family Pathways works alongside people to enhance lives through a continuum of essential services and, together with community, champions positive social change.
Washburn Center for Children diagnose and treats children in their social, emotional or behavioral development so that they grow into their full potential through therapeutic and healing services that includes their families in a setting…
Tubman is a multi-service agency with nearly 50 years of experience providing crisis and support services, formed from the merger of chrysalis, a center for women; harriet tubman center; family violence network; and eldercare rights…
Leadership matters mn is focused on advancing a policy agenda that places working minnesotans first. we support economic growth, job creation and equitable tax and education policies that will allow every minnesotan to thrive.
Youthprise is a nonprofit intermediary that invests in the future of Minnesota by investing in youth. Youthprise's mission is to increase equity with and for Minnesota's indigenous, low-income, and racially diverse youth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pacer Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Empty Bowls Cook County. 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 25 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 80 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 NORTH SUBURBAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds UNITE 2 FIGHT PARALYSIS ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF PEACE ↗
- Who funds The JK Movement ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds MORE ↗
- Who funds WISHES & MORE ↗
- Who funds HOPE 4 Youth ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds OASIS FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Phyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds LIFE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds The Lift Garage ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE THIELEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS HEALTH CLINICS ↗
- Who funds WE PUSH FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACER CENTER 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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Linsmayer James B Fdn Tr-Main · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Opus Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Fr Bigelow 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 Burns Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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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