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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.

$123k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$181kHuman Services$117kHealth$108kYouth Development$57kEducation$43kPhilanthropy$30kFood & Nutrition$16kHousing & Shelter$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $72k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$818k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Individual grant recipient$5,000
THE ANGEL FOUNDATION$5,000
GET UP STAND UP TO CURE PARALYSIS$5,000
UNITE 2 FIGHT PARALYSIS$5,000
HARVEST FROM THE HEART$5,000
HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION$5,000
THE JK MOVEMENT$3,500
MORE$3,000
ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION$2,000
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO$1,200
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 17%WISHES AND MORE: $5k → 7%WISHES AND MORE: $3k → 7%WISHES AND MORE: $3k → 7%WISHES AND MORE: $1k → 7%WISHES AND MORE: $500 → 7%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $10k → 11%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $4k → 11%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $4k → 11%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $1k → 11%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $1k → 11%SHARING & CARING HANDS: $1k → 11%SHARING & CARING HANDS: $1k → 11%SHARING & CARING HANDS: $1k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $500 → 11%MORE: $3k → 14%SHARING & CARING HANDS: $500 → 11%MORE: $3k → 14%SHARING & CARING HANDS: $500 → 11%MORE: $3k → 14%MORE: $3k → 14%MORE: $2k → 14%BABYS SPACE: $3k → 11%SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 11%PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $5k → 11%PHYLLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 11%YOUTH LINK: $500 → 11%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

MN
IL
WI
NY
OR
CO
OK
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$376k · 32 repeat orgs$257k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
44

Total granted

$376k
$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+4%

Still filing today

69%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • U2
    UNITE 2 FIGHT PARALYSIS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +126%
  • AF
    ANGEL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +19%
  • OL
    OUR LADY OF PEACE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • NS
    NORTH SUBURBAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +80%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
Mercy House Minneapolis
Human Services
2
Children's Health Care

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.

Health
3
The Family Place

Assisting families in shelters to gain more confidence in building future goals that will lead to success of the entire family.

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4
Minnesota Acts Now

Crime and communities violence interve

Crime & Legal
5
Care in Action Minnesota

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…

Human Services
6
Neighborhood House

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…

Community Improvement
7
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

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,…

Philanthropy
8
Family Pathways

Family Pathways works alongside people to enhance lives through a continuum of essential services and, together with community, champions positive social change.

Human Services
9
Washburn Center for Children

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…

Health
10
Tubman

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…

Health
11
Leadership Matters Mn

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.

Education
12
Youthprise

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pacer Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 80 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/50
Grantees still filing
35/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTH SUBURBAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $60,000 · OtherNORTH SUBURBAN CENTER FOR THE ARTSCOOK COUNTY COMMUNITY RADIO (WTIP): $40,000 · OtherCOOK COUNTY COMMUNITY RADIO (WTIP)CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $40,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESMINNESPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $30,000 · OtherMINNESPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTSTPT - TWIN CITIES PBS: $25,400 · OtherTPT - TWIN CITIES PBSTHE BRECK FUND: $20,000 · OtherU OF MN JIM KLOBUCHAR SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $20,000 · OtherGET UP STAND UP TO CURE PARALYSIS: $20,000 · OtherThe JK Movement: $16,500 · Other+43 more: $153,720 · Other+43 moreUNITE 2 FIGHT PARALYSIS: $30,000 · HealthUNITE 2 FIGH…ANGEL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthANGEL FOUNDA…ST MARYS HEALTH CLINICS: $5,000 · HealthST MARYS HEA…HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthHENNEPIN HEA…21 Roots Farm: $3,000 · Health+3 more: $4,500 · Health+3 moreOUR LADY OF PEACE: $19,000 · Human ServicesOUR LADY OF …MORE: $13,500 · Human ServicesMOREWISHES & MORE: $11,500 · Human ServicesWISHES & MOR…Phyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesPhyllis Whea…SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesSABATHANI CO…PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $5,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE RESPO…SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesSHARING AND …BABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW: $3,000 · Human Services+2 more: $600 · Human ServicesMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $15,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $6,000 · Arts & CultureHOPE 4 Youth: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentLIFE HOUSE INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH & FAMILIES DETERMINED TO SUCCEED: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentACHIEVE TWIN CITIES: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION: $5,500 · Civil RightsPACER CENTER INC: $5,000 · Civil RightsWE PUSH FOR PEACE: $5,000 · Civil RightsSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$425,620Health$72,500Human Services$67,100Arts & Culture$21,000Youth Development$20,500Civil Rights$15,500Food & Nutrition$10,000

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 budgetUNITE 2 FIGHT PARALYSIS: $30,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetANGEL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOUR LADY OF PEACE: $19,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe JK Movement: $16,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMORE: $13,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetWISHES & MORE: $11,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE 4 Youth: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOASIS FOR YOUTH: $6,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budget30-DAYS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetThe Lift Garage: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPhyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE THIELEN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLIFE HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPACER CENTER INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWE PUSH FOR PEACE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH & FAMILIES DETERMINED TO SUCCEED: $4,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRESTORING THE PATH: $3,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget21 Roots Farm: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCIRCLE OF PEACE MOVEMENT: $3,000 over 1y, 77% of budgetA Mothers Love Initiative: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaztec Fishing & Outdoors: $2,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetACHIEVE TWIN CITIES: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUNDLES OF LOVE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEMPTY BOWLS COOK COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNORTH BROWARD HOSPITAL DISTRICT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMy Very Own Bed: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIRCH GROVE COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTHLINK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALIGHT: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPONSOR A FAMILY MINNESOTA: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $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 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 SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds HOPE 4 Youth ↗
  • Who funds PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OASIS FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds 30-DAYS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Lift Garage ↗
  • Who funds Phyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE THIELEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds PACER CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds STARTANEW ↗
  • Who funds ST MARYS HEALTH CLINICS ↗
  • Who funds SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Otto Bremer TrustSaint Paul & Minnesot…Mightycause Charitabl…The Richard M Schulze…Catholic Community Fo…Linsmayer James B Fdn…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Walser FoundationOpus FoundationCh Robinson Worldwide…Fr Bigelow Foundation
The Minneapolis FoundationMN35.9× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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How do I get to Burns Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Burns Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 80 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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