Arizona · Private foundation
Burns Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $3.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2024
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,378,290
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Burns Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 27 | $3.6M | 48% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $212k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $228k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $215k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $200k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $198k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $209k | 41% |
| FY2017 | 29 | $180k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collins Family Foundation | $689,145 | 1 | 99% |
| Julie Ann Wrigley Foundation Inc | $689,145 | 1 | 84% |
| Mesalands Community College | $228,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Barrow Neurological Foundation | $135,850 | 7 | 0% |
| Valleywise Health Foundation | $79,575 | 6 | 0% |
| West Texas A&M Univ Foundation | $57,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | $41,085 | 4 | 0% |
| Executive Council Charities | $33,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Idaho Womens Athletic Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Museum Associates | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 60 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Burns Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About Burns Family Foundation
- How much does Burns Family Foundation give?
- Burns Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $3,580,475 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Burns Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (69%), Education (10%), Health (8%).
- Who are Burns Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Collins Family Foundation ($689k), Julie Ann Wrigley Foundation Inc ($689k), Mesalands Community College ($228k).
- Does Burns Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Burns Family 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 Burns Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Thunderbirds Charities, The Rob Walton Foundation.
- Where is Burns Family Foundation based?
- Burns Family Foundation is based in AZ.
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