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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $68k
- $250k+4 grants · $3.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,378,290 |
| COLLINS FAMILY FOUNDATION | $689,145 |
| JULIE ANN WRIGLEY FOUNDATION | $689,145 |
| BIDEGAIN FAMILY FOUNDATION | $689,145 |
| PAWS AND CLAWS | $15,000 |
| SUN DEVIL CLUB | $11,500 |
| VALLEY WISE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| VEGA CHRISTS COMMUNITY CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CENTER STREET METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| DIABETES FOUNDATION OF THE HIGH PLA | $10,000 |
| NEW MEXICO 4-H | $8,000 |
| NEW MEXICO BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS | $7,500 |
| SKYLINE THERAPY SERVICES | $7,500 |
| LA COSTA CANYON HIGH SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| SANTA ROSA CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS | $7,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +62% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.5M 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
- BNBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $136k · revenue +100%
- VHVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $80k · revenue +370%
- WTWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $57k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- PHPALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +28%
- HCHARRINGTON CANCER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k
- VCVEGA CHRISTS COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
To advance hope, healing and the best healthcare for children and their families.
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.
Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.
To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.
The lucile packard foundation for children's health is here to unlock philanthropy to transform health for all kids and moms, in northern california and around the world. our foundation raises funds for child and maternal health at lucile…
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Improving health, healing people.
Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.
The children's clinics provides a family centered comprehensive medical home to meet the special needs of children and families.
Phoenix art museum creates spaces of exchange and belonging for all audiences through dynamic exhibitions, collections, and experiences with art. this mission is supported by seven strategic pillars:(continued on schedule o)1. be a space…
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valleywise Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Okoboji Foundation. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 36% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 119 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 COLLINS FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JULIE ANN WRIGLEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds Idaho Womens Athletic Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds C W AND DEE MCMULLEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARBS DOG RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds PALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds PAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC ARNOLDS PARK INC ↗
- Who funds CATTLEGROWERS FOUNDATION 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: Arizona Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · The Rob Walton Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · American Express Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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.
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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