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Burns Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SS PHILIP & JAMES SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE- DENVER | $3,000 |
| SOME (SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT) | $2,000 |
| COLORADO I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE- DENVER | $2,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF METRO DENVER | $1,500 |
| FEEDING AMERICA - FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $1,500 |
| GIRLS INC METRO DENVER | $1,500 |
| BOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA CHESTER COUNTY COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES APPEAL PHILADELPHIA | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | $1,000 |
| SECOND CHANCE CENTER | $1,000 |
| SAVE THE STORKS | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES | $1,000 |
| NORTH STAR OF CHESTER COUNTY | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- CDCOLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $9k · revenue +26%
- BCBIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS4× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +6%
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER4× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIE CHARITIES APPEAL PHILADELPHIAone grant, 2022 · $1k
- CCCHESTER COUNTY COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OR AMERICAone grant, 2021 · $1k
MARCH OF DIMES INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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.
Urban peak helps youth experiencing homelessness and youth at risk of becoming homeless overcome real life challenges by providing essential services and a supportive community, empowering them to become self-sufficient adults.
Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.
Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…
In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…
Provides residential and community services to promote long-term well-being and success for young people and families who experience disruption in their lives.
To end family homelessness by restoring hope and rebuilding lives, so no child will ever have to sleep on the streets.
We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support.
Mission: leading and advancing collaboration to end homelessness in our region. vision: dedicated to everyone in the metro region having a safe, stable place to call home. values: committed to core values that bring people home: -…
Safe shores provides survivor-centered intervention, hope and healing for children and families affected by abuse, trauma and violence in the district of columbia, and works to prevent and end child abuse and neglect through promising…
Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…
Girl scouts of colorado prepares girls and adults to create unique leadership paths, ignite change, and share a worldwide sisterhood through traditions and new experiences. girl scouts builds girls of courage, confidence, and character,…
Youth emergency services (yes) provides housing and support to youth experiencing instability, crisis, and homelessness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Star of Chester County and the most unlike its peers is Communities of Don Guanella and Divine Providence. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 30 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 International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds BIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds A PRECIOUS CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds CURE4CAM INC ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN CHRISTIAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Catholic Social Services ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Save the Storks ↗
- Who funds SOS OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Communities of Don Guanella and Divine Providence ↗
- Who funds ANDREW L HICKS JR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Second Chance 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Adolph Coors Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Anschutz Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Inc 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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