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Burns Legacy Foundation co John Neal

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.

$165k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
19%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 23
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$3.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Burns Legacy Foundation co John Neal funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving17$165k35%
FY202416$207k19%
FY202313$137k31%
FY202213$163k8%
FY20219$97k0%
FY202015$156k40%
FY201923$254k48%
FY201818$220k33%
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$382kHealth$292kHuman Services$227kCivil Rights$198kReligion$113kEmployment$95kInternational$50kYouth Development$50kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
IA
OH
PA
CA
KY
VA
AZ
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Waukegan To College NFP$103,00091%
Imerman Angels$80,00071%
Mikeroweworks Foundation$75,00061%
Clearbrook$71,01640%
Alexian Brothers Health System$70,00050%
The Salvation Army$65,0002n/a
Literacy Volunteers Fox Valley$56,00087%
Team Rubicon Inc$50,00040%
Sharing Center Inc$41,50072%
Friends of the Folds of Honor Foundation$35,00030%
Show all 25 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($836k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Burns Legacy Foundation co John Neal supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWaukegan To College NFP: $103,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetImerman Angels: $80,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetMikeroweworks Foundation: $75,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetClearbrook: $71,016 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAlexian Brothers Health System: $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLiteracy Volunteers Fox Valley: $56,000 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetTeam Rubicon Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSharing Center Inc: $41,500 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetFriends of the Folds of Honor Foundation: $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNorthern Illinois Food Bank: $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Courageous of Iowa: $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope for the Day: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBrooklyn Public Library: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKenosha Welcome Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNational Hospice Foundation: $3,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Mpn Research Foundation: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCulinary Care: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGreater Chicago Food Depository: $2,961 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKenosha Human Development Services Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

AbbVie FoundationIL18.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

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About Burns Legacy Foundation co John Neal

How much does Burns Legacy Foundation co John Neal give?
Burns Legacy Foundation co John Neal reported 17 grants totaling $165,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Burns Legacy Foundation co John Neal fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Health (18%), Human Services (14%).
Who are Burns Legacy Foundation co John Neal's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Waukegan To College NFP ($103k), Imerman Angels ($80k), Mikeroweworks Foundation ($75k).
Does Burns Legacy Foundation co John Neal fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Burns Legacy Foundation co John Neal 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 Legacy Foundation co John Neal?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
Where is Burns Legacy Foundation co John Neal based?
Burns Legacy Foundation co John Neal is based in IL.

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 53 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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