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Burrell 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.

$50k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
30
Grants FY2025
26
Organizations funded FY2024
27%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$7,000
Organizations funded a year
26 to 31
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$622k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Burrell Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Food & NutritionArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
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 arriving30$50k20%
FY202426$46k27%
FY202330$54k17%
FY202231$51k26%
FY202127$41kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$77kEducation$49kHealth$34kFood & Nutrition$19kHousing & Shelter$17kAnimals$13kReligion$8kEnvironment$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
CA
CO
VA
AZ
DC
AL
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 34 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($106k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Burrell Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLoyola Marymount University: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAce Mentor Program of Colorado: $13,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetDenver Zoological Foundation: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRaise the Future: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc: $6,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOutreach United Resource Center Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVolunteers for Outdoor Colorado: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGrowing Home Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding Colorado: $5,284 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHeritage Camps for Adoptive Families Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFood Bank of the Rockies: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoulder Shelter for the Homeless Inc: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNurse-Family Partnership: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAdoption Institute of Colorado: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetInvest in Kids: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHope House of Colorado: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetReach Out and Read Inc: $1,992 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThree Square: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPorchlight a Family Justice Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGive Kids the World Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGrowing Gardens of Boulder County: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRalston House: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Alliance to End Homelessness: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetListen Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAfrican Wildlife Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoulder Ballet: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Dumb Friends League: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Rescue Mission: $500 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 30.

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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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO32.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Denver Children's Foundation · Cars for Charity Inc · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Schlessman Foundation 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 Burrell Family Foundation

How much does Burrell Family Foundation give?
Burrell Family Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $49,671 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 31 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Burrell Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (32%), Education (20%), Health (14%).
Who are Burrell Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Loyola Marymount University ($30k), Ace Mentor Program of Colorado ($13k), Denver Zoological Foundation ($12k).
Does Burrell Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Burrell 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 Burrell Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Anschutz Family Foundation, The Denver Foundation.
Where is Burrell Family Foundation based?
Burrell Family Foundation is based in CO.

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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