· Private foundation
Burroughs Memorial Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| SHELTER OF FLINT | $7,000 |
| CARRIAGE TOWN MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $6,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION | $6,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF EASTERN MICHIGAN | $6,000 |
| COMMUNITIES FIRST INC | $2,000 |
| YWCA | $2,000 |
| GENESEE COUNTY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC | $2,000 |
| FLINT DIAPER BANK | $2,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FLINT | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC | $1,000 |
| YMCA | $1,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT | $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 (FY20–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- CTCarriage Town Ministries3× · 2022–2025 · $21k · revenue +22%
- TFTHE FLINT DIAPER BANK INC5× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +7%
- EPELE'S PLACE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2021 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
- GCGenesee County Habitat for Humanityone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -29%
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 promote the common economic interests of all the commercial enterprises in the Genesee County, Michigan community. The Organization strives to enhance the business climate in the area and advocates for public policy that supports…
Improve the health of genesee county residents. improve the quality and cost effectiveness of the health care system in our community.
To support and benefit the community foundation of greater flint. the organization will address a wide variety of community needs in greater flint, and its immediate priority is to provide aid to those affected by the flint water crisis.
The flint center for educational excellence is building an educational ecosystem that works for all flint kids by providing programs. research, and advocacy that ensure flint kids, their families, schools, and communities thrive.
Housed in flint, michigan, we are a non-profit with a mission to relieve the innovator of the entrepreneurial burden. we know entrepreneurship can be difficult, and that's why we're here to help. as a community of student professionals,…
The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
The flint river council shall promote, within the territory covered by the charter from time to time granted it by the boy scouts of america and in accordance with the congressional charter, bylaws, and rules and regulations of the boy…
Michigan farm bureau (mfb) is a member directed agricultural organization whose purpose is to represent, protect, and enhance the business, economic, social, and educational interests of our members located throughout the state of michigan.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ele's Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 21% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 47 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 UNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds Carriage Town Ministries ↗
- Who funds SHELTER OF FLINT INC ↗
- Who funds Genesee Area Focus Fund ↗
- Who funds THE FLINT DIAPER BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GENESEE COUNTY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHERLY INTERCESSION ↗
- Who funds Communities First Inc ↗
- Who funds Faith Foundation Resources ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Music ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF GREATER FLINT ↗
- Who funds FLINT JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Greater Flint ↗
- Who funds Genesee County Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Flint Cultural Center Corporation ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
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: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust · Merkley Charitable Trust · Community Foundation of Greater Flint · The Hagerman Foundation · Nartel Family Foundation · The Whiting Foundation · Anna Paulina Foundation · Ruth Mott Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Serra Foundation · Child Welfare Society of Flint
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 Burroughs Memorial Trust 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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