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Burroughs Memorial Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$56k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
19
Organizations funded FY2024
11%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 21
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$537k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Burroughs Memorial Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHealthHousing & ShelterEducationOther
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$56k24%
FY202419$81k11%
FY20239$17k44%
FY202219$45k53%
FY202118$52k28%
FY202021$48kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$72kHuman Services$61kPhilanthropy$56kFood & Nutrition$38kYouth Development$23kCommunity Improvement$13kHealth$9kCrime & Legal$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($113k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Burroughs Memorial Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of Genesee County: $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFood Bank of Eastern Michigan: $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCarriage Town Ministries: $21,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetShelter of Flint Inc: $17,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGenesee Area Focus Fund: $13,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe Flint Diaper Bank Inc: $9,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetGenesee County Free Medical Clinic: $7,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEle's Place Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMotherly Intercession: $6,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Greater Flint: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFlint Institute of Music: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFaith Foundation Resources: $4,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCommunities First Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMiracle League of Greater Flint: $3,500 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetYMCA of Greater Flint: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuscular Dystrophy Association Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Mott Community College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGenesee County Habitat for Humanity: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWithout Walls Outreach: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYoung Life: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKettering University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlint Cultural Center Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Flint Children's Museum: $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 24.

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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.

Charles Stewart Mott FoundationMI43.3× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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How do I get to Burroughs Memorial Trust?

Find your warmest path to Burroughs Memorial Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Burroughs Memorial Trust

How much does Burroughs Memorial Trust give?
Burroughs Memorial Trust reported 17 grants totaling $56,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Burroughs Memorial Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (24%), Human Services (20%), Philanthropy (19%).
Who are Burroughs Memorial Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: United Way of Genesee County ($35k), Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ($23k), Carriage Town Ministries ($21k).
Does Burroughs Memorial Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Burroughs Memorial Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Burroughs Memorial Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust, Merkley Charitable Trust.
Where is Burroughs Memorial Trust based?
Burroughs Memorial Trust is based in OH.

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 47 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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