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Burrows Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$434k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
38
Grants FY2024
35
Organizations funded FY2023
6%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$114,000
Organizations funded a year
32 to 48
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$17M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 6% of the organizations Burrows Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationInternationalCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther
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
FY2024still arriving38$434k13%
FY202335$280k6%
FY202234$293k18%
FY202132$259k16%
FY202034$205k24%
FY201934$144k15%
FY201837$113k24%
FY201748$130kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$501kHealth$382kArts & Culture$214kPhilanthropy$148kHuman Services$101kEmployment$32kCrime & Legal$32kYouth Development$21kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
MA
CT
MD
AR
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 42 grantees
All grantees of Burrows Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Chapin School Ltd$249,12670%
Hospice & Palliative Care Inc$160,25080%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$155,60070%
Friends of Bassett Inc$130,00071%
The Berkshire School Inc$80,00080%
Little Falls Hospital$60,00060%
Masonic Medical Research Laboratory$58,50040%
Little Falls Community Outreach$52,500620%
The Creative Outpost$32,000135%
Abraham House$31,56082%
Mohawk Valley Choral Society$23,25082%
Harlem Educational Activities Fund Inc$20,42531%
Mohawk Valley Center for the Arts Inc$14,40089%
Little Falls Public Library$11,00071%
Northfield Mount Hermon School$8,00080%
Broadway Theatre League of Utica Inc$5,00010%
Valley Health Services Inc$5,00010%
The Asia Society$4,20030%
Ocean Reef Medical Center Foundation Inc$3,00060%
Amazing Gracie Gift Foundation$2,50070%
Herkimer County College Foundation Inc$2,00020%
Dwight School Foundation$2,00010%
Little Falls Rotary Club$1,0903n/a
Syracuse Pulp & Paper Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Millers Mills Community Baptist Church$1,0001n/a
Esf College Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Heifer Project International$1,00010%
Herkimer County Historical Society$80080%
American Heart Association Inc$60030%
Mulan Club$5001n/a
Main Street First Inc$40020%
Friends of the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery Inc$3507n/a
New York Botanical Garden$32510%
Lupus Research Alliance Inc$30010%
Herkimer County Hunger Coalition$2671n/a
Little Falls Little League$2501n/a
Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc$25010%
Holy Family Parish$2001n/a
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$20010%
Herkimer County Humane Society$20010%
American Legion Post 31$20020%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($737k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Burrows Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Chapin School Ltd: $249,126 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHospice & Palliative Care Inc: $160,250 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $155,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Bassett Inc: $130,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetThe Berkshire School Inc: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Falls Hospital: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMasonic Medical Research Laboratory: $58,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLittle Falls Community Outreach: $52,500 over 6y, 20% of budgetThe Creative Outpost: $32,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetAbraham House: $31,560 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetMohawk Valley Choral Society: $23,250 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetHarlem Educational Activities Fund Inc: $20,425 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMohawk Valley Center for the Arts Inc: $14,400 over 8y, 8.7% of budgetLittle Falls Public Library: $11,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetNorthfield Mount Hermon School: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBroadway Theatre League of Utica Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetValley Health Services Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Asia Society: $4,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Reef Medical Center Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmazing Gracie Gift Foundation: $2,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHerkimer County College Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDwight School Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSyracuse Pulp & Paper Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEsf College Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeifer Project International: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHerkimer County Historical Society: $800 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMain Street First Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNew York Botanical Garden: $325 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLupus Research Alliance Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHerkimer County Humane Society: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Legion Post 31: $200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $100 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 35.

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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.

The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties IncNY34.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc · UpMobility Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Dale Samuel S Trs Uw · Indium Corporation and Macartney Family Foundation Inc · Bank of Utica Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Burrows Foundation

How much does Burrows Foundation give?
Burrows Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $434,125 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 48 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Burrows Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (27%), Health (21%), Arts & Culture (12%).
Who are Burrows Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Chapin School Ltd ($249k), Hospice & Palliative Care Inc ($160k), Metropolitan Museum of Art ($156k).
Does Burrows Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Burrows Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Burrows Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc, UpMobility Foundation Inc, Price Chopper's Golub Foundation.
Where is Burrows Foundation based?
Burrows Foundation is based in NY.

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 88 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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