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Burrows Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $221k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $179k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $114,000 |
| THE CHAPIN SCHOOL | $65,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $33,166 |
| CREATIVE OUTPOST | $32,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BASSETT | $30,000 |
| MASONIC MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $23,000 |
| ABRAHAM HOUSE | $21,600 |
| HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC | $20,250 |
| MVHS FOUNDATION | $20,250 |
| FRIENDS OF NORRIS COTTON CANCER CENTER | $20,000 |
| MOHAWK VALLEY CENTER FOR ARTS | $10,500 |
| BERKSHIRE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MMGIMBI LLC | $5,000 |
| BROADWAY THEATRE LEAGUE OF UTICA | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO | $3,917 |
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 (FY17–22, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
51 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- TCTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD7× · 2018–2024 · $249k · revenue +11%
- HPHOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +22%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2017–2024 · $156k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- ABA BETTER CHANCE CLINTONone grant, 2022 · $5k
- VHValley Health Services Incone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -2%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…
An academic health sciences system whose responsibilities are to provide a broad range of patient services to the people of eastern new york and western new england.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harlem Educational Activities Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Creative Outpost. 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 51 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 88 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 THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Friends of Bassett Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Little Falls Hospital ↗
- Who funds MASONIC MEDICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds LITTLE FALLS COMMUNITY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds THE CREATIVE OUTPOST ↗
- Who funds ABRAHAM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MOHAWK VALLEY CHORAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Mohawk Valley Center for the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds LITTLE FALLS PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY THEATRE LEAGUE OF UTICA INC ↗
- Who funds Valley Health Services Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ASIA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMAZING GRACIE GIFT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DWIGHT SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 Burrows Foundation 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
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.