Illinois · Private foundation
Burt 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.
- $481k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 33
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $305k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Burt Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $475k | 45% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $272k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $320k | 53% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $375k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $302k | 69% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $290k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $122,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Unity Preschool | $100,250 | 4 | 11% |
| Project Commotion | $95,705 | 5 | 3% |
| Baker Demonstration School Inc | $90,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Rush University Medical Center | $85,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Leap Inc | $80,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Planned Parenthood of Illinois | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Strides for Peace Inc | $72,500 | 3 | 23% |
| Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth | $66,633 | 2 | 1% |
| Junior Achievement of Chicago | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($762k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Burt Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Tides Foundation · The California Endowment · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation · Tides Center
How this is measured
About Burt Family Foundation
- How much does Burt Family Foundation give?
- Burt Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $481,026 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 33 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Burt Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (16%), Health (15%), Civil Rights (12%).
- Who are Burt Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Art Institute of Chicago ($122k), Unity Preschool ($100k), Project Commotion ($96k).
- Does Burt Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Burt 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 Burt Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Impactassetsinc.
- Where is Burt Family Foundation based?
- Burt Family Foundation is based in IL.
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