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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 FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$333kHealth$304kCivil Rights$250kArts & Culture$190kYouth Development$134kHousing & Shelter$125kHuman Services$117kEmployment$80kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $304k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$305k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$50,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO$50,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS$50,000
Individual grant recipient$45,000
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$42,500
COLEMAN ADVOCATES$39,133
BAKER DEMONSTRATION SCHOOL$37,500
EVANSTON ANIMAL SHELTER ASSOCATION$30,000
STRIDES FOR PEACE$30,000
HOMEY$30,000
FROM THE HEART PRODUCTIONS$20,000
SYNERGY SCHOOL$16,500
Individual grant recipient$13,000
THE FIELD$7,500
TIDES FOUNDATION$5,867
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BORDER ANGELS: $4k → 11%SHARE OUR SPARE: $1k → 14%BLESSING IN A BACKPACK: $2k → 15%COLEMAN ADVOCATES: $39k → 10%COLEMAN ADVOCATES: $28k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER: $5k → 10%TIDES: $5k → 10%FAMILY FOCUS: $45k → 14%LEAP INNOVATION: $18k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
DE
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 35 repeat orgs$412k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
44

Total granted

$1.6M
$313k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
0%

Still filing today

54%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthCivil RightsHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TA
    THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
    5× · 2021–2025 · $122k · revenue +43%
  • UP
    Unity Preschool
    4× · 2020–2023 · $100k · revenue +13%
  • PC
    Project Commotion
    5× · 2020–2024 · $96k · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • FF
    FULCRUM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • Family Focusgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue +158%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $38k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
2
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
4
Deans for Impact

See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…

Education
5
Public Interest Law Initiative

PILI engages, inspires and empowers those advancing equal access to justice.

Crime & Legal
6
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
7
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
8
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
9
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
10
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
11
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

—
12
Chicago United

To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Movement Voter Fund; the most unlike its peers is Msc Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 92 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
32/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOMEY: $125,000 · OtherHOMEYIndividual grant recipient: $110,950 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUnity Preschool: $100,250 · OtherUnity PreschoolJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $95,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENTIndividual grant recipient: $87,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITED ROOTS: $68,650 · OtherUNITED ROOTSFULCRUM FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherCCCS: $40,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO: $50,000 · Other+55 more: $444,361 · Other+55 moreTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $122,000 · EducationTHE ART INSTITU…BAKER DEMONSTRATION SCHOOL INC: $90,500 · EducationBAKER DEMONSTRA…SYNERGY SCHOOL: $47,000 · EducationSYNERGY SCHOOL+6 more: $20,500 · Education+6 moreProject Commotion: $95,705 · HealthProject Commot…Rush University Medical Center: $85,000 · HealthRush Universit…Planned Parenthood of Illinois: $75,000 · HealthPlanned Parent…Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth: $66,633 · Human ServicesFamily Focus: $45,000 · Human ServicesLEAP Innovations: $17,500 · Human ServicesTIDES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER: $5,000 · Human Services+3 more: $6,000 · Human ServicesLEAP INC: $80,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterSTRIDES FOR PEACE INC: $72,500 · Public Benefit626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureFrom The Heart Productions: $20,000 · Arts & CultureFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $17,500 · Arts & CultureCAPOEIRA CHICAGO: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $526 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,171,711Education$280,000Health$255,705Human Services$145,133Housing & Shelter$81,000Public Benefit$72,500Arts & Culture$61,026

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $122,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnity Preschool: $100,250 over 4y, 11% of budgetProject Commotion: $95,705 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetBAKER DEMONSTRATION SCHOOL INC: $90,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLEAP INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTRIDES FOR PEACE INC: $72,500 over 3y, 23% of budgetColeman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth: $66,633 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSYNERGY SCHOOL: $47,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFamily Focus: $45,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEVANSTON ANIMAL SHELTER ASSOCIATION: $35,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetFULCRUM CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOURISHING HOPE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLEAP Innovations: $17,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMOVEMENT VOTER FUND: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESOURCE GENERATION INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Action Project Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVANSTON WILMETTE GOLF COURSE ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI Chicago: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMovement Generation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBORDER ANGELS: $3,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAPOEIRA CHICAGO: $3,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMETROSQUASH NFP: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTransgender Law Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited for A Fair Economy Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShare our Spare: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES PROJECT OF MONROE COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Chicago Community…Amalgamated Charitabl…ImpactassetsincUnited Way of Metropo…Rsf Social Finance IncTides FoundationThe California Endowm…John D and Catherine …AbbVie FoundationEast Bay Community Fo…Kayne Anderson Capita…Tides Center
The Chicago Community TrustIL19.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Burt Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burt Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 92 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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