· Private foundation
Burt Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k77 grants · $223k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILD BIRD FUND | $22,600 |
| INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFA | $12,000 |
| DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE | $6,250 |
| RAY OF LIGHT FARM | $5,625 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SHELDRICK TRUST | $4,750 |
| WILD ANIMAL SANTUARY | $4,500 |
| SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $4,500 |
| GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE | $4,500 |
| WILDLIFE IN CRISIS | $4,500 |
| DAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE | $4,500 |
| ENVIR DEFEND FUND | $4,500 |
| HUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER | $4,100 |
| WOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
105 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- WBWILD BIRD FUND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +127%
- DODefenders of Wildlife8× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +43%
- WFWOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $3k
- EHECHO HILLS DAYS ENDone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.
Animal Welfare
Operation of a wildlife rescue that is usda licensed and insured, providing forever homes, care and rehabilitation for exotic animals that are released into our care from government agencies(i.e. animal control, fish & wildlife), and from…
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
Forest Animal Rescue protects wildlife by preserving natural habitats for the safe release of rehabilitated animals and the rehabilitation and release of black bears.
Animal care and rescue
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Cat Rescue Corp and the most unlike its peers is Saving America's Mustangs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 127 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 WILD BIRD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Born Free USA united with API ↗
- Who funds GUARDIANS OF RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds HORSE RESCUE UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds RAY OF LIGHT FARM INC ↗
- Who funds NOWZAD DOGS NFP ↗
- Who funds SAVING AMERICA'S MUSTANGS ↗
- Who funds Pollinator Partnership ↗
- Who funds HUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER INC ↗
- Who funds COMPANION ANIMAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Exotic Feline Rescue Center ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL EXOTIC ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds THE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GERDAS EQUINE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc ↗
- Who funds DAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
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: Greater Good Charities · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Humane World for Animals Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Bruce G Geary Foundation · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · Bradford Family Foundation
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 Burt Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% 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.
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