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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.

$258k
Granted FY2025still arriving
79
Grants FY2025still arriving
23
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$801kEnvironment$88kPhilanthropy$24kArts & Culture$13kHealth$11kFood & Nutrition$9kRecreation & Sports$4kHuman Services$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k77 grants · $223k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$3,000
Median grant
23
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WILDLIFE IN CRISIS$4,500
DAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE$4,500
ENVIR DEFEND FUND$4,500
GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE$4,500
SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY$4,500
WILD ANIMAL SANTUARY$4,500
HUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER$4,100
WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER$4,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BIG CAT RESCUE: $2k → 13%BIG CAT RESCUE: $2k → 13%BIG CAT RESCUE: $1k → 13%BIG CAT RESCUE: $500 → 13%BIG CAT RESCUE: $500 → 13%RAY OF LIGHT FARM: $6k → 7%BIG CAT RESCUE: $500 → 13%RAY OF LIGHT FARM: $2k → 7%BIG CAT RESCUE: $500 → 13%RAY OF LIGHT FARM: $2k → 7%BIG CAT RESCUE: $500 → 13%RAY OF LIGHT FARM: $2k → 7%RAY OF LIGHT FARM: $2k → 7%RAY OF LIGHT FARM: $2k → 7%RAY OF LIGHT FARM: $1k → 7%RAY OF LIGHT FARM: $1k → 7%RAY OF LIGHT FARM: $1k → 7%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

ME
VT
WA
ID
MN
IL
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
DC
LA
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 105 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

105
7

Total granted

$1.1M
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+79%

Still filing today

47%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • WB
    WILD BIRD FUND INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +127%
  • DO
    Defenders of Wildlife
    8× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +43%
  • WF
    WOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • EH
    ECHO HILLS DAYS END
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
3
Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals
4
Wildlife Sos

Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.

Animals
5
Wolfe Ranch Rescue
Animals
6
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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7
Predators of the Heart Dba Because We Matter Exotic Animal Res

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…

Youth Development
8
Martha's Farm Animal Sanctuary
Animals
9
Grace Farm Animal Rescue and Sanctu
Animals
10
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

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.

Animals
11
Peace River Refuge & Ranch Inc

Forest Animal Rescue protects wildlife by preserving natural habitats for the safe release of rehabilitated animals and the rehabilitation and release of black bears.

Animals
12
J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and rescue

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Cat Rescue Corp; 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.
04the grantee network

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/62
Grantees still filing
45/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WILD BIRD FUND INC: $49,350 · AnimalsWILD BIRD FUND INCDefenders of Wildlife: $33,000 · AnimalsDefenders of WildlifeWILDLIFE IN CRISIS INC: $25,500 · AnimalsWOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $24,500 · AnimalsA PLACE CALLED HOPE INC: $23,250 · AnimalsWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $21,750 · AnimalsBorn Free USA united with API: $21,000 · AnimalsGUARDIANS OF RESCUE INC: $19,250 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $18,000 · Animals+35 more: $289,950 · Animals+35 moreIndividual grant recipient: $29,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $22,000 · OtherCT ANIMAL HOUSE: $17,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS BATON ROUGE: $17,250 · Other+66 more: $429,950 · Other+66 moreOCEANA INC: $17,000 · EnvironmentPollinator Partnership: $14,750 · EnvironmentHUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER INC: $14,350 · EnvironmentSAVE THE SOUND: $7,750 · EnvironmentBLOCK ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC: $2,500 · Environment+2 more: $4,000 · EnvironmentRAY OF LIGHT FARM INC: $16,125 · Human ServicesBIG CAT RESCUE CORP: $6,500 · Human ServicesSAVING AMERICA'S MUSTANGS: $14,750 · EducationMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC: $9,250 · PhilanthropyPROJECT APIS M INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionWILD PROJECTS: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Animals$525,550Other$515,700Environment$60,350Human Services$22,625Education$14,750Philanthropy$9,250Food & Nutrition$2,000Arts & Culture$1,000

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 budgetWILD BIRD FUND INC: $49,350 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $33,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE IN CRISIS INC: $25,500 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetWOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $24,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOPE INC: $23,250 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $21,750 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBorn Free USA united with API: $21,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGUARDIANS OF RESCUE INC: $19,250 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHORSE RESCUE UNITED INC: $17,500 over 9y, 5.4% of budgetOCEANA INC: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAY OF LIGHT FARM INC: $16,125 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetNOWZAD DOGS NFP: $15,500 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetPollinator Partnership: $14,750 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSAVING AMERICA'S MUSTANGS: $14,750 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetHUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER INC: $14,350 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCOMPANION ANIMAL ALLIANCE: $14,250 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC: $13,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetExotic Feline Rescue Center: $13,250 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $12,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL EXOTIC ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $12,250 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATION: $12,200 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc: $11,750 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGERDAS EQUINE RESCUE INC: $11,750 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetDAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC: $11,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOUR HEN HOUSE: $11,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC: $11,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE: $11,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc: $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTIGER HAVEN INC: $9,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC: $9,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE THE SOUND: $7,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Welfare League: $7,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $7,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $7,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBIG CAT RESCUE CORP: $6,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWILDAID INC: $6,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAT HAVEN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLITTLE LONGEARS MINI DONKEY RESCUE INC: $2,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 Pollinator Partnership ↗
  • Who funds SAVING AMERICA'S MUSTANGS ↗
  • 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 Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc ↗
  • Who funds GERDAS EQUINE RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds DAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC ↗

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.

Greater Good CharitiesThe Pfizer Foundation…PC Fund for Animals C…Leslie L Alexander Fo…Amica Companies Found…Humane World for Anim…Aetna Foundation IncAmg Charitable Gift F…Shell USA Company Fou…Bruce G Geary Foundat…Surendra and Karen Gu…Bradford Family Found…
Greater Good CharitiesWA20× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • Save the Sound: 37% of income from government
  • High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Burt Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Burt Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 127 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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