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Burt 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.
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 $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k22 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LE | $300,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $175,000 |
| PAWS WITH A CAUSE | $150,000 |
| MICHIGAN ANTI-CRUELTY SOC | $150,000 |
| DOG IS MY COPILOT INC | $150,000 |
| UMRC FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON V | $125,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PIMA CO ANIMAL CARE | $125,000 |
| PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| PROJECT ST VET | $75,000 |
| FISHER HOUSE | $75,000 |
| TIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED | $75,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES | $75,000 |
| PILOTS TO THE RESCUE | $75,000 |
| TUCSON WILDLIFE CENTER INC | $75,000 |
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, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
32 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
- UHUMRC-PORTER HILLS FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +97%
- PWPaws With A Cause9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +86%
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY8× · 2018–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +59%
Funded once
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2024 · $100k
- MAMICHIGAN ANTI CRUELTY SOCone grant, 2017 · $75k
- BFBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTone grant, 2017 · $75k
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.
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.
Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.
To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.
The mission of the michigan animal rescue league is to provide the highest quality of life to dogs and cats through rescue, medical care, socialization and behavioral support, short- and long-term sanctuary, adoption, and community…
Stray Hearts is a socially conscious shelter and adoption facility reuniting lost pets with their families and providing humane care and shelter for surrendered, lost, and homeless companion animals in Taos County, New Mexico.Our pledge:…
Danbury animal welfare society , inc.(daws) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of animals in our community and beyond. we promote responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals, and work toward…
Humane society of southwestern michigan exists to provide shelter and care for sick, homeless and unwanted animals. in addition, the organization provides adoption services for the animals in its care.
The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland nurtures the connection between people and pets to advance animal welfare and improve the quality of life in our community.
The mission of the Animal Orphanage is to care for and adopt out the stray or abandoned animals in our local communities. It is a no kill shelter that utilizes rigorous spay/neuter activites to reduce the number of lost and abandoned…
We are on a mission to change lives by connecting pets and people. We dothis through innovative programs that inspire and have impact beyond ourborders. We envision a compassionate community where all animals arerecognized for their…
At Animal Samaritans we champion compassion and respect for all living creatures, with a primary focus on dogs, cats, and the people who love them. We view pets not merely as animals, but as members of our families. As their guardians and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. 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 44 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 41 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 UMRC-PORTER HILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ANTI-CRUELTY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds DOG IS MY COPILOT ↗
- Who funds Friends of Pima Animal Care Center ↗
- Who funds DIG DEEP ↗
- Who funds Tucson Wildlife Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Pima Council on Aging ↗
- Who funds TIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HORSES' HAVEN ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES ↗
- Who funds PIMA PAWS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds LEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Sasha Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds The Hermitage No Kill Cat Shelter ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOPE ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds BURT LAKE PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Trails End Wildlife Refuge 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: Duffy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · The Intuit Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Network for Good · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation 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 Burt 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.
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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