Michigan · Private foundation
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.
- $2.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Burt Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k 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 | 29 | $2.4M | 10% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $2.4M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $1.7M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $1.9M | 3% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $1.9M | 10% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $1.4M | 4% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $1.3M | 8% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $1.1M | 42% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Umrc-Porter Hills Foundation | $1,325,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Paws With A Cause | $1,125,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Best Friends Animal Society | $1,000,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Michigan Anti-Cruelty Society | $825,000 | 8 | 10% |
| Humane Society of Huron Valley | $800,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Dog Is My Copilot | $775,000 | 8 | 14% |
| Friends of Pima Animal Care Center | $725,000 | 7 | 9% |
| Dig Deep | $675,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Tucson Wildlife Center Inc | $460,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Pima Council on Aging | $450,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Burt Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
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About Burt Foundation
- How much does Burt Foundation give?
- Burt Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $2,429,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Burt Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (60%), Human Services (16%), Environment (9%).
- Who are Burt Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Umrc-Porter Hills Foundation ($1.3M), Paws With A Cause ($1.1M), Best Friends Animal Society ($1.0M).
- Does Burt Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Burt 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duffy Foundation, Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
- Where is Burt Foundation based?
- Burt Foundation is based in MI.
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