How much did BURT FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of BURT FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $4k
$10k–50k8 grants · $190k
$50k–250k21 grants · $2.2M

$75,000

Median grant

States reached

$46M

Total assets

Largest grants

BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY$175,000
UMRC FOUNDATION$150,000
PRIMAVERA FUNDRAISER$150,000
PAWS WITH A CAUSE$150,000
DIG DEEP INC$150,000
DOG IS MY COPILOT INC$125,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON V$125,000
MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LE$125,000
FRIENDS OF PIMA CO ANIMAL CARE$125,000
MICHIGAN ANTI-CRUELTY SOC$125,000
PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY$100,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$100,000
PROJECT ST VET$75,000
TUCSON WILDLIFE CENTER INC$75,000
FRIENDS OF PIMA CO COUNTY ANIMAL$75,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 32% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$12M · 31 repeat orgs$330k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$12M

$155k

Still filing today

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthOther

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

UF
UMRC FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +98%
PW
PAWS WITH A CAUSE
8× · 2017–2024 · $975k · revenue +86%
DI
DOG IS MY COPILOT INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $625k · revenue +671%

Funded once

BF
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCT
one grant, 2017 · $75k
YO
YMCA OF ANN ARBOR
one grant, 2017 · $50k
DZ
DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOC
one grant, 2017 · $15k

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

04Your field

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.

Partners for Animal Welfare Society

Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.

Animals

Humane Society of Southern Arizona

Compassionately serving pets and the people who love them.

Animals

Michigan Animal Adoption

Animal adoptions; low cost spay/neutering in low income areas. animal care network (acn).

Animals

Arizona Humane Society

Mission: To save the most vulnerable animals and enrich the lives of pets and people.

Animals

Friends of Pima Animal Care Center

Friends of PACC supports the work of Pima Animal Care Center (PACC) and enhances its efforts to save the lives of pets in need. Our vision is that every pet served by Pima Animal Care Center will be supported with the resources needed for…

Animals

Humane Society of South Central Mi

Animal shelter - provide a safe haven for animals without homes.

Animals

Michigan Animal Rescue League

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…

Animals

Prescott Animal Park Association

Giving refuge to non-releasable, rescued wildlife while providing conservation through exhibition and public education.

Animals

Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland

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.

Animals

Danbury Animal Welfare Society

Dedicated to improving the lives of animals in its community and beyond. daws provides rescue,shelter and care to cats & dogs in need and offers adoption counseling

Animals

Animal Care Sanctuary

The humane compassionate treatment of all animals.

Animals

Nevada Humane Society

To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Pima Council on Aging. 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

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

15/17

Grantees still filing

14/17

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$7,257,000Animals$2,627,500Human Services$1,425,000Health$1,175,000Environment$304,500

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.

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.

Community Foundation ForAZ15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation For · Duffy Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PIMA PAWS FOR LIFE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 463039870 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PIMA PAWS FOR LIFE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 40% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Burt Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Burt Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BURT FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Burt Foundation?

More from the funding graph

BURT FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Burt Foundation?

More from the funding graph