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Burton Family 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.

$569k
Granted FY2023
21
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

67% of Burton Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Mayo Clinic, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 17 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Burton Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $569k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

9
’17
14
’18
19
’19
10
’20
9
’21
15
’22
12
’23
16
’24
17
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$4.0MEducation$1.9MReligion$725kHuman Services$387kCommunity Improvement$221kPhilanthropy$193kYouth Development$121kRecreation & Sports$97kOther$0
02FY2023 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k4 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $395k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HOPE INSTITUTE$100,000
FRIENDS OF JEMISON PARK$75,000
PRESCHOOL PARTNERS$60,000
CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS$60,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ALABAMA$50,000
HONEYWORD FOUNDATION INC$50,000
CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC$25,000
ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$25,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA$15,000
YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA$15,000
LAKESHORE FOUNDATION$15,000
QUARTERBACKING CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
FIREHOUSE MINISTRIES$10,000
ST PAUL FRATERNUS BIRMINGHAM$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $972k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%COVENANT HOUSE OF TEXAS: $10k → 16%BIG OAK RANCH: $20k → 13%RENEW BIRMINGHAM: $100k → 16%RENEW BIRMINGHAM: $50k → 16%RENEW BIRMINGHAM: $50k → 16%CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC: $50k → 16%CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC: $25k → 16%CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC: $25k → 16%CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC: $25k → 16%CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC: $25k → 16%CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC: $25k → 16%CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC: $25k → 16%THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $20k → 16%TERRIFIC NEW THEATRE: $25k → 16%THE HOPE INSTITUTE: $100k → 16%THE HOPE INSTITUTE: $100k → 16%BROTHER BRYAN MISSION: $5k → 16%THE HOPE INSTITUTE: $100k → 16%THE HOPE INSTITUTE: $100k → 16%THE HOPE INSTITUTE: $25k → 16%THE HOPE INSTITUTE: $25k → 16%THE HOPE INSTITUTE: $20k → 16%THE HOPE INSTITUTE: $20k → 16%OAK TREE MINISTRIES: $2k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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WY
CO
VA
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SC
AL
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 30% of Burton Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Burton Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.2M · 35 repeat orgs$771k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2023, 17 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
24

Total granted

$5.2M
$567k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+35%

Still filing today

57%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementReligionPhilanthropyOther

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

  • TH
    The Hope Institute
    8× · 2018–2025 · $490k · revenue +317%
  • PP
    PRESCHOOL PARTNERS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $460k · revenue +15%
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $220k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $300k
  • Samford Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +59%
  • FL
    F&F LIMITED - THE DELPHI CLUB
    one grant, 2019 · $25k

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.

1
Alabama Partnership for Children

To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.

Education
2
Uab Educational Foundation

To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.

Education
3
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
4
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
5
Baptist Health System Inc

"as a witness to the love of god, revealed through jesus christ, the baptist health system is committed to ministries that enhance the health, dignity, and wholeness of those we serve, through integrity, compassion, advocacy,…

Health
6
Alabama Alliance Network

The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking

Public Benefit
7
Habitat for Humanity of Baldwin County Inc

Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.

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8
United Way of Northwest Alabama

To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the community

Philanthropy
9
Greater Birmingham Ministries

To serve people, build community, pursue justice.

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10
Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Ala

To help find a cure for breast cancer by funding promising breast cancer research in alabama and to raise community awareness and funding for that research.

Health
11
Breakthrough Birmingham

Breakthrough Birmingham works with highly motivated, traditionally underrepresented students in Alabama to achieve post-secondary success while empowering aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educators and advocates.

Education
12
Birmingham Corps

Birmingham corps' mission is to drive fair workforce opportunities and accelerate social change by recruiting, training, and retaining people in birmingham.

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oak Tree Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Honeyword Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number29%5%<5yr17%0%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr8%16%35–55yr9%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value29%4%<5yr17%0%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr17%7%20–35yr8%1%35–55yr9%68%55yr+

The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/49
the rest of the field
18%
4,473/24,866

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.

05the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 72 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/48
Grantees still filing
23/48
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MAYO CLINIC — $2,000,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $1,070,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETYThe Children's Hospital of Alabama — $200,000 · HealthThe Children's Hospital of AlabamaLAKESHORE FOUNDATION — $130,000 · Health+4 more — $71,000 · HealthCORNERSTONE SCHOOLS — $480,000 · OtherCORNERSTONE SCHOOLSIndividual grant recipient — $300,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHOLY FAMILY CRISTO REY CATHOLIC SCHOOL — $215,000 · OtherHOLY FAMILY CRISTO REY CATHOL…ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $185,000 · OtherST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION — $150,000 · OtherCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $85,000 · OtherFIREHOUSE MINISTRIES — $80,000 · OtherYMCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA — $80,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF JEMISON PARK — $75,000 · OtherDOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION — $70,000 · Other+28 more — $363,175 · Other+28 moreThe Hope Institute — $490,000 · Human ServicesThe Hope Inst…THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC — $220,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FO…RENEW BIRMINGHAM — $200,000 · Human ServicesRENEW BIRMING…+5 more — $62,000 · Human Services+5 morePRESCHOOL PARTNERS — $460,000 · EducationPRESCHOOL …Samford University — $100,000 · EducationSamford Un…CRESTWOOD DAY SCHOOL INC — $75,000 · EducationCRESTWOOD …MATTIE C STEWART FOUNDATION — $72,000 · EducationMATTIE C S…ELEVATE USA — $40,000 · Education+2 more — $6,000 · EducationHONEYWORD FOUNDATION INC — $130,000 · ReligionBIGTIME MINISTRIES — $110,000 · Religion+1 more — $2,500 · ReligionWOODLAWN UNITED INC — $220,000 · Community ImprovementBIRMINGHAM KIWANIS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $2,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC — $145,000 · PhilanthropyQuarterbacking Children's Health Foundation — $30,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM — $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $2,500 · Philanthropy
Health$3,471,000Other$2,083,175Human Services$972,000Education$753,000Religion$242,500Community Improvement$232,000Philanthropy$202,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMAYO CLINIC — $2,000,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $1,070,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetThe Hope Institute — $490,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetPRESCHOOL PARTNERS — $460,000 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetWOODLAWN UNITED INC — $220,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC — $220,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama — $200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRENEW BIRMINGHAM — $200,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC — $145,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLAKESHORE FOUNDATION — $130,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHONEYWORD FOUNDATION INC — $130,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetBIGTIME MINISTRIES — $110,000 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetSamford University — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRESTWOOD DAY SCHOOL INC — $75,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetFRIENDS OF JEMISON PARK — $75,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetMATTIE C STEWART FOUNDATION — $72,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetDOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION — $70,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS — $55,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetELEVATE USA — $40,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetQuarterbacking Children's Health Foundation — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHAND IN PAW INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTerrific New Theatre Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBIG OAK RANCH INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Monday Morning Quarterback Club — $17,575 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIRMINGHAM KIWANIS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIT FOR LIFE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetTHE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOOPERATIVE DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE SHADES VALLEY ROTARY CLUB — $5,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetBROTHER BRYAN MISSION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WELLHOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPortraits of Hope Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOAK TREE MINISTRIES — $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNational Conference for Community and Justice of Alabama — $2,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HARBOR INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSocial Motion Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCahaba River Society Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds The Hope Institute ↗
  • Who funds PRESCHOOL PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds WOODLAWN UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
  • Who funds RENEW BIRMINGHAM ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKESHORE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HONEYWORD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BIGTIME MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds Samford University ↗
  • Who funds CRESTWOOD DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF JEMISON PARK ↗
  • Who funds MATTIE C STEWART FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds THE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS ↗
  • Who funds ELEVATE USA ↗
  • Who funds Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HAND IN PAW INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM ↗
  • Who funds Terrific New Theatre Inc ↗
  • Who funds BIG OAK RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds The Monday Morning Quarterback Club ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…The Daniel Foundation…Susan Mott Webb Chari…Protective Life Found…Hill Crest Foundation…Altecstyslinger Found…Debardeleben Foundati…Robert R Meyer Founda…Dunn-French FoundationAlabama Power Foundat…The Joseph S Bruno Ch…Mike and Gillian Good…
The Community Foundation of Greater BirminghamAL46.5× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Protective Life Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Debardeleben Foundation Inc · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich 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 Burton Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 72 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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