Alabama · Private foundation
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
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2023
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 29
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 2
- Total assets, FY2023
- $3.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Burton Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 21 | $569k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $675k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $324k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $620k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $547k | 48% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $395k | 53% |
| FY2017 | 15 | $563k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | $1,070,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Hope Institute | $490,000 | 8 | 13% |
| Preschool Partners | $460,000 | 8 | 8% |
| The Center for Executive Leadership Inc | $220,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Woodlawn United Inc | $220,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Renew Birmingham | $200,000 | 3 | 9% |
| The Children's Hospital of Alabama | $200,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United Way of Central Alabama Inc | $145,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Lakeshore Foundation | $130,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Honeyword Foundation Inc | $130,000 | 3 | 13% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Burton Family Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: 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
How this is measured
About Burton Family Foundation
- How much does Burton Family Foundation give?
- Burton Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $568,500 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Burton Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (50%), Education (24%), Religion (9%).
- Who are Burton Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: National Multiple Sclerosis Society ($1.1M), The Hope Institute ($490k), Preschool Partners ($460k).
- Does Burton Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Burton Family 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 Burton Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust.
- Where is Burton Family Foundation based?
- Burton Family Foundation is based in AL.
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