How much did BURTON FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Education$10MHuman Services$3.4MPhilanthropy$2.3MCommunity Improvement$2.0MScience & Tech$2.0MYouth Development$1.5MArts & Culture$1.4MSocial Science$1.2MHealth$1.0MOther$6.7M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

counselingdonorsschedulemaximizeempower prepcountriespartnership

2020

chromebooksreyes mariastep summersummer residentialresidential scholarshipspatrons circlehistorically black

2021

citizenssystemshomeless youthpastnowgraduationalhambra elementary

2022

rightfacultymaintenancestaffequitablecapitalenabling

2023

data scienceboot campcustom meetmeet learnerslearners increasingincreasing awarenessawareness nontraditional

2024

mediaphaseoutdoorqueermusicalmental healthwomens

2025

basicreadfood pantryclothinggalaparamedic trainingequipment

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 106 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k16 grants · $116k
$10k–50k39 grants · $704k
$50k–250k38 grants · $4.8M
$250k+13 grants · $5.7M

$35,000

Median grant

States reached

$134M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE ASPEN INSTITUTE$925,000
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY$805,000
CAMP CATANESE FOUNDATION$565,000
ARIZONA WESTERN COLLEGE FOUNDATION$565,000
DONORSCHOOSEORG$415,000
ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$330,000
ARIZONA CENTER FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE SUCCESS$330,000
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE$330,000
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL$307,000
FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION$300,000
WILDFIRE AZ$300,000
ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOUNDATION$300,000
YOUTH WORLD EDUCATION PROJECT$260,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA$226,000
BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION$225,000

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-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.

Where the work is directed

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

About 9% 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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$22M · 63 repeat orgs$9.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +53% for the ones you funded once.

63 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 67 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$22M

$3.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%

+53%

Still filing today

90%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.7M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

SF
SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC
7× · 2018–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +353%
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
7× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +37%
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE -COLORADO
6× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +243%

Funded once

LF
LOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $600k · revenue +1302%
YO
YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA
one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -16%
VE
VELA EDUCATION FUNDgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $360k · revenue +314%

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.

Arizona Latin-American

Unclassified

Arizona Latino Leaders in Education

We exist to ensure that individuals from the communities most impacted by education inequities are the ones making decisions for all students

Education

Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans.

Civil Rights

Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting

AZCIR holds powerful people and institutions accountable by exposing injustice and systemic inequities through investigative journalism.

Arts & Culture

Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance

A non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation, expansion and creation of Arts and Culture in Southern Arizona.

Philanthropy

Arizona Forward Association

Arizona Forward brings business and civic leaders together to promote cooperative efforts to improve the environmental sustainability and economic vitality of our state and local regions.

Community Improvement

Arizona Foundation for Women

To advance the status of arizona's women through research, advocacy and philanthropy to ensure their safety, health and economic independence. this includes performing the functions of, or carrying out the purposes of the arizona community…

Human Services

Arizonans for Economic Prosperity

Arizonans for economic prosperity mission is to work toward a prosperous arizona economy for all.

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Arizona Chamber of Commerce and

A statewide advocacy organization that advances arizona business and the arizona economy. the arizona chamber of commerce and industry is commited to advancing arizona's competitive position in the global economy by advocating free market…

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Pro-Choice Arizona

Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…

Health

Center for Arizona Policy Inc

Center for arizona policy, inc.'s primary exempt purpose is to promote and defend public policy

Education

Arizona Technology Council

To connect and strengthen arizona's technology industry and community, promote state and federal policies that enhance arizona's technology industry, deliver quality content and events to educate those working in arizona's expanding…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Chamber Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Steps to Recovery Homes. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 24 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%2/198

the rest of the field

14%

3,146/22,835

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.

06the grantee network

175 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)

166/175

Grantees still filing

140/175

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$10,426,578Other$10,329,466Human Services$3,387,337Philanthropy$2,325,488Community Improvement$1,981,000Science & Tech$1,972,500Youth Development$1,545,000

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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ135.2× affinity127 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Thunderbirds Charities · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Ellis Center for Educational Excellence · Valley of the Sun United Way · Helios Education Foundation · Fiesta Events Inc · Community Foundation For · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · Garcia Family Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust

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 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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: YOUTH WORLD EDUCATION PROJECT.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~15 months of operating runway; revenue held over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 263453073 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 YOUTH WORLD EDUCATION PROJECT, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 15 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% 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 Burton Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Burton Family 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.

BURTON FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

175 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Burton Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

BURTON FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

175 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Burton Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph