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Burton Family Foundation

Guided by a belief in the inherent dignity of all individuals, our mission is to advance individual achievement through support for education and human services programs and initiatives.

$11M
Granted FY2025still arriving
148
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$19MYouth Development$3.3MScience & Tech$3.1MHuman Services$2.7MCommunity Improvement$2.5MHealth$2.4MHousing & Shelter$2.1MArts & Culture$2.0MOther$0
02FY2025 · 148 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 148 grants below total $10,453,352, the rows itemized in this filing. The $10,701,066 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $247,714 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $92k
  • $10k–50k86 grants · $1.6M
  • $50k–250k36 grants · $3.2M
  • $250k+13 grants · $5.6M
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$133M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEACH FOR AMERICA$1,060,000
LOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION$685,000
VALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION$600,000
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE$405,000
THE WELCOME TO AMERICA PROJECT$400,000
SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC$381,250
BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION$375,000
ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$339,500
CENTER FOR THE FUTURE OF ARIZONA$300,000
DONORSCHOOSEORG$300,000
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$285,000
ARIZONA JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY$250,000
CRANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT$250,000
READ BETTER BE BETTER$220,000
ROSIE'S HOUSE A MUSIC ACADEMY FOR CHILDREN$215,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LOW INCOME STUDENT AID INC (LISA): $18k → 14%ARIVACA COORDINATING COUNCIL-HUMAN RESOURCE GROUP INC: $133k → 15%SIERRA VISTA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $10k → 18%TRUE SIOUX HOPE FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%SUPPORT MY CLUB: $90k → 11%THE HOPI FOUNDATION: $10k → 26%SUPPORT MY CLUB: $88k → 11%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI YUMA CONFERENCE: $13k → 15%THE HOPI FOUNDATION: $10k → 26%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI YUMA CONFERENCE: $10k → 15%STEPPING STONES AGENCIES: $41k → 14%Support My club: $75k → 11%SENIOR CITIZENS OF PATAGONIA INC: $10k → 19%VERDE VALLEY HOMELESS COALITION: $168k → 14%OLD TOWN MISSION: $80k → 14%ALIENTO EDUCATION FUND: $25k → 11%STEPS TO RECOVERY HOMES: $55k → 14%SUPPORT MY CLUB: $25k → 11%EARN TO LEARN: $25k → 15%STEPS TO RECOVERY HOMES: $15k → 14%PORTABLE PRACTICAL EDUCATION PREPARATION: $200k → 15%DSQUARED HOMES FOR THE HOMELESS: $25k → 11%SUPPORT MY CLUB: $20k → 11%PORTABLE PRACTICAL EDUCATION PREPARATION: $150k → 15%OLD TOWN MISSION: $10k → 14%PORTABLE PRACTICAL EDUCATION PREPARATION: $75k → 15%VERDE VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 14%AYUDA SMILES INC DBA SMILES FOR VETERANS: $10k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $20k → 11%CIRCLE THE CITY: $55k → 11%ALIENTO EDUCATION FUND: $100k → 11%ALIENTO EDUCATION FUND: $10k → 11%PATSY REEVE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $300k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA: $11k → 11%ELAINE INC: $25k → 11%THE WELCOME TO AMERICA PROJECT: $727k → 11%THE WELCOME TO AMERICA PROJECT: $400k → 11%THE WELCOME TO AMERICA PROJECT: $30k → 11%THE WELCOME TO AMERICA PROJECT: $17k → 11%ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $300k → 11%NEW LIFE CENTER: $30k → 11%ESPIRITU COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $80k → 11%ESPIRITU COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $16k → 11%FAMILY INVOLVEMENT CENTER: $55k → 11%PHOENIX INDIAN CENTER: $12k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
PA
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
AZ
DC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of Burton Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Burton Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32M · 87 repeat orgs$9.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

87 repeat relationships: 61 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 86 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

87
107

Total granted

$32M
$7.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+2%

Still filing today

90%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +353%
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +196%
  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +243%

Funded once

  • CU
    Creighton University
    one grant, 2024 · $805k · revenue +9%
  • YO
    YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -20%
  • VE
    VELA EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $360k · revenue +2%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
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. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights
3
Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence Inc

The arizona center for afterschool excellence is dedicated to the enhancement of child and youth development and educational achievement through quality afterschool programming.

Education
4
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
5
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
6
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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7
Ball Charter Schools (Val Vista)

Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.

Education
8
Corazon Az

CORAZÓN-AZ's mission is to cultivate and foster a welcoming and safe community of Arizonans from vast faith traditions and beliefs, schools, and allied organizations; united in expanding our democracy, economic dignity, immigrant justice,…

Civil Rights
9
Arizona Youth Partnership

Arizona youth partnership, (azyp), empowers youth to harness their strengths to live healthy and purposeful lives.

Health
10
Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Inc

To promote higher business standards and advancement of common interest of its members, to improve business conditions in the metro phoenix area, to promote economic, social, and cultural development and the role of spanish speaking…

—
11
Arizona Local Post

Our mission is to educate and inform public discourse and civic participation in arizona through local, independent journalism.

Arts & Culture
12
Opportunity Arizona

Opportunity arizona is an issue advocacy organization whose mission is to grow more opportunities and improve the quality of life for hard-working arizonans.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goodwill of Central and Northern Arizona; the most unlike its peers is Leadership Consortium. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

251 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 251 of the 284 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

18
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
51
Early backer (in before they grew)
240/251
Grantees still filing
120/251
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Teach for America Inc: $2,366,000 · EducationTeach for America IncARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $1,574,146 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION …DONORSCHOOSEORG: $1,115,956 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORGSTEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC: $1,091,721 · EducationSTEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INCCAMP CATANESE FOUNDATION: $948,000 · EducationCAMP CATANESE FOUNDATIONCreighton University: $805,000 · EducationCreighton UniversityREAD BETTER BE BETTER: $625,000 · EducationYEAR UP INC: $613,000 · EducationACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION INC: $505,500 · Education+37 more: $3,994,255 · Education+37 morePHOENIX UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT: $903,287 · OtherPHOENIX UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICTARIZONA WESTERN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $615,000 · OtherBourgade Catholic High School: $572,767 · OtherACT ONE: $501,000 · OtherARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER: $458,500 · OtherYOUTH WORLD EDUCATION PROJECT INC: $875,000 · OtherYOUTH WORLD EDUCATION PROJECT INCTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $1,496,000 · OtherTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INCRosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc: $722,000 · Other+94 more: $7,571,241 · Other+94 moreTHE WELCOME TO AMERICA PROJECT: $1,193,660 · Human ServicesTHE WELCOME…YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $500,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SOU…PORTABLE PRACTICAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION INC: $425,000 · Human ServicesPORTABLE PR…FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $350,000 · Human ServicesFRESH START…SUPPORT MY CLUB: $303,657 · Human ServicesSUPPORT MY …Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation: $300,000 · Human ServicesArizona Fri…Verde Valley Homeless Coalition: $167,500 · Human Services+17 more: $902,214 · Human Services+17 moreLOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $1,285,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL FIR…SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: $952,000 · Community ImprovementSANDRA DA…CENTER FOR THE FUTURE OF ARIZONA: $654,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FO…AZ IMPACT FOR GOOD: $316,356 · Community ImprovementAZ IMPACT…+3 more: $200,000 · Community Improvement+3 moreARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,134,500 · PhilanthropyPICOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $380,734 · PhilanthropyVELA EDUCATION FUND: $360,000 · PhilanthropyAFC PUBLIC FOUNDATION: $330,000 · PhilanthropyMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $304,870 · PhilanthropyVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $250,000 · PhilanthropyGreater Green Valley Community FDN Inc: $107,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $190,000 · PhilanthropySOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC: $2,403,750 · Science & TechVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,126,000 · HealthBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $750,000 · HealthGreen Valley Assistance Services Inc: $100,000 · Health+6 more: $165,000 · Health
Education$13,638,578Other$13,714,795Human Services$4,142,031Community Improvement$3,407,356Philanthropy$3,057,104Science & Tech$2,403,750Health$2,141,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC: $2,403,750 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $2,366,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $1,574,146 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $1,496,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetLOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $1,285,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetTHE WELCOME TO AMERICA PROJECT: $1,193,660 over 6y, 67% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,134,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,126,000 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $1,115,956 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSTEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC: $1,091,721 over 8y, 22% of budgetSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: $952,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetCAMP CATANESE FOUNDATION: $948,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetYOUTH WORLD EDUCATION PROJECT INC: $875,000 over 6y, 100% of budgetCreighton University: $805,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $750,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetRosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc: $722,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetCENTER FOR THE FUTURE OF ARIZONA: $654,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetREAD BETTER BE BETTER: $625,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetARIZONA WESTERN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $615,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $613,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION INC: $505,500 over 7y, 31% of budgetACT ONE: $501,000 over 6y, 28% of budgetYMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $500,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER: $458,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetBE A LEADER FOUNDATION: $455,713 over 8y, 13% of budgetPORTABLE PRACTICAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION INC: $425,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Launch Pad Teen Center: $398,500 over 4y, 15% of budgetNew Pathways For Youth: $385,760 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetPICOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $380,734 over 8y, 48% of budgetHA P I: $375,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetVELA EDUCATION FUND: $360,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetPHOENIX PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $344,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetAZ IMPACT FOR GOOD: $316,356 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $307,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $304,870 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSUPPORT MY CLUB: $303,657 over 6y, 22% of budgetArizona Community Action Association: $300,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetArizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation: $300,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetACCEL: $275,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetA FOR ARIZONA: $270,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLEAGUE FOR INNOVATION IN THE: $255,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $250,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEMPOWER COLLEGE PREP: $230,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMON SENSE INSTITUTE: $225,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $214,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC: $200,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCHALLENGE FOUNDATION ARIZONA INC: $195,000 over 1y, 18% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds LOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE WELCOME TO AMERICA PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
  • Who funds STEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY ↗
  • Who funds CAMP CATANESE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH WORLD EDUCATION PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Creighton University ↗
  • Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Rosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR THE FUTURE OF ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds READ BETTER BE BETTER ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA WESTERN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
  • Who funds ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ACT ONE ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BE A LEADER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PORTABLE PRACTICAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Launch Pad Teen Center ↗
  • Who funds New Pathways For Youth ↗
  • Who funds PICOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HA P I ↗
  • Who funds VELA EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AFC PUBLIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA CENTER FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE SUCCESS ↗
  • Who funds AZ IMPACT FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
  • Who funds MARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Arizona Community Fou…Virginia G Piper Char…Thunderbirds CharitiesThe Diane and Bruce H…Community Foundation …The Foundation for Co…John F Long Foundatio…Margaret T Morris Fou…Valley of the Sun Uni…Fiesta Events IncPhoenix Suns Charitie…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ168× affinity188 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 · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · John F Long Foundation Inc · Margaret T Morris Foundation · Valley of the Sun United Way · Fiesta Events Inc · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Burton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
62report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Burton Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Burton Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 284 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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