· Private foundation
Burton Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
56% of Burton Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Because We Care Philanthropy Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $310k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BECAUSE WE CARE PHILANTHROPY INC | $200,000 |
| OKLAHOMA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY INC | $110,000 |
| HOPE REINS | $36,000 |
| HOMELESS ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
88 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 87 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ABALFRED B MACLAY JR DAY SCHOOL4× · 2019–2023 · $419k · revenue +45%
- CECHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION7× · 2017–2023 · $130k · revenue +90%
HOPE REINS6× · 2019–2024 · $121k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- CNCATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATone grant, 2023 · $30k
- GTGIVE TO RESEARCHgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +31%
- BKBISHOP KELLEY HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
The mission of tall timbers research,inc. is to foster exemplary land stewardship through research, conservation and education.our primary research focus is the ecology of fire and natural resource management including bobwhite quail and…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.
Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.
Wetlands america trust, inc. is a nonprofit organization formed in 1985 to expand ducks unlimited, inc's mission to provide leadership in the protection of the natural balance of wetlands ecosystems ensuring the future viability of…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oklahoma Educational Television Authority 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
79 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. 79 of the 130 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds BECAUSE WE CARE PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds ALFRED B MACLAY JR DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE REINS ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Christian University ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds The Becket Fund ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION AT SAINT FRANCIS ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BIGHORN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Boys Republic ↗
- Who funds Birthright of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds Big Bend Hospice Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL MINDSZENTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OETA INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE TO RESEARCH ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Pga Tour Inc · The Michael Cascone Jr & Elizabeth Belyea Cascone Family Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · Csx Foundation Inc · George Kaiser Family 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 Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Operation New Uniform Inc — 100% of income from government
- North Florida Land Trust Inc — 81% of income from government
- Hubbard House Inc — 42% of income from government
- Im Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless Inc — 23% of income from government
- Team River Runner Incorporated — 19% of income from government
- Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I — 1% of income from government
- Clara White Mission Inc — 1% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare Inc — 0% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Oklahoma Christian University — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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