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Burton US Charitable Trust at a glance

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Burton US Charitable Trust

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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.7M
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 2024.

Religion$2.7MHuman Services$450kPhilanthropy$208kHealth$170kHousing & Shelter$100kFood & Nutrition$100kEducation$100kCrime & Legal$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k5 grants · $350k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.7M
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VINTAGE CHURCH$1,665,000
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC$100,000
COMPUTERS 2 SD KIDS$100,000
FRIENDS IN DEED$50,000
BABY2BABY$50,000
CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $430k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE: $10k → 14%HARVEST HOME INC: $100k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $100k → 14%THE DREAM CENTER FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $100k → 14%CHILDREN MUSIC FUND: $20k → 14%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 3 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
13

Total granted

$2.7M
$798k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-73%
+33%

Still filing today

33%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyReligionHealthEducationOther
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

  • VC
    VINTAGE CHURCH
    7× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M
  • CC
    CALVARY COMMUNITY CHURCH
    5× · 2017–2021 · $315k
  • AT
    AWAKENING TO GOD MINISTRIES
    3× · 2019–2021 · $144k · revenue -73% · 45% of their budget

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +17%
  • UR
    UNION RESCUE MISSIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +52%
  • DC
    DREAM CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +64%
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.

1
Hollywood Food Coalition

Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…

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2
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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3
Casa Teresa Inc

To provide a temporary home and on-going support for pregnant women, and women with newborns over the age of 18 who are alone. counseling and educational programs prepare these women to make loving and informed decisions for themselves and…

Human Services
4
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
5
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
6
Community Medical Centers Inc

The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.

Health
7
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…

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8
California Association of Food Banks

California association of food banks (cafb) is a non-profit public benefit corporation located in oakland, california. together with its 41-member foodbanks, cafb is the largest charitable hunger-relief and anti-hunger leader in the state.…

Food & Nutrition
9
Los Angeles Mission Inc

The los angeles mission breaks the cycle of homelessness and poverty, by stabilizing people in a safe and spiritual environment, connecting them to solutions and walking with them on their journey.

Housing & Shelter
10
South Central Family Health Center

To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.

Health
11
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition
12
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Union Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is Awakening to God Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 21 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VINTAGE CHURCH: $2,209,000 · OtherVINTAGE CHURCHCALVARY COMMUNITY CHURCH: $315,000 · OtherCALVARY COMMUNITY CHURCH+9 more: $497,500 · Other+9 moreST JOSEPH CENTER: $100,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH CE…UNION RESCUE MISSION: $100,000 · Human ServicesUNION RESCUE…DREAM CENTER FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Human ServicesDREAM CENTER…Harvest Home Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesHarvest Home…CHILDRENS MUSIC FUND: $20,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesAWAKENING TO GOD MINISTRIES: $144,000 · ReligionALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 · HealthCOMPUTERS 2 SD KIDS: $100,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF VENTURA COUNTY INC: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,021,500Human Services$430,000Religion$144,000Health$100,000Education$100,000Philanthropy$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAWAKENING TO GOD MINISTRIES: $144,000 over 3y, 45% of budgetST JOSEPH CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDREAM CENTER FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPUTERS 2 SD KIDS: $100,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetHarvest Home Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetBABY2BABY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES: $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS MUSIC FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetUNITED WAY OF VENTURA COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

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.

The Annenberg Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Annenberg FoundationPA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Annenberg Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 US Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burton US Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Burton US Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Burton US Charitable Trust 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 21 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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