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Donald a Burns Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$281k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
23%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$131,250
Organizations funded a year
7 to 25
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$2.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Donald a Burns Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving15$281k33%
FY202313$388k23%
FY202216$410k50%
FY202115$265k27%
FY20207$278k29%
FY201920$457k15%
FY201823$338k35%
FY201725$503kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$1.2MArts & Culture$457kHealth$295kPublic Safety & Disaster$251kEducation$161kHuman Services$145kYouth Development$142kPhilanthropy$135kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 37 grantees
All grantees of Donald a Burns Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lgbtq Victory Fund$1,176,2508n/a
The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc$250,50072%
Glades Academy Inc$160,00081%
Palm Springs Art Museum$150,00022%
Boys & Girls Club of Pbc$132,00050%
American Friends of the Louvre Inc$96,00061%
The Foundation for AIDS Research$75,00030%
The Lgbtq Community Center of the D$55,00031%
Nantucket Atheneum Inc$40,00040%
Promise Fund of Florida Inc$25,00021%
Third Option Foundation$25,00010%
Nantucket Comedy Festival Inc$20,00034%
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc$20,00040%
The Historical Society of Palm Beach County Inc$11,20011%
Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc$10,00010%
Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc$10,00020%
The Hetrick-Martin Institute Inc$10,00010%
Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc$8,50030%
The Society of the Four Arts Inc$5,00010%
Navy Seal Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Facility Guidelines Institute Inc$5,00010%
Nantucket Historical Association$5,00010%
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Hospice Foundation of Palm Beach County$5,00010%
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn$5,00010%
Hunts Memorial United Methodist Church$5,0001n/a
New Wave Artist Residency Inc$5,00011%
God's Love We Deliver Inc$5,00010%
The Perlman Music Program Inc$2,50010%
Charidy Global Foundation$2,5001n/a
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Inc$2,00010%
Center for Creative Education Inc$1,0001n/a
Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc$1,00010%
Pathfinders for Autism$1,00010%
Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons Inc$50010%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$25610%
Hope for Depression Research Foundation$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($583k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Donald a Burns Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc: $250,500 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetGlades Academy Inc: $160,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetPalm Springs Art Museum: $150,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Pbc: $132,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Louvre Inc: $96,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetThe Foundation for AIDS Research: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Lgbtq Community Center of the D: $55,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNantucket Atheneum Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPromise Fund of Florida Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThird Option Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNantucket Comedy Festival Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Historical Society of Palm Beach County Inc: $11,200 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBig Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hetrick-Martin Institute Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNavy Seal Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFacility Guidelines Institute Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNantucket Historical Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice Foundation of Palm Beach County: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Wave Artist Residency Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGod's Love We Deliver Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Perlman Music Program Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLenox Hill Neighborhood House Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPathfinders for Autism: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $256 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope for Depression Research Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA10.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

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About Donald a Burns Foundation Inc

How much does Donald a Burns Foundation Inc give?
Donald a Burns Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $280,850 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Donald a Burns Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (41%), Arts & Culture (16%), Health (10%).
Who are Donald a Burns Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lgbtq Victory Fund ($1.2M), The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc ($251k), Glades Academy Inc ($160k).
Does Donald a Burns Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Donald a Burns Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Donald a Burns Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is Donald a Burns Foundation Inc based?
Donald a Burns Foundation Inc is based in FL.

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 61 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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