· Private foundation
Donald a Burns Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
- Under $10k8 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $131k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LGBTQ VICTORY FUND | $131,250 |
| PALM BEACH POLICE FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| AMFAR THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH | $25,000 |
| GLADES ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| COMPASS | $10,000 |
| THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE DESERT | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE | $10,000 |
| PROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA | $5,000 |
| HUNT'S MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY COALITION FUNDRAISING | $5,000 |
| CHARIDY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BREAKTHROUGH ALLIANCE OF COLORADO INC | $1,000 |
| PATHFINDERS FOR AUTISM | $1,000 |
| HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $100 |
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, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +67% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 5 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TPThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $251k · revenue +496%
- GAGLADES ACADEMY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +39%
- PSPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM2× · 2022–2023 · $150k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- AMALTA MIRA RECOVERY PROGRAMSone grant, 2017 · $60k
- MCMIAMI CANCER INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $25k
- TOTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +1%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
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…
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…
The specific purposes for which bafta na is organized is to promote, maintain, improve and advance original and creative work among individuals employed professionally in film and television production and allied industries, to create and…
New england legal foundation (nelf) is the leading non-profit public interest law firm in the region addressing policy and constitutional concerns related to free enterprise. its mission is promoting public discourse on the proper role of…
Nami palm beach county provides advocacy, education, support, and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Depression Research Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Foundation for Aids Research. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 61 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 The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GLADES ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE D ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET COMEDY FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
- Who funds FACILITY GUIDELINES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Donald a Burns 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.
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cape Cod Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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.