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.

Donald a Burns Foundation Inc

Donald a Burns Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Donald a Burns Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$281k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$131k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% 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

02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $25k
$10k–50k6 grants · $125k
$50k–250k1 grant · $131k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE	$10,000
THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE DESERT	$10,000
PROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA	$5,000
COMMUNITY COALITION FUNDRAISING	$5,000
HUNT'S MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH	$5,000
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION	$5,000
CHARIDY FOUNDATION	$2,500
BREAKTHROUGH ALLIANCE OF COLORADO INC	$1,000
PATHFINDERS FOR AUTISM	$1,000
HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION	$100

02The need

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 (FY17–23, $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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.6M · 25 repeat orgs$272k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +48% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.6M

$262k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%

+48%

Still filing today

52%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsCrime & LegalOther

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

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The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc
7× · 2017–2024 · $251k · revenue +496%
GA
GLADES ACADEMY INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +39%
PS
PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM
2× · 2022–2023 · $150k · revenue +9%

Funded once

AM
ALTA MIRA RECOVERY PROGRAMS
one grant, 2017 · $60k
MC
MIAMI CANCER INSTITUTE
one grant, 2017 · $25k
TO
THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +1%

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.

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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United States Naval Institute

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.

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Npr Foundation

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…

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American Foreign Service Association

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…

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Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education

National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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Brighton Marine Inc

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.

Health

Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc

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…

Education

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts North America Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

New England Legal Foundation

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…

Civil Rights

Nami Palm Beach County Inc

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.

Health

Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Depression Research Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 61 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/38

Grantees still filing

32/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,930,118Arts & Culture$279,700Crime & Legal$251,500Philanthropy$162,500Youth Development$132,000Health$106,100Civil Rights$65,000

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

14report 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home