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Donegan Burns Foundation Co Bettye Guerin Burns
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of DONEGAN BURNS FOUNDATION CO BETTYE GUERIN BURNS’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REINS | $126,000 |
| THERAPEUDIC RIDING OF TUCSON | $104,000 |
| SOAR THERAPEUTIC RIDING | $37,900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $36,800 |
| RAD | $25,665 |
| Divine Education Foundation | $25,000 |
| CONNECT MED | $20,000 |
| Military Officers Association of Am | $15,000 |
| FIRST TEE IMG Academy | $15,000 |
| TEE UP FOR THE TROOPS | $10,000 |
| FAITH AID | $3,000 |
| Maui Humane Society | $2,500 |
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 (FY22–22, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
43 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TRTherapeutic Riding of Tucson Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $413k · revenue +20%
- SASOAR ARENA THERAPEUTIC RIDING3× · 2022–2024 · $104k · revenue +4%
- CICONNECTMED INTERNATIONAL7× · 2018–2024 · $98k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- VLVeterans LYFE Servicesone grant, 2022 · $35k · 95% of their budget
- RTRISE Therapeutic Equestrian Centerone grant, 2023 · $30k
- NTNDR THERAPEUTIC RIDINGgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +164%
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.
Our mission is to provide transformative equine-assisted therapy that foster trauma recovery, suicide prevention, and resilience building for individuals and communities.
To provide therapeautic benefits to handicapped citizens through a horseback riding program.
Our mission is to enhance the lives of individuals living with physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral challenges by providing innovative, accessible and safe equine-assisted therapeutic programs of the highest quality. we are…
At first nature foundation, our mission is to help program participants grow their emotional resilience, self-confidence, and self-awareness, by partnering with nature and our wise herd of horses, who help facilitate these outcomes. at our…
To bring strength and healing to children with special needs and the san francisco community through the love and care of horses; to encourage young people in compassion and leadership through volunteerism.
To promote wellness for people with personal challenges who can benefit from equine-assisted activities and therapies in a safe and supportive environment.
Valor Healing Farms has been created to serve the military community including veterans, active duty, caregivers, families and first responders.Through farming internships, therapeutic horticulture, sustainable gardening, animal-assisted…
We improve quality of life through equine-based therapy to physically, mentally and socially/emotionally challenged individuals. Our unique program integrates academic, social and physical skills using the horse as a catalyst.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of San Diego County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alpha Gamma Sigma. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 69 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 Therapeutic Riding of Tucson Inc ↗
- Who funds SOAR ARENA THERAPEUTIC RIDING ↗
- Who funds CONNECTMED INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of North County ↗
- Who funds MAUI PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Pegasus Therapeutic Riding Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds DEVINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Veterans LYFE Services ↗
- Who funds NDR THERAPEUTIC RIDING ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC ↗
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.
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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 Donegan Burns Foundation Co Bettye Guerin Burns 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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