· Private foundation
Doris Burwell Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| t | $21,000 |
| g | $5,000 |
| h | $3,000 |
| m | $2,500 |
| V | $2,500 |
| Jr League of Huntsville | $2,500 |
| f | $2,500 |
| f | $1,500 |
| h | $1,500 |
| w | $1,000 |
| f | $1,000 |
| j | $1,000 |
| h | $1,000 |
| l | $1,000 |
| Madison Church of Christ | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +91% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- Tt3× · 2022–2024 · $62k
- Hh3× · 2022–2024 · $22k
- Ff3× · 2022–2024 · $10k
Funded once
- BMBURRITT MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $12k
- Bb3× · 2022–2024 · $5k
- MLM LOUIS SALMON LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
To provide residential living arrangements and care for the terminally ill, helping them prepare for death in their final days of life.
Caring for the terminally ill by managing patient comfort and pain either in the patient's home, nursing home or assisted care facility
To provide emergency medical services to the general public and contract ambulance services.
Provide a live 24 hour initial assistance call center that receives, responds to, follows up and documents requests for assistance, providing information, referrals advocacy and care
Provide counseling, nursing, transportation, and other services as needed to terminally ill patients and their families. patients are recommended by physicians, and pay only if they have insurance.
None
Our mission is to be a home away from home for patients and caregivers seeking medical treatment in nashville hospitals by providing lodging, meals, and other supportive services.
Offers a new hope for comfortable,peaceful and dignified end of life while focusing on patient's goals and wishes at all times.
Providing care and services for terminally ill patients and their families.
To enrich the mind, body and spirit by providing evidenced based clinical care and recovery support services.
Steppingstone farm museum preserves and interprets the rural heritage of harford county.
The huntington county humane society exists to protect and provide shelter for animals and to encourage the humane treatment of all animals in huntington county.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 38 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF HUNTSVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds First Stop Inc ↗
- Who funds FREE 2 TEACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM BOARD OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE ↗
- Who funds NEXT STEP FARMS ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds HUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Smile A While Inc ↗
- Who funds CARE ASSURANCE SYSTEM FOR THE AGING AND HOMEBOUND OF MADISON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SECOND MILE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · Alpha Foundation · The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation · John a Jurenko Et Al Foundation · The Beard-Young Family Foundation · The I3 Cares Foundation · Parker Griffith Family Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Doris Burwell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Doris Burwell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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