Missouri · Private foundation
Em Burger Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $165k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2025
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $48,400
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 64
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Em Burger Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 50 | $165k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 52 | $145k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 64 | $138k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $141k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $130k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $118k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $107k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 50 | $108k | 28% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Progress Inc | $140,000 | 8 | 59% |
| Great Rivers Council - Boy Scouts of America | $29,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Moniteau County Historical Society | $18,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Moniteau County Nutrition Center | $17,776 | 7 | 57% |
| The Elia Wood Paegelow Foundation | $15,500 | 8 | 8% |
| Missouri Farmers Care Foundation | $15,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Childcare Village Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| California Ministerial Alliance | $9,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Salvation Army | $9,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Red Slipper Warrior Project | $5,500 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 99 recipients with no EIN on record ($856k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Em Burger Memorial Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Mfa Oil Foundation · Veterans United Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Em Burger Memorial Foundation
- How much does Em Burger Memorial Foundation give?
- Em Burger Memorial Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $164,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 64 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Em Burger Memorial Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (39%), Community Improvement (16%), Philanthropy (7%).
- Who are Em Burger Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: California Progress Inc ($140k), Great Rivers Council - Boy Scouts of America ($29k), Moniteau County Historical Society ($18k).
- Does Em Burger Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Em Burger Memorial Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Em Burger Memorial Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mfa Oil Foundation, Veterans United Foundation, Edward Jones Foundation.
- Where is Em Burger Memorial Foundation based?
- Em Burger Memorial Foundation is based in MO.
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