· Private foundation
James and Deborah Burrows Foundation
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 $10k17 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $456k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $535k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| LAWRENCE J ELLISON INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $85,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $50,000 |
| SINAI TEMPLE | $50,000 |
| MARY TYLER MOORE VISION | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SENTEBALE | $50,000 |
| ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| DANNY & RON'S RESCUE | $25,000 |
| CEDARS SINAI | $25,000 |
| HEALING CALIFORNIA | $25,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK | $25,000 |
| PALM SPRINGS PLAZA THEATRE | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $25,000 |
| ELIZABETH GLASER PEDIATRIC AIDS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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, $363k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
87 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 8 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k 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
- MPMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND7× · 2017–2023 · $700k · revenue +77%
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER5× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue +50%- BHBORDER HORSE SLAUGHTER RESCUE4× · 2020–2024 · $145k · revenue +864% · 25% of their budget
Funded once
- APAFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +189%
- VFVIRUNGA FUND INCone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -62%
- AFACTORS FUND OF AMERICAone grant, 2021 · $26k
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.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.
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 Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
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City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
To represent the interests of dermatologists and their patients. to influence and be a credible resource for public and private entities related to all policies and regulations that have the potential to affect the delivery of dermatologic…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America and the most unlike its peers is Border Horse Slaughter Rescue. 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 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
107 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. 107 of the 163 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 MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH GLASER PEDIATRIC AIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds BORDER HORSE SLAUGHTER RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds DANNY & RONS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds DIRECTORS GUILD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION FUND ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL FOOD ↗
- Who funds HEALING CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds AT THE WELL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MINDFUL SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds KEVIN BABINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE RAPE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Apatow-Mann Family Foundation Inc · The Katie McGrath & Jj Abrams Family Foundation · The David Geffen Foundation · Johnny Carson Foundation · Adirondack Foundation · The Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Annenberg Foundation · Sidney Kohl Family 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 James and Deborah Burrows Foundation 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Northern Stage Company — 5% 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.