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James and Deborah Burrows Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

James and Deborah Burrows Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.6MHuman Services$826kEducation$717kSocial Science$500kReligion$458kInternational$419kArts & Culture$341kAnimals$312kOther$0
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $456k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $535k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAWRENCE J ELLISON INSTITUTE$100,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$100,000
Individual grant recipient$85,000
MARY TYLER MOORE VISION$50,000
ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION$50,000
SINAI TEMPLE$50,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SENTEBALE$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$50,000
LPHSA INC$25,000
ELIZABETH GLASER PEDIATRIC AIDS FOUNDATION$25,000
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK$25,000
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$25,000
DANNY & RON'S RESCUE$25,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$25,000
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$25,000
02The need
03

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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YAMBA MALAWI: $5k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $3k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $3k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $500 → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $500 → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $250 → 14%MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $100k → 14%MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $100k → 14%MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $100k → 14%WE SPARK: $2k → 14%WE SPARK: $500 → 14%HOPE OF THE VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $250 → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $3k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $2k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $500 → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

VT
NH
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 87 repeat orgs$635k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against -2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

87
63

Total granted

$5.1M
$512k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
-2%

Still filing today

68%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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

  • MP
    MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND
    7× · 2017–2023 · $700k · revenue +77%
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    5× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue +50%
  • BH
    BORDER HORSE SLAUGHTER RESCUE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $145k · revenue +864% · 25% of their budget

Funded once

  • AP
    AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +189%
  • VF
    VIRUNGA FUND INC
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -62%
  • AF
    ACTORS FUND OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2021 · $26k
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.

1
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
2
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

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…

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3
California Dental Association Foundation

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.

Science & Tech
4
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
5
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

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.

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6
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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7
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
8
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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9
City of Hope

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

Health
10
American Academy of Dermatology Association Inc

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…

Health
11
New York University

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.

Education
12
Altamed Health Services Corporation

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America; 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.
04the grantee network

107 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/107
Grantees still filing
64/107
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAWRENCE J ELLISON INSTITUTE: $500,000 · OtherLAWRENCE J ELLISON INSTITUTEAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SENTEBALE: $390,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SENTEBALESINAI TEMPLE: $337,000 · OtherSINAI TEMPLECHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $300,000 · OtherCHILDRENS HOSPITALIndividual grant recipient: $155,000 · Other+99 more: $1,892,238 · Other+99 moreELIZABETH GLASER PEDIATRIC AIDS FOUNDATION: $175,000 · HealthELIZABETH GLASE…CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $150,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI ME…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100,750 · HealthST JUDE CHILDRE…Children's Hospital Los Angeles: $80,000 · HealthChildren's Hosp…PROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $66,000 · HealthPROJECT ANGEL F…HEALING CALIFORNIA: $65,000 · HealthHEALING CALIFOR…OUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER: $57,000 · HealthOUR HOUSE GRIEF…KEVIN BABINGTON FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $35,000 · Health+13 more: $67,500 · Health+13 moreMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $700,000 · Human ServicesMOTION PICTUR…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $35,000 · Human Services+8 more: $28,451 · Human ServicesUCLA FOUNDATION: $415,000 · EducationUCLA FOUND…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…MINDFUL SCHOOLS: $45,000 · EducationMINDFUL SC…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Education+7 more: $42,250 · Education+7 moreBORDER HORSE SLAUGHTER RESCUE: $145,000 · AnimalsDANNY & RONS RESCUE: $88,500 · Animals+2 more: $3,500 · AnimalsNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $75,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $26,850 · PhilanthropyADIRONDACK FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyAFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsLPHSA INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsWATER BUFFALO CLUB INC DBA WE BENEFIT CHILDREN: $16,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · Recreation & SportsHOLLYROD FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsGPL POLO CLUB INC: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$3,574,238Health$836,250Human Services$763,451Education$572,250Animals$237,000Philanthropy$162,850Recreation & Sports$122,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $700,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $415,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETH GLASER PEDIATRIC AIDS FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $150,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBORDER HORSE SLAUGHTER RESCUE: $145,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDANNY & RONS RESCUE: $88,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetDIRECTORS GUILD FOUNDATION: $88,500 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $83,130 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION FUND: $72,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $66,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHEALING CALIFORNIA: $65,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetOUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER: $57,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAT THE WELL PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetAFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMINDFUL SCHOOLS: $45,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVIRUNGA FUND INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEL DORADO FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $26,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLPHSA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEXALT YOUTH: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTROOPS FIRST FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWATER BUFFALO CLUB INC DBA WE BENEFIT CHILDREN: $16,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetANGELS AT RISK: $15,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetADIRONDACK FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJustWorld International Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSHAREWELL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 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 NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds THE RAPE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Jewish Community Foun…California Community …The Ahmanson Foundati…The Apatow-Mann Famil…The Katie McGrath & J…The David Geffen Foun…Johnny Carson Foundat…Adirondack FoundationThe Marilyn and Jeffr…Jewish Communal FundThe Annenberg Foundat…Sidney Kohl Family Fo…
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA23.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 James and Deborah Burrows Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James and Deborah Burrows Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Northern Stage Company: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
25report 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 163 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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