· Private foundation
James Burns Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $13,500 |
| CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| SOUTHERN CT STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,500 |
| SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT - HARTFORD CAM | $4,000 |
| TUNXIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST | $2,500 |
| EASTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| IONA UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| ALLAN HANCOCK COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $2,250 |
| AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE | $2,250 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of your 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 +8% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
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
- SCSPRINGFIELD COLLEGE3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +2%
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD2× · 2024–2025 · $12k · revenue +6%- QUQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY3× · 2023–2025 · $8k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSone grant, 2023 · $3k
- ACAHOP CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP ACADEMYone grant, 2023 · $3k
- GCGATEWAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -28%
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.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Since 1902, Franklin University has been a pioneer in meeting the needs of adult students who have the ambition to continue their education in combination with other responsibilities, receiving its status as a tax exempt organization in…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Union Institute & University educates highly motivated adults who seek academic programs to engage, enlighten, and empower them to pursue professional goals and a lifetime of learning and service. Offering accredited bachelors, masters,…
Regis college, through education in the arts, sciences, and professions empowers women and men to challenge themselves academically, to serve and to lead. a catholic college, regis is a diverse and welcoming community guided by the values…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quinnipiac University and the most unlike its peers is Gateway Community College Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 35 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 SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds American International College ↗
- Who funds IONA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BENTLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of New Haven ↗
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: Ibm International Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Burns Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- University of New Haven — 1% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
- Springfield College — 0% of income from government
- American International College — 0% of income from government
- Bentley University — 0% 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.