Connecticut · 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.
- $78k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $13,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 19
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $374k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations James Burns Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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 | 22 | $76k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $70k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $52k | 82% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $9k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $3k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springfield College | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Hartford | $11,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Quinnipiac University | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| American International College | $6,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Iona University | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cornell University | $4,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Delaware Valley University | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bentley University | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Massachusetts | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Gateway Community College Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springfield College | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Hartford | $11,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Quinnipiac University | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| American International College | $6,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Iona University | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cornell University | $4,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Delaware Valley University | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bentley University | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Massachusetts | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Gateway Community College Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Niagara University | $2,250 | 1 | 0% |
| The Berkshire School Inc | $2,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Sacred Heart University Incorporated | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Roger Williams University | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of New Haven | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($136k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget James Burns Trust supplied at peak.
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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: Ibm International Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About James Burns Trust
- How much does James Burns Trust give?
- James Burns Trust reported 23 grants totaling $77,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 19 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does James Burns Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
- Who are James Burns Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Springfield College ($15k), University of Hartford ($12k), Quinnipiac University ($8k).
- Does James Burns Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does James Burns Trust 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 James Burns Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ibm International Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is James Burns Trust based?
- James Burns Trust is based in CT.
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