How much does James F and Nelle E Burgess Foundation give?

James F and Nelle E Burgess Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $1,642 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does James F and Nelle E Burgess Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (25%), International (19%), Environment (16%).

Who are James F and Nelle E Burgess Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: First Baptist Church of Greenville S Carolina ($1k), United Ministries ($900), Meals on Wheels Inc ($735).

Does James F and Nelle E Burgess Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does James F and Nelle E Burgess 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 James F and Nelle E Burgess Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Maddrey Foundation, Daniel-Mickel Foundation, The Jolley Foundation.

Where is James F and Nelle E Burgess Foundation based?

James F and Nelle E Burgess Foundation is based in SC.

James F and Nelle E Burgess Foundation

James F and Nelle E Burgess Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

James F and Nelle E Burgess Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$312

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$4kInternational$3kEnvironment$2kHousing & Shelter$1kFood & Nutrition$885Education$650Philanthropy$620Community Improvement$575Other$0

02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$85

Median grant

States reached

$86k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
World Vision	$312
First Baptist Church of Greenville	$250
Papa Tank Theater for Inclusion	$250
Furman University	$200
Woodlands Foundation	$150
Upstate Forever	$100
Meals on Wheels	$85
United Ministries	$50
Conserving Carolina	$50
Natureland Trust	$50
CVSC	$50
Greenville Free Medical Clinic	$50
Friends of Lake Keowee	$45

02The need

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 (FY19–19, $150) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$10k · 26 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$10k

$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%

+33%

Still filing today

62%

22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $545 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentHousing & ShelterReligionHealthEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

UM
UNITED MINISTRIES
8× · 2017–2024 · $900 · revenue +58%
MO
MEALS ON WHEELS INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $735 · revenue +186%
SW
SUSTAINING WAY
5× · 2017–2022 · $575 · revenue +121%

Funded once

LC
Lake Conestee Nature Preserve
one grant, 2022 · $150
HH
HARVEST HOPE HOME FOOD BANK
one grant, 2018 · $100
AR
AMERICAN RED CROSS
one grant, 2018 · $100

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.

Conestee Foundation Inc

Through responsible stewardship of our unique ecological resource, we provide inclusive opportunities for meaningful connection, discovery, and education in nature.

Environment

Three Rivers Land Trust Inc

Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland

Environment

Charleston Waterkeeper

Charleston waterkeeper's mission it to protect and restore charleston's waterways for our community and future generations. we do that through an effective mix of boots-on-the-water stewardship and data-driven advocacy designed to protect…

Environment

Blue Ridge Resource Conserv and Devel

Blue ridge rc&d works with partners to conserve natural resources, foster environmental stewardship, and support sustainable community development in northwest north carolina.

Environment

South Carolina Wildlife Partnership

Our mission is to protect our state's hunting heritage and ensure this sports future for generations to come.

Animals

Catawba Lands Conservancy

As a nationally accredited land trust, we conserve and manage land for public benefit in North Carolinas Southern Piedmont. We have conserved 235 properties, totaling 17,786 acres of land. We also facilitate the creation of a 1600 mile…

Environment

Atlantic Coast Conservancy Inc

The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…

Environment

Congaree Land Trust

The congaree land trust was established to promote voluntary conservation of scenic lands, open spaces, farms, forests, natural areas and significant habitats in central south carolina.

Environment

Foundation for a Greater Greenwood County Inc

Providing leadership to enhance the quality of life in greenwood through strategic long-term vision and collaborative community development initiatives.

Philanthropy

Lowcountry Land Trust Inc

To protect land and water forever, nurture relationships between people and place, and connect conservation to community.

Environment

Upper Savannah Land Trust

The mission of the upper savannah land trust is to encourage and support conservation of natural and scenic lands, farms, forests, waterways, and open spaces on our eight-county area: abbeville, anderson, edgefield, greenwood, laurens,…

Environment

South Carolina Farm Bureau Land Trust Inc

To help farmers and agricultural landowners protect their land and preserve its purpose.

Food & Nutrition

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Carolina Wildlife Federation; the most unlike its peers is Challenge to Conquer Cancer. 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

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 68 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

19/26

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$8,076International$2,826Environment$1,165Religion$1,000Housing & Shelter$775Food & Nutrition$700Community Improvement$575

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

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.

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.

The Maddrey FoundationSC24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Maddrey Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Yeargin Foundation · Elbert W Rogers Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · W W Burgiss Charities Inc · Sisk Foundation Buncombe St Methodist Church · Helga Marston Foundation · Spinks Family Foundation · Kellett 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 F and Nelle E Burgess Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James F and Nelle E Burgess Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

6report 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home