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James R Burroughs Family Foundation at a glance

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James R Burroughs Family 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.

$83k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$184kHealth$173kYouth Development$115kHuman Services$111kAnimals$74kFood & Nutrition$50kPublic Benefit$23kEnvironment$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $28k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHARE INC$55,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
WESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL$5,000
ST JOHNS MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
COVENANT NURSERY SCHOOL$2,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $1k → 14%KAPLAN PUBLIC SERVICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%KAPLAN PUBLIC SERVICE FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%SHARE INC: $13k → 14%SHARE INC: $5k → 14%SHARE INC: $5k → 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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$679k · 18 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
6

Total granted

$679k
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+197%

Still filing today

44%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • ED
    EVERYBODY DANCE LA
    5× · 2017–2023 · $115k · revenue +26%
  • SI
    SHARE INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $98k · revenue +67%
  • CW
    CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $55k · revenue +248%

Funded once

  • SF
    SKETCHERS FOUNDATION 'SAVE OUR RESTAURANTS'
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • IA
    IRAQ & AFGANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
  • MF
    MASSACHUSETTS FALLEN HEROES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +31%
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
All About Kids La
Philanthropy
2
Robins Kaplan Foundation
—
3
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
—
4
Los Angeles Accessible Apartments C
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5
The Oaks School

In an atmosphere of mutual respect and responsibility, the oaks school prepares students to meet the world with the combined wisdom of an intelligent mind, a skilled hand, and a compassionate heart.

Education
6
Kaufman Arts District Foundation
—
7
The California Wellness Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Kate Sidran Family Foundation
—
9
The Mirman School for Gifted Children

We cultivate the boundless potential of highly gifted children, nurture their passions and talents, and develop a diverse community of creative and constructive lifelong learners.

Education
10
Lazare and Charlotte Kaplan Foundation
—
11
The California Endowment
Philanthropy
12
Carlthorp School

Carlthorp school is an independent, nonprofit day school for children in grades k-6. carlthorp school provides a strong academic foundation in a diverse and nurturing school community that emphasizes traditional values, disciplined work…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Westside Neighborhood School; the most unlike its peers is Downtown Women's Center. 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

10 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. 10 of the 26 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RICHSTONE FAMILY CENTER: $90,000 · OtherRICHSTONE FAMILY CENTERTHE UCLA FOUNDATION FRIENDS OF THE SEMEL INSTITUTE: $79,500 · OtherTHE UCLA FOUNDATION FRIENDS OF THE SEMEL INSTITUTESKETCHERS FOUNDATION 'SAVE OUR RESTAURANTS': $50,000 · OtherSKETCHERS FOUNDATION 'SAVE OUR RESTAURANTS'ST JOHNS MEDICAL CENTER: $35,000 · OtherST JOHNS MEDICAL CENTERDUCKS UNLIMITED: $33,500 · OtherDUCKS UNLIMITEDCURTIS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherCURTIS SCHOOL FOUNDATIONST JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER: $25,000 · OtherST JOHN'S HEALTH CENTERUCLA FOUNDATION LAW SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherST RAPHAEL SCHOOL: $18,500 · OtherTHE KAPLAN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Other+8 more: $42,000 · Other+8 moreEVERYBODY DANCE LA: $115,000 · EducationEVERYBODY DANCE LATHE SHERMAN OAKS NURSERY SCHOOL: $22,500 · EducationTHE SHERMAN OAKS NURSE…WESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL: $13,000 · EducationWESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD …SHARE INC: $97,500 · Human ServicesSHARE INCKAPLAN PUBLIC SERVICE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesKAPLAN PUBLIC SE…+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $55,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS FALLEN HEROES INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$433,500Education$150,500Human Services$113,500Environment$55,000Arts & Culture$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEVERYBODY DANCE LA: $115,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetSHARE INC: $97,500 over 7y, 11% of budgetCALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $55,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCURTIS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHERMAN OAKS NURSERY SCHOOL: $22,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetKAPLAN PUBLIC SERVICE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetTHE KAPLAN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 78% of budgetWESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS FALLEN HEROES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 EVERYBODY DANCE LA ↗
  • Who funds SHARE INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CURTIS SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE SHERMAN OAKS NURSERY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds KAPLAN PUBLIC SERVICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE KAPLAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS FALLEN HEROES INC ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗

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.

California Community …American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 R Burroughs Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James R Burroughs Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 26 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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