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Jane Burson &John Burson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$39k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
92%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$11,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 13
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$830k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 92% of the organizations Jane Burson &John Burson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 88% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$39k8%
FY202413$41k92%
FY20232$33k50%
FY20221$45k0%
FY20211$35k0%
FY20202$36k50%
FY20192$34k0%
FY20182$24k50%
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$173kFood & Nutrition$42kHealth$35kReligion$22kHousing & Shelter$16kHuman Services$10kAnimals$8kPhilanthropy$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Michigan$30,00029%
Cherry Street Mission Ministries$16,00030%
Public Broadcasting Foundation of Northwest Ohio$8,00020%
United Way of Greater Toledo$6,00020%
Regents of the University of Michigan$5,0002n/a
Georgetown University$1,00020%
The University of Findlay$10010%

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($259k), not named here.

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How do I get to Jane Burson &John Burson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jane Burson &John Burson Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Jane Burson &John Burson Foundation

How much does Jane Burson &John Burson Foundation give?
Jane Burson &John Burson Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $39,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Jane Burson &John Burson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (53%), Food & Nutrition (13%), Health (11%).
Who are Jane Burson &John Burson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Michigan ($30k), Cherry Street Mission Ministries ($16k), Public Broadcasting Foundation of Northwest Ohio ($8k).
Does Jane Burson &John Burson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 92% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jane Burson &John Burson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Jane Burson &John Burson Foundation based?
Jane Burson &John Burson Foundation is based in OH.

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 19 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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