· Private foundation
Jane Burson &John Burson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ZOAR LUTHERAN CHURCH | $11,000 |
| CHERRY STREET MISSION MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATIO NW OH | $4,000 |
| TOLEDO ZOO FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| JUSTICE FOR ALL | $2,500 |
| WILIAMS COLLEGE ALUMNI FUND | $1,000 |
| GEORGETOWN LAW | $500 |
| OLD NEWSBOYS GOOD FELLOWS ASSOC | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FINDLAY | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Michigan2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue +202%
- PBPUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO2× · 2024–2025 · $8k · revenue +0%
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- NMNATIONAL MUSEUM OF GREAT LAKESone grant, 2023 · $10k
- CCCARVER CAMP OF METROPOLITAN MISSIONone grant, 2018 · $4k
- TCTOLEDO CLUB HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $2k
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.
6 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. 6 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jane Burson &John Burson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jane Burson &John Burson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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