· Private foundation
Jerry L and Barbara J Burris Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE OAKS ACADEMY | $60,348 |
| BUTLER UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| CHRIST CENTRAL | $8,000 |
| THE CHILDRENS' MUSEUM OF INDIANAPOLIS | $8,000 |
| NEWFIELDS SUMMER CAMP SCHOLARSHIPS | $5,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $3,000 |
| MADISON AREA YMCA | $3,000 |
| BAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TOThe Oaks Academy Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $492k · revenue +114%
- TCThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +96%
- BUButler University4× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- DLDAVID LAWRENCE FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -40%
- FOFellowship of Christian Athletes of SCone grant, 2017 · $8k
- NJNatl Jr Tennis & Learning of Indianapolisone grant, 2017 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
The international tennis hall of fame (ithf) is a non-profit organization that preserves the history of tennis and celebrates to inspire excellence across generations globally. founded in 1954 in newport, ri, the ithf honors tennis'…
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Benefit, perform, and carry out the charitable, educational, and other exempt purposes of indiana university health ball memorial hospital, inc. ("iu health ball memorial hospital") and related organizations, and to support activities…
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oliver Gospel Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds The Oaks Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds Newfields Inc ↗
- Who funds Butler University ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds DAVID LAWRENCE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana Repertory Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MADISON NJ ↗
- Who funds BAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds Oliver Gospel Mission ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DAVID LAWRENCE FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Naples Music Club Inc ↗
- Who funds Lighthouse for Life ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds National Junior Tennis & Learning of Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS TENNIS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Montclair NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds VALERIE'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CARMEL DADS CLUB INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Myrta J Pulliam Charitable Trust co Holly Pantzer · The Ackerman Foundation · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Jerry L and Barbara J Burris Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- David Lawrence Mental Health Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Madison Nj — 1% of income from government
- Valerie's House Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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