Idaho · Private foundation
Martin and Shirley Burns Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $545k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 16
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Martin and Shirley Burns Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $515k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $553k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $415k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $418k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $300k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $200k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $115k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| With God All Things Are Possible | $350,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Calvary Chapel Chino Hills | $325,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $195,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Best Friends Animal Society | $150,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Mercury One Inc | $130,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mission Pre-Born Inc | $90,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Advocates for Faith and Freedom | $70,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Operation Second Chance Inc | $55,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Prager University Foundation | $52,500 | 4 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $45,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($758k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Martin and Shirley Burns Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
Compare Martin and Shirley Burns Family Foundation with peer funders
About Martin and Shirley Burns Family Foundation
- How much does Martin and Shirley Burns Family Foundation give?
- Martin and Shirley Burns Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $545,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 16 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Martin and Shirley Burns Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (55%), Human Services (16%), Animals (7%).
- Who are Martin and Shirley Burns Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: With God All Things Are Possible ($350k), Calvary Chapel Chino Hills ($325k), Gary Sinise Foundation ($195k).
- Does Martin and Shirley Burns Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Martin and Shirley Burns Family 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 Martin and Shirley Burns Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Endowment Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Martin and Shirley Burns Family Foundation based?
- Martin and Shirley Burns Family Foundation is based in ID.
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