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Martin and Shirley Burns Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$1.4MHuman Services$408kAnimals$178kInternational$155kEducation$90kCivil Rights$75kHealth$45kEnvironment$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $335k
$25,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALL THINGS POSSIBLE$80,000
HARVEST CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP$80,000
HARVEST CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP$75,000
CALVARY CHAPEL CHINO HILLS$50,000
MERCURY ONE$50,000
PREBORN$30,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$30,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$25,000
TURNING POINT USA$25,000
FRIENDS OF THE IDF$25,000
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP CHRISTIANS AND JEWS$25,000
SANDALS CHURCH - HUNTER PARK$25,000
JAFI$10,000
BOISE RESCUE MISSION$5,000
PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES$5,000
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 (FY19–25, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $5k → 15%PREBORN: $30k → 16%PREBORN: $30k → 16%PREBORN: $30k → 16%HOPE OF THE VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $33k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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IL
MI
NY
OR
IN
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
TX
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 16 repeat orgs$362k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
15

Total granted

$2.2M
$277k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+42%

Still filing today

69%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsCrime & LegalInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • WG
    With God All Things Are Possible
    5× · 2021–2025 · $350k · revenue +8%
  • GARY SINISE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $195k · revenue +39%
  • BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • OS
    Operation Second Chance Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $55k · revenue +89%
  • RM
    ROGO MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2023 · $45k
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue +78%
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.

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Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
2
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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3
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
4
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
5
Samaritan's Purse

Samaritan's purse is a nondenominational evangelical christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. since 1970, samaritan's purse has helped meet the needs of people who are victims of war,…

Religion
6
Prison Fellowship International

To transform the lives of prisoners, their families, and victims through a global network of ministry partners.

Crime & Legal
7
Amazing Facts International

To proclaim to the world the everlasting gospel of revelation 14:6-12 and to encourage revival in the remnant church by leading people to embrace salvation by faith in jesus, to establish them in the church, and to disciple all believers…

Religion
8
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
9
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
10
The National World War Ii Museum Inc

The national wwii museum tells the story of the american experience in the war that changed the world-why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today-so that all generations will understand the price of freedom and be inspired…

Arts & Culture
11
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence

We're freeing america from gun violence.continued on schedule oin a country where firearms outnumber people, our country's gun violence epidemic requires a multi-pronged approach - and that's what brady, the leading gun violence prevention…

Crime & Legal
12
Project Dynamo Inc

To deploy personnel and resources to global flashpoints where the us government has little to no formal diplomatic and military presence, either refused to conduct evacuations of us persons, allies, or vulnerable populations or where those…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prison Fellowship Ministries; the most unlike its peers is Pile of Puppies. 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

24 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. 24 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
19/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARVEST CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: $503,333 · OtherHARVEST CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIPCALVARY CHAPEL CHINO HILLS: $325,000 · OtherCALVARY CHAPEL CHINO HILLSSANDALS CHURCH - HUNTER PARK: $145,000 · OtherSANDALS CHURCH - HUNTER PARKPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $52,500 · OtherOperation Second Chance Inc: $55,000 · Other+18 more: $370,834 · Other+18 moreWith God All Things Are Possible: $350,000 · Youth DevelopmentWith God All Th…GARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $195,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINI…PILE OF PUPPIES: $20,000 · PhilanthropyPILE OF P…BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $150,000 · AnimalsSPCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $7,500 · AnimalsMercury One Inc: $130,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $25,000 · InternationalMission Pre-Born Inc: $90,000 · Human ServicesHOPE THE MISSION: $33,333 · Human ServicesHAPPYBOTTOMS: $5,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesADVOCATES FOR FAITH AND FREEDOM: $70,000 · Crime & LegalPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $20,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,451,667Youth Development$350,000Philanthropy$215,000Animals$157,500International$155,000Human Services$133,333Crime & Legal$90,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWith God All Things Are Possible: $350,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $195,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $150,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMercury One Inc: $130,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMission Pre-Born Inc: $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetADVOCATES FOR FAITH AND FREEDOM: $70,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetOperation Second Chance Inc: $55,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $52,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $37,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JAMES STOREHOUSE INCORPORATED: $33,334 over 1y, 12% of budgetHOPE THE MISSION: $33,333 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPILE OF PUPPIES: $20,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetTHE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAPPYBOTTOMS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 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.

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.

Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Martin and Shirley Burns Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Martin and Shirley Burns Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 36 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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