· Private foundation
Reid Burns 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $117k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC | $6,500 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC | $6,000 |
| THE MALALA FUND | $6,000 |
| PANTHERA CORPORATION | $6,000 |
| GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC | $5,400 |
| SEA TURTLE INC | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| MGVP INC | $5,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $4,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC | $4,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Reid Burns Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +2% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- WCWILDLIFE CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL3× · 2023–2025 · $44k · revenue +86%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $37k · revenue +47%
- WCWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC5× · 2021–2025 · $32k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- LOLEXICON OF SUSTAINABILITY INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -74%
- FOFriends of Hoja Nuevagraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +457%
- MCMercy Corpsone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue -19%
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
Protecting the world's remaining primates by monitoring and exposing illegal trade, supporting a worldwide network of overseas sanctuaries and ngo's, publicising the plight of abused primates, and operating a sanctuary for resued gibbons.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Grace gorillas is an international ngo working hard to provide excellent care and rewild rescued grauers gorillas while working alongside congolese communities to promote the conservation of wild gorillas and their habitat.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.
The giraffe conservation foundation usa (gcf-usa) is dedicated to a sustainable future for all giraffe in africa by providing support to organizations working to conserve giraffe and their habitat. gcf-usa selects partners that are…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlife Conservation Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Malala Fund. 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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 44 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 GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PANTHERA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE MALALA FUND ↗
- Who funds MGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ORANG UTAN REPUBLIK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEA TURTLE INC ↗
- Who funds FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GENESIS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals International ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INNOVATION REEF & WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds SPCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds LEXICON OF SUSTAINABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds FieldHaven Feline Center ↗
- Who funds Friends of Hoja Nueva ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL GALAPAGOS TOUR OPERATORS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN 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: PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Reid Burns 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mercy Corps — 47% 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.