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The Burbick Foundation at a glance

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The Burbick Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$19k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Education$653kPublic Benefit$217kHealth$70kPhilanthropy$69kCrime & Legal$36kArts & Culture$22kFood & Nutrition$13kHuman Services$12kOther$0
02FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
$16,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF KENT$16,000
LEADERSHIP PORTAGE COUNTY$3,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TOUCHING THE FUTURE TODAY: $3k → 16%KENT STATE UNIV FDN: $222k → 12%BOY SCOUTS-GREAT TRAIL COUNCIL: $5k → 13%NEWTON FALLS BOOSTER CLUB: $100k → 16%ALDERSON BROADDUS UNIVERSITY: $150k → 20%CITY OF KENT: $57k → 12%ALDERSON BROADDUS UNIVERSITY: $110k → 20%CITY OF KENT: $49k → 12%HUDSON CITY SCHOOLS: $3k → 13%CITY OF KENT: $48k → 12%SIX DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL COMPACT: $3k → 13%KENT STATE UNIV FDN: $23k → 12%CITY OF KENT: $18k → 12%CITY OF KENT: $16k → 12%KELLY REEVES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%LEADERSHIP PORTAGE COUNTY: $14k → 12%COLEMAN FOUNDATION: $13k → 12%THE PORTAGE FOUNDATION: $11k → 12%LEADERSHIP PORTAGE COUNTY: $10k → 12%KUSO - KENT HERITAGE FESTIVAL: $9k → 12%KUSO - KENT HERITAGE FESTIVAL: $7k → 12%KENT UNITED SERV ORG: $7k → 12%THE PORTAGE FOUNDATION: $6k → 12%KELLY REEVES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%ADAM S HAMILTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5k → 12%COLEMAN FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%KELLY REEVES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%GREEN SPROUT TRANS PORTAGE: $4k → 12%LEADERSHIP PORTAGE COUNTY: $4k → 12%LEADERSHIP PORTAGE COUNTY: $3k → 12%KENT ROTARY FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%CROOKED RIVER ART COUNCIL: $3k → 12%CROOKED RIVER ART COUNCIL: $3k → 12%HAYMAKER FARMERS MARKET: $3k → 12%BEN CURTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%BEN CURTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%KENT STATE UNIV FDN: $3k → 12%BEN CURTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%BEN CURTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%PORTAGE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $30k → 12%PORTAGE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $30k → 12%BIOMED: $25k → 12%CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER - PORTAGE: $23k → 12%CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER - PORTAGE: $14k → 12%PORTAGE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%PORTAGE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%UNITED WAY PORTAGE COUNTY: $3k → 12%UNITED WAY PORTAGE COUNTY: $3k → 12%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.
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.
$943k · 22 repeat orgs$155k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2021, 20 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
14

Total granted

$943k
$155k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+47%

Still filing today

32%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationCommunity ImprovementHealthPublic BenefitPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • KS
    KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $247k · revenue +5%
  • LP
    Leadership Portage County Inc
    4× · 2017–2021 · $30k · revenue +38%
  • TK
    THE KELLY REEVES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $26k · revenue +658%

Funded once

  • NF
    NEWTON FALLS BOOSTER CLUB
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • B
    BIOMED
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • KU
    KENT UNITED SERV ORG
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
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.

1
Kendall Foundation Inc

Dedicated to Helping Ashtabula, Lake and Geauga County Thrive

Environment
2
Portage Parks and Recreation Foundation Inc

To promote and assist the portage parks department

Recreation & Sports
3
Kent Schools Foundation

Educational excellence in the classroom

Education
4
Kent Parks Foundation

To fund the city of kent's park department

—
5
Portage Legacy Inc F/K/a Portage Health Inc

N/a

—
6
The Huntington-Akron Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Port Family Foundation
—
8
Huron University Foundation Inc
Education
9
Rotary Club of Kent Foundation

Provide grants to local and international charitable organizations and scholarships to local students

Philanthropy
10
Kent Land Trust Foundation Inc

To manage a capital reserve for the benefit of the kent land trust, inc., an affiliated non-profit organization.

Environment
11
Kewanee Rotary Foundation

To support various public charities, community events, and school activities in the kewanee area.

—
12
Rotary Foundation of Kenosha West

Financial support of 501(c)3 organizations

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kent State University Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Honor Flight Cleveland Inc. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 38 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALDERSON BROADDUS UNIVERSITY INC: $260,000 · EducationALDERSON BROADDUS UNIVERSITY INCKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $246,500 · EducationKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONCITY OF KENT: $187,413 · OtherCITY OF KENTNEWTON FALLS BOOSTER CLUB: $100,000 · OtherNEWTON FALLS BOOSTER CLUBCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER - PORTAGE: $36,250 · OtherCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER - PORTAGEBIOMED: $25,000 · OtherTHE PORTAGE FOUNDATION: $18,000 · OtherCOLEMAN FOUNDATION: $17,500 · Other+24 more: $91,500 · Other+24 moreROBINSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $70,000 · HealthLeadership Portage County Inc: $29,500 · Public BenefitTHE KELLY REEVES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $25,800 · PhilanthropyKENT ROTARY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Community ImprovementHERITAGE OHIO INC: $2,000 · Community ImprovementHAYMAKER FARMERS MARKET INC: $2,500 · Food & Nutrition
Education$506,500Other$475,663Health$70,000Public Benefit$29,500Philanthropy$25,800Community Improvement$7,000Food & Nutrition$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALDERSON BROADDUS UNIVERSITY INC: $260,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetROBINSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetLeadership Portage County Inc: $29,500 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetTHE KELLY REEVES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $25,800 over 4y, 20% of budgetTHE PORTAGE FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBEN CURTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetKENT ROTARY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetHERITAGE OHIO INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHonor Flight Cleveland Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds ALDERSON BROADDUS UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROBINSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Leadership Portage County Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE KELLY REEVES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE PORTAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BEN CURTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KENT ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAYMAKER FARMERS MARKET INC ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE OHIO INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Honor Flight Cleveland Inc ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO4.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 The Burbick Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Burbick Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Burbick Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Burbick Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 38 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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