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The Burgett 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.
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 $10k16 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $86k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| WATERFORD CROSSROADS CHURCH | $46,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ASHBROOK CENTER | $20,000 |
| HOBBY HORSE HILL EQUESTRIAN CENTER | $20,000 |
| LIFEWISE ACADEMY | $8,000 |
| DAV | $5,500 |
| PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| ST JOSEPH INDIAN SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| THE JAMES CANCER HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION CHARITIES | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| ST BONAVENTURE INDIAN SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| ALHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +5% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 4 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2024 · $112k · revenue +6%
- HHHOBBY HORSE HILL EQUESTRIAN CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +5%
- ISINTERCHURCH SOCIAL SERVICES OF KNOX2× · 2017–2020 · $108k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- CFCOMM FOUND OF MT VERNON &KNOX COone grant, 2018 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $30k
- OJOSUCCC - JAMES AND STEPS FOR SARCOMone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
AAKP is dedicated to improving the lives and long-term outcome of kidney patients. Cont on Sch O.
The mission of als united ohio is to provide comprehensive support and advocacy for people with als and their families, while advancing research for new treatments and an end to als.
To improve the health of those we serve.
The hospice mission is to honor life through exceptional service and compassionate care. the organization is primarily engaged in providing care and support that enables the terminally ill to spend their final days in a comfortable and…
The mission of hospice is to provide medical care, nursing care, pain relief, and emotional and spiritual support services to terminally ill patients and their families.
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
To provide quality health and human services in response to identified needs in our service area and to provide for the basic health and human service needs of all persons, regardless of ability to pay.
Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.
The arthritis foundation is boldly pursuing a cure for america's #1 cause of disability, while championing the fight against arthritis with life-changing resources, science, advocacy, and community connections.
Breakthrough t1d is the leading global t1d organization working to accelerate life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent, and treat t1d and its complications.
Our hospice of south central indiana, inc. (ohsci) is an independent, not-for-profit organization providing services to the terminally ill in a 22-county service area. since its inception 44 years ago, hospice has expanded to meet the…
We will cure ms while empowering people affected by ms to live their best lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heartbeat of Morrow County Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 76 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 OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOBBY HORSE HILL EQUESTRIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds INTERCHURCH SOCIAL SERVICES OF KNOX ↗
- Who funds Knox County Foundation ↗
- Who funds MANSFIELD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ASHBROOK CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIFEWISE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KNOX COUNTY OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Heartbeat of Morrow County Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FINALLY HOME ↗
- Who funds The American Legion ↗
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: Knox County Foundation · The Ariel Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 The Burgett Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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