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The Burleson Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Burleson Family Foundation Inc

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.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$116kRecreation & Sports$50kHealth$33kAnimals$7kEnvironment$6kReligion$5kYouth Development$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$245k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHSIDE YOUTH ORGANIZATION$20,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $25k → 16%THE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%GEORGIA ACQUARIUM: $3k → 13%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ATLANTA: $2k → 14%THE ASCO FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%GEORGIA AQUARIUM: $2k → 13%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%GEORGIA AQUARIUM: $2k → 13%SKYLAND TRAIL: $3k → 14%GEORGIA ACQUARIUM: $1k → 13%SKYLAND TRAIL: $500 → 14%NORTHSIDE YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $20k → 13%NORTHSIDE YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $20k → 13%NORTHSIDE YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $10k → 13%PEACHTREE PRESBYTERIAN: $10k → 13%PEACHTREE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5k → 13%ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN: $3k → 13%ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN: $3k → 13%FAME: $2k → 13%ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDENS: $500 → 13%THE LOVETT SCHOOL: $50k → 13%THE LOVETT SCHOOL: $30k → 13%THE LOVETT SCHOOL: $25k → 13%LOVETT LION BACKERS: $5k → 13%LOVETTE LIONBACKERS: $5k → 13%THE LOVETT SCHOOL: $5k → 13%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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$176k · 5 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +56% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$176k
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+56%

Still filing today

100%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentRecreation & SportsAnimalsHealthOther
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

  • TL
    THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $110k · revenue +60%
  • NY
    NORTHSIDE YOUTH ORGANIZATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $50k · revenue +20%
  • GA
    GEORGIA AQUARIUM INC & SUBSIDIARY
    4× · 2018–2024 · $7k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • MA
    MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • EU
    Emory University
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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
Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education
2
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc

Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…

Education
3
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
4
A T Still University of Health Sciences

A.T. Still University of Health Sciences serves as a learning-centered university dedicated to preparing highly competent professionals through innovative academic programs. The University is committed to continuing its osteopathic…

Education
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
The Howard University

The howard university was established by an act of congress in 1867. the university is an institution that educates students, develops professionals, conducts research, and serves patients through 12 schools of higher education and an…

Education
7
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research

The graduate school of the stowers institute for medical research ("gssimr") exempt purpose is to provide graduate education that will prepare scholars for scientific research in the biological sciences.

Education
10
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
11
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
12
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Citadel Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Northside Youth Organization 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

8 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. 8 of the 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC: $110,000 · EducationTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INCEmory University: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $25,000 · OtherMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $9,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPEACHTREE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherPEACHTREE PRESBYTERIAN CHUR…Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMBULATORY SURGERY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherAMBULATORY SURGERY FOUNDATI…Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+2 more: $3,000 · OtherNORTHSIDE YOUTH ORGANIZATION INC: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsNORTHSIDE YOUTH ORGANIZ…GEORGIA AQUARIUM INC & SUBSIDIARY: $7,252 · AnimalsTHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $5,500 · EnvironmentGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Health
Education$115,500Other$57,500Recreation & Sports$50,000Animals$7,252Environment$5,500Health$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INC: $110,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHSIDE YOUTH ORGANIZATION INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGIA AQUARIUM INC & SUBSIDIARY: $7,252 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMBULATORY SURGERY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $500 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Burleson Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Burleson Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 Burleson Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Burleson Family Foundation Inc 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 15 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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