How much does The Burning Foundation give?

The Burning Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $1,128,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 57 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Burning Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (78%), Health (10%), Animals (5%).

Who are The Burning Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Futurewise ($219k), Puget Soundkeeper Alliance ($208k), Conservation Nw ($185k).

Does The Burning Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Burning Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Burning Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, The Oregon Community Foundation, The Lazar Foundation.

Where is The Burning Foundation based?

The Burning Foundation is based in WA.

Foundation Dossiers

Washington · Private foundation

The Burning Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 56
Grants FY2025: 52
Organizations funded FY2024: 8%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $30,000
Organizations funded a year: 46 to 57; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $13M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations The Burning Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentAnimalsHealthArts & CultureScience & TechCommunity ImprovementOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	54	$1.1M	6%
FY2024	52	$1.0M	8%
FY2023	49	$855k	14%
FY2022	52	$867k	12%
FY2021	57	$969k	18%
FY2020	50	$746k	12%
FY2019	48	$691k	21%
FY2018	46	$593k	33%

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What it funded, over time

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

Environment$5.9MHealth$728kAnimals$398kHuman Services$221kPublic Safety & Disaster$97kYouth Development$75kArts & Culture$33kHousing & Shelter$27kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Futurewise	$219,000	8	4%
Puget Soundkeeper Alliance	$208,000	9	2%
Conservation Nw	$185,000	8	1%
Cascade Forest Conservancy	$183,000	9	4%
Room One	$183,000	9	3%
Re Sources	$182,000	9	1%
Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center	$182,000	9	3%
Greater Hells Canyon Council	$180,000	9	8%
Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc	$175,000	9	1%
Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho	$175,000	9	0%

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All grantees of The Burning Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Futurewise	$219,000	8	4%
Puget Soundkeeper Alliance	$208,000	9	2%
Conservation Nw	$185,000	8	1%
Cascade Forest Conservancy	$183,000	9	4%
Room One	$183,000	9	3%
Re Sources	$182,000	9	1%
Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center	$182,000	9	3%
Greater Hells Canyon Council	$180,000	9	8%
Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc	$175,000	9	1%
Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho	$175,000	9	0%
Skagit Land Trust	$175,000	9	1%
Oregon Natural Desert Association	$173,000	9	1%
North Cascades Institute	$169,000	9	1%
WaterWatch of Oregon	$158,000	7	3%
Wild Salmon Center	$158,000	9	1%
Methow Valley Citizens Council	$154,000	9	15%
Friends of the San Juans	$146,000	7	2%
Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc	$144,000	9	0%
Washington Association of Land Trusts	$142,000	9	7%
Washington Conservation Action Education Fund	$142,000	8	1%
Planned Parenthood Great Northwest Hawaii Alaska Indiana and Kentucky	$139,000	9	0%
Neighborcare Health	$135,000	8	0%
Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc	$133,000	8	0%
Sound Action	$129,000	9	13%
Advocates for the West Inc	$128,000	8	1%
Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild	$123,000	9	1%
North Olympic Land Trust	$118,000	8	2%
Central Oregon Landwatch	$114,000	7	1%
Washington Wild	$99,000	7	3%
Center for Responsible Forestry	$98,000	4	23%
Firefighters United for Safety Ethics and Ecology	$97,000	7	12%
Bark	$87,000	6	4%
Spokane Riverkeeper	$87,000	5	7%
Swedish Medical Center Foundation	$87,000	7	0%
Western Environmental Law Center	$86,000	4	2%
Twin Harbors Waterkeeper	$85,000	4	10%
Cascadia Wildlands	$85,000	6	2%
The Lands Council	$83,000	6	2%
Capitol Land Trust	$82,000	5	1%
Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project	$81,000	6	10%
The Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts	$81,000	7	3%
Oregon Desert Land Trust	$80,000	4	1%
Silvix Resources	$80,000	3	8%
Wild Fish Conservancy	$74,000	5	1%
Willamette Riverkeeper	$67,000	5	2%
Native Fish Society Inc	$60,000	5	1%
Columbia Riverkeeper	$57,000	4	1%
Jefferson Land Trust	$56,000	4	0%
Legacy Forest Defense Coalition	$55,000	2	8%
Wildearth Guardians	$54,000	4	0%
Defenders of Wildlife	$54,000	4	0%
Crag Law Center	$51,000	4	1%
National Audubon Society Inc	$45,000	3	0%
Whatcom Land Trust	$44,000	3	1%
Coast Range Association Inc	$42,000	3	n/a
Columbia Insight	$40,000	3	8%
Deschutes River Alliance	$40,000	3	4%
Umpqua Watersheds	$39,000	3	11%
Wild Rivers Land Trust	$39,000	3	5%
YWCA Clark County	$38,000	4	0%
Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Foundation	$35,000	3	1%
Foundation for Youth Resiliency and Enga	$35,000	2	2%
Wallowa Resources Inc	$33,000	2	0%
Washington Coast Sustainable Salmon Foundation	$33,000	3	2%
Pacific Rivers	$32,000	2	5%
Center for Environmental Law & Policy	$30,000	2	8%
Cascades Carnivore Project	$30,000	2	6%
Cascadia Wild	$30,000	3	10%
Western Rivers Conservancy	$27,000	2	0%
Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest	$25,000	2	1%
Friends of the Owyhee	$25,000	2	3%
Ecosource Native Seed & Restoration	$25,000	2	2%
Center for Food Safety	$22,000	2	0%
The Wetlands Conservancy Inc	$22,000	2	2%
Friends of the Salish Sea	$15,000	1	10%
Earthjustice	$15,000	1	0%
Roots Young Adult Shelter	$15,000	1	1%
One Community Health	$15,000	1	0%
Sustainable Northwest	$15,000	1	1%
Mary Bridge Children's Foundation	$15,000	1	n/a
Teen Feed	$15,000	1	2%
Neighborhood Health Center	$15,000	1	n/a
American Rivers Inc	$12,000	1	0%
Center for Justice	$12,000	1	2%
League of Wilderness Defenders	$12,000	2	n/a
Inland Northwest Land Trust	$12,000	1	4%
1000 Friends of Oregon	$12,000	1	1%
Understory Initiative	$10,000	1	2%
Oregon Agricultural Trust	$10,000	1	1%
Long Live the Kings	$10,000	1	0%
Okanogan Land Trust	$10,000	1	1%
Thrive Hood River	$10,000	1	8%
Deer Creek Valley Natural Resources Conservation Association	$10,000	1	n/a
Hunters of Color	$10,000	1	4%
Washington Water Trust	$10,000	1	1%
Virginia Garcia Memorial Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
Klamath Forest Alliance	$8,000	1	n/a
Cascade Volunteers	$5,000	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($247k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Burning Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 91.

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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.

PatagoniaorgCA58.3× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Lazar Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · Seattle Foundation · Jubitz Family Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation · The Northwest Fund for the Environment · Charlotte y Martin Foundation-Ima · The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation · The Roundhouse 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.

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About The Burning Foundation

How much does The Burning Foundation give?: The Burning Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $1,128,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 57 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Burning Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (78%), Health (10%), Animals (5%).
Who are The Burning Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Futurewise ($219k), Puget Soundkeeper Alliance ($208k), Conservation Nw ($185k).
Does The Burning Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Burning Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Burning Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, The Oregon Community Foundation, The Lazar Foundation.
Where is The Burning Foundation based?: The Burning Foundation is based in WA.