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The Burrows Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Burrows Foundation Inc

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$500
Granted FY2019
1
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$500
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Education$15kPhilanthropy$2kArts & Culture$1kReligion$750Health$550Recreation & Sports$500Civil Rights$500Youth Development$500Other$0
02FY2019 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEIGHBORHOOD STUDIOS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY - CAMP SCHOLARSHIP$500
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 (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%POLO PONY RESCUE: $200 → 11%MACCABI WORLD UNION: $500 → 22%NEW ROADS SCHOOL: $12k → 14%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $250 → 17%CITY ISLAND NAUTICAL MUSEUM: $100 → 28%LIVEKIND INC: $500 → 7%NEIGHBORHOOD STUDIOS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY - CAMP SCHOLARSHIP: $500 → 9%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $100 → 14%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $1k → 8%PASADENA PLAYHOUSE: $250 → 14%PARKINSON FOUNDATION: $50 → 17%RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL: $500 → 28%WMNR: $250 → 9%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $1k → 8%CHILD MIND INSTITUTE: $500 → 17%RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL: $450 → 28%WMNR: $50 → 9%THE DAVIS HILL FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 17%QUICK CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $150 → 9%MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $360 → 17%THE ACTORS FUND: $300 → 17%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.

15%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3k · 3 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2019, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
15

Total granted

$3k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+80%

Still filing today

33%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Arts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyMembership BenefitHuman ServicesOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k
  • RC
    RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $950 · revenue +37%
  • W
    WMNR
    2× · 2017–2018 · $300

Funded once

  • NR
    NEW ROADS SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +29%
  • TD
    THE DAVIS HILL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -99%
  • KO
    KULEN OUTREACH
    one grant, 2017 · $750
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
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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4
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
5
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
6
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
7
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
8
Berggruen Institute
Education
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
10
Academy Museum Foundation

The academy museum of motion pictures advances the understanding, celebration, and preservation of cinema through inclusive and accessible exhibitions, screenings, programs, initiatives, and collections. welcoming visitors from los angeles…

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America; the most unlike its peers is The Davis Hill Foundation 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, 2017–2025.

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. 12 of the 20 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW ROADS SCHOOL: $12,000 · EducationNEW ROADS SCHOOLRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $950 · EducationRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INCUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $2,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAKULEN OUTREACH: $750 · OtherKULEN OUTREACHNEIGHBORHOOD STUDIOS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY - CAMP SCHOLARSHIP: $500 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD STUDIOS OF …MACCABI WORLD UNION: $500 · OtherMACCABI WORLD UNIONWMNR: $300 · OtherWMNRPOLO PONY RESCUE: $200 · Other+4 more: $400 · Other+4 moreTHE DAVIS HILL FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · PhilanthropyMuseum of Modern Art: $360 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $250 · Arts & CultureTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC: $250 · Arts & CultureCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $500 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $50 · HealthLIVEKIND INC: $500 · Civil RightsTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $300 · Membership Benefit
Education$12,950Other$4,650Philanthropy$1,500Arts & Culture$860Health$550Civil Rights$500Membership Benefit$300

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 budgetNEW ROADS SCHOOL: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DAVIS HILL FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION: $50 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 Burrows Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Burrows 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%10%20%30%40%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 · 0–40%
    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.

    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 20 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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