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The Burt's Bees Greater Good Foundation AKA THE BURT'S BEES FOUNDATION

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$502k
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Environment$1.0MInternational$527kEducation$284kFood & Nutrition$244kCommunity Improvement$226kArts & Culture$211kRecreation & Sports$121kHealth$107kHuman Services$82kOther$601k
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $429k
$13,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$175k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERRICK MOORE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$30,000
URBAN COMMUNITY AGRI-NOMICS$30,000
NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$25,000
ELLERBEE CREEK$25,000
EL FUTURO$25,000
NORTH CAROLINA WILDLIFE FEDERATION$25,000
DURHAM PARKS FOUNDATION$22,000
RISE AGAINST HUNGER$20,000
TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC$20,000
SANKOFA SAVES$20,000
URBAN SUSTAINABILITY SOLUTIONS INC$20,000
FRIENDS OF THE DPS HUB FARM LTD$19,500
EXTRA TERRESTRIAL PROJECTS INC$15,000
EO WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION$15,000
NORTH CAROLINA BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATION INC$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SAVING GRACE INC: $2k → 8%ITIAH ANGELS FOR LEARNING INC: $600 → 11%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $14k → 8%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $8k → 8%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $8k → 8%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $8k → 8%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $8k → 8%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $8k → 8%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $3k → 8%STEPUP NORTH CAROLINA: $8k → 8%THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE TRIANG: $2k → 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC: $1k → 8%BLACK FARMERS MARKET: $8k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.1M · 40 repeat orgs$330k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
63

Total granted

$3.1M
$293k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+59%

Still filing today

80%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • RURAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INTERNATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $506k · revenue +54%
  • ET
    EXTRA TERRESTRIAL PROJECTS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $144k · revenue +6% · 94% of their budget
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $125k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • CF
    CONETOE FAMILY LIFE CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +552%
  • NC
    North Carolina Wildlife Federation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue +74%
  • DW
    Don't Waste Durham Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -39%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Conserving Carolina

To protect, restore, and inspire appreciation of the natural world.

Environment
2
Conservation Trust for North Carolina

Ctnc conserves land in ways that inspire and enable people to build resilient, just communities. we carry out our mission in collaboration with other conservation organizations and the communities we serve. our goal is to lessen the…

Environment
3
Trees for the Triangle

We plant native trees in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina.

Environment
4
Nc Farm Bureau Legal Foundation Inc
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5
Nc Warn Inc

To tackle the accelerating crisis of climate change by working to transition nc to clean, efficient energy & by watch-dogging utility practices. we pursue this work through grassroots activism, technical analysis, legal challenges and…

Environment
6
North Carolina Biotechnology Center

The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…

Science & Tech
7
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition
8
North Carolina League of Conservation Voters Foundation

NCLCVF engages people to protect our environment and promote the well-being of our communities. We work to turn environmental values into NC priorities by engaging people in the democratic process, organizing in communities first and worst…

Environment
9
Nashville Food Project Inc

The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.

Food & Nutrition
10
Working Landscapes

To create more healthy and sustainable lives and livelihoods for people in the warren county, nc region through stewardship of natural and cultural assets.

Community Improvement
11
North Carolina Cattlemen's Association Inc

To promote, educate, market and defend the beef industry.

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Research Triangle Regional Partnership

The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Conservation Network and the most unlike its peers is Black Farmers Market. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyNew Mexico Community Organi…Community Support ServicesProfessional Associations &…Performing Arts Organizatio…Basic Needs & Community Sup…Specialized Support Organiz…University Research & Educa…Animal Rescue and Shelter S…Professional Membership Ass…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 22 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%4%<5yr16%12%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr14%28%20–35yr12%23%35–55yr12%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%3%<5yr16%2%5–10yr20%43%10–20yr14%14%20–35yr12%35%35–55yr12%3%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/97
the rest of the field
15%
7,955/53,083

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.

04the grantee network

84 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. 84 of the 112 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/84
Grantees still filing
61/84
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EO WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $555,000 · EnvironmentEO WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATIONEllerbee Creek Watershed Association — $106,900 · EnvironmentEllerbee Creek Watershed Associat…TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $104,000 · EnvironmentTRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INCNORTH CAROLINA BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATION — $76,000 · EnvironmentNORTH CAROLINA BOTANICAL GARDEN F…ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENO RIVER VALLEY INC — $46,600 · Environment+9 more — $125,500 · Environment+9 moreRURAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INTERNATION — $506,094 · InternationalRURAL ADVANCEMENT…RISE AGAINST HUNGER INC — $20,000 · International+1 more — $500 · InternationalTREESDURHAM — $138,000 · OtherTREESDURHAMNORTH CAROLINA WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $71,500 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA WILDLIFE FEDERA…DURHAM COUNTY — $60,500 · OtherDURHAM COUNTYDurham Parks Foundation — $121,000 · OtherDurham Parks FoundationEL FUTURO INC — $57,500 · OtherEL FUTURO INCALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC — $44,500 · OtherINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE — $53,500 · OtherINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLEDURHAM COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTEES INC — $55,000 · OtherDURHAM COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTEES…+63 more — $309,264 · Other+63 moreFRIENDS OF THE DPS HUB FARM LTD — $126,049 · EducationFRIENDS O…NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 · EducationNORTH CAR…ORANGE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN — $16,345 · EducationORANGE CO…DURHAM TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $9,882 · Education+3 more — $6,550 · EducationURBAN COMMUNITY AGRI-NOMICS UCAN — $80,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC — $62,000 · Food & NutritionFARMER FOODSHARE INC — $52,500 · Food & NutritionA PLACE AT THE TABLE — $37,500 · Food & NutritionBLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $1,500 · Food & NutritionKEEP DURHAM BEAUTIFUL INC — $86,100 · Community ImprovementMERRICK MOORE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP MERRICK MOORE COMMUNITY CLUB — $49,500 · Community ImprovementCommunities In Partnership — $44,000 · Community ImprovementReinvestment Partners — $22,500 · Community ImprovementDon't Waste Durham Inc — $15,000 · Community ImprovementBLACK FAMILY LAND TRUST INC — $9,100 · Community ImprovementEXTRA TERRESTRIAL PROJECTS INC — $143,500 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF LIFE & SCIENCE INC — $56,500 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION — $8,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $3,100 · Arts & Culture
Environment$1,014,000International$526,594Other$910,764Education$283,826Food & Nutrition$243,500Community Improvement$226,200Arts & Culture$211,100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEO WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $555,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetRURAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INTERNATION — $506,094 over 8y, 11% of budgetEXTRA TERRESTRIAL PROJECTS INC — $143,500 over 6y, 94% of budgetTREESDURHAM — $138,000 over 5y, 49% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DPS HUB FARM LTD — $126,049 over 6y, 44% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDurham Parks Foundation — $121,000 over 6y, 20% of budgetEllerbee Creek Watershed Association — $106,900 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetTRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $104,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetKEEP DURHAM BEAUTIFUL INC — $86,100 over 5y, 15% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY AGRI-NOMICS UCAN — $80,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATION — $76,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC — $62,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEL FUTURO INC — $57,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF LIFE & SCIENCE INC — $56,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDURHAM COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTEES INC — $55,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE — $53,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFARMER FOODSHARE INC — $52,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMERRICK MOORE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP MERRICK MOORE COMMUNITY CLUB — $49,500 over 2y, 36% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENO RIVER VALLEY INC — $46,600 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC — $44,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCommunities In Partnership — $44,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetA PLACE AT THE TABLE — $37,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $30,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN SUSTAINABILITY SOLUTIONS INC — $30,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN EFFORTS DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE SPACES INC — $29,500 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DURHAM INC — $26,800 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetReinvestment Partners — $22,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRISE AGAINST HUNGER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CONSERVATION PARTNERS INC — $18,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNorth Carolina Wildlife Federation Inc — $17,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDon't Waste Durham Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetMARBLES KIDS MUSEUM — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY — $11,695 over 1y, 11% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATION NETWORK — $10,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVeterans Healing Farm — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCROATAN INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetDURHAM TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $9,882 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetANATHOTH COMMUNITY GARDEN INC — $9,548 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetNC Field Inc — $9,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetBENEVOLENCE FARM — $9,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetHealing with CAARE Inc — $8,205 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNourish International — $7,500 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetThe Abundance Foundation Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBlack Farmers Market — $7,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSTEPUP NORTH CAROLINA — $7,500 over 1y, 5.9% of budget
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.

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.

Triangle Community Fo…Duke UniversityDuke University Healt…United Way of the Gre…Z Smith Reynolds Foun…North Carolina Commun…The Cannon Foundation…Foundation for the Ca…Devonwood Foundation …Duke Energy FoundationHillsdale FundAj Fletcher Foundation
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC77.4× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke University · Duke University Health System Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Devonwood Foundation 009606-007 · Duke Energy Foundation · Hillsdale Fund · Aj Fletcher Foundation

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 Burt's Bees Greater Good Foundation AKA THE BURT'S BEES 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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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    How do I get to The Burt's Bees Greater Good Foundation AKA THE BURT'S BEES FOUNDATION?

    Find your warmest path to The Burt's Bees Greater Good Foundation AKA THE BURT'S BEES 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 112 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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