· Private foundation
The Burton 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 29 grants below total $131,607 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $148,107 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $61,977 |
| NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,180 |
| MORGAN LIBRARY PHOTOGRAPHY | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF M D'MS | $6,000 |
| WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ATLANTIC WHITE SHARK CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $5,000 |
| BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| NEW YORK CITY BALLET | $1,500 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO | $1,200 |
| MQ FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FISHERMAN'S ALLIANCE | $1,000 |
| GARDEN OF CEDAR | $1,000 |
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.
27 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
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
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART5× · 2017–2024 · $182k
- NYNEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY5× · 2017–2024 · $48k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS MUSEE D'ORSAY2× · 2022–2023 · $23k
Funded once
- NYNEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUNDone grant, 2017 · $23k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MUSICone grant, 2017 · $19k
- AAFMOone grant, 2023 · $7k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
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 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 70 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.