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The Burton Foundation

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.

$148k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
29
Itemized grants FY2024
24
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$132k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$61,977
Organizations funded a year
18 to 26
FY2017 to FY2023
Total assets, FY2024
$1.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations The Burton Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving29$132k45%
FY202324$87k25%
FY202226$148k62%
FY202018$86k56%
FY201725$138kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$375kEducation$65kRecreation & Sports$32kAnimals$20kEnvironment$15kHealth$14kPublic Benefit$11kInternational$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2024.

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
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$5,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$5,000
WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY$5,000
ATLANTIC WHITE SHARK CONSERVANCY$5,000
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY$2,500
TULANE UNIVERSITY$2,500
NEW YORK CITY BALLET$1,500
NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO$1,200
FISHERMAN'S ALLIANCE$1,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$1,000
THE MATHER HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION$1,000

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About The Burton Foundation

How much does The Burton Foundation give?
The Burton Foundation reported 29 itemized grants totaling $131,607, out of $148,107 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Burton Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (32%), Education (5%), Recreation & Sports (3%).
Does The Burton Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Burton Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is The Burton Foundation based?
The Burton Foundation is based in NY.

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 70 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $71k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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