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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 FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
—
States reached
$62k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% 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
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 29 grants below total $131,607, the rows itemized in this filing. The $148,107 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
$1,000
Median grant
—
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$448k · 27 repeat orgs$142k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
30

Total granted

$448k
$114k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’22’23’24
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    5× · 2017–2024 · $182k
  • NY
    NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    5× · 2017–2024 · $48k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS MUSEE D'ORSAY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $23k

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND
    one grant, 2017 · $23k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MUSIC
    one grant, 2017 · $19k
  • CC
    CAPE COD HEALTHCARED
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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.

03Its field
03the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 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.

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)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $181,977 · OtherMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTNEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $48,480 · OtherNEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETYAMERICAN FRIENDS MUSEE D'ORSAY: $23,000 · OtherCHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER: $22,500 · OtherNEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND: $22,500 · Other+65 more: $291,845 · Other+65 more
Other$590,302

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

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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