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The Sandy and Ed Burr Family Foundation at a glance

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The Sandy and Ed Burr Family 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.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$545kAnimals$204kHuman Services$44kArts & Culture$26kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kMembership Benefit$20kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$666k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHALLENGE CENTER$100,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SOF SUPPORT INC: $25k → 14%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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$705k · 8 repeat orgs$322k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$705k
$322k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+31%

Still filing today

88%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
AnimalsHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesMembership BenefitOther
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

  • GH
    Grossmont Hospital Foundation
    3× · 2017–2023 · $285k · revenue +124%
  • TC
    THERAPY CENTER INC DBA CHALLENGE CENTER
    2× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +75%
  • ZS
    ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO
    5× · 2017–2022 · $79k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • SH
    Sharp Healthcare Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +31%
  • SS
    SOF SUPPORT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -8%
  • CH
    CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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
Sharp Healthcare

To promote health care through supporting and/or operating, directly or through wholly-owned subsidiaries and other appropriate management arrangements, hospitals and other medically-related facilities and activities in the state of…

Health
2
Sonoma County Deputy Sheriffs K-9 Association

To provide health care for retired k-9 deputies. educate the public in the roll k-9 deputies play in law enforcment

Crime & Legal
3
San Diego Police Officers Association Foundation

The san diego police officers association foundation receives charitable contributons from the public and from members of the san diego police officers association, and to engage in charitable fundraising activities.

Philanthropy
4
Sharp Memorial Hospital

Sharp memorial hospital provides comprehensive medical services to the san diego community.

Health
5
Grossmont Hospital Corporation

Grossmont hospital provides inpatient and outpatient medical services to the community.

Health
6
San Diego Police Officers Association Inc

The san diego police officers association was incorporated in 1953 to assist san diego police officers in issues related to wages, hours and working conditions.

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7
Disabled American Veterans Department of California

Fulfilling our promises to the men and women who served.

—
8
Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center

Sharp chula vista medical center provides inpatient and outpatient medical services to the community.

Health
9
San Diego Municipal Employees Assn

The san diego municipal employees association (sdmea) is dedicated to being a strong and effective advocate for san diego city employees. sdmea is united to improve employees' standard of living and promote their fair treatment by…

—
10
Sharp Coronado Hospital & Healthcare Center

To operate and maintain a general acute care hospital and related facilities for the acute care of persons suffering from illnesses or disabilities, and for the continuing care of persons needing rehabilitation and the custodial care of…

—
11
High Desert Police K9 Association
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12
Kfhpw Holdings

Supporting kaiser permanente organizations which provide high-quality, affordable health care services to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sharp Healthcare Foundation; the most unlike its peers is California Highway Patrol. 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

11 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. 11 of the 13 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Grossmont Hospital Foundation: $285,000 · HealthGrossmont Hospital FoundationSharp Healthcare Foundation: $250,000 · HealthSharp Healthcare FoundationZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $79,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF …SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $75,000 · AnimalsSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIE…HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER: $50,000 · AnimalsHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL …THERAPY CENTER INC DBA CHALLENGE CENTER: $110,000 · OtherTHERAPY CENTER INC …S OF SUPPORT (SEALS): $60,000 · OtherS OF SUPPORT (SEALS…+1 more: $3,300 · OtherEAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY: $26,000 · Arts & CultureSOF SUPPORT INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Membership BenefitBLUE ANGELS FOUNDATION INC: $18,800 · Philanthropy
Health$535,000Animals$204,000Other$173,300Arts & Culture$26,000Human Services$25,000Youth Development$25,000Membership Benefit$20,000Philanthropy$18,800

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 budgetGrossmont Hospital Foundation: $285,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSharp Healthcare Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHERAPY CENTER INC DBA CHALLENGE CENTER: $110,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $79,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY: $26,000 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE ANGELS FOUNDATION INC: $18,800 over 1y, 1.9% 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Sandy and Ed Burr Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sandy and Ed Burr Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2022
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
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    How do I get to The Sandy and Ed Burr Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Sandy and Ed Burr Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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