Texas · Private foundation
The Wr Burgess 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.
- $50k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,655
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $34,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $369k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations The Wr Burgess Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $50k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $42k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $35k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $27k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $35k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $13k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $28k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $10k | 60% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Southern Ground Inc | $114,040 | 6 | 0% |
| A Haven | $20,118 | 6 | 1% |
| The Loomis Institute D/B/A the Loomis Chaffee School | $18,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Laymen's Retreat League | $11,405 | 6 | 0% |
| Trustees of Tufts College | $8,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Malvern Preparatory School | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Generation Life | $5,303 | 2 | 1% |
| Franklin & Marshall College | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Vertical Raise Np Inc | $1,914 | 2 | n/a |
| Longwood Gardens Inc | $1,425 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Southern Ground Inc | $114,040 | 6 | 0% |
| A Haven | $20,118 | 6 | 1% |
| The Loomis Institute D/B/A the Loomis Chaffee School | $18,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Laymen's Retreat League | $11,405 | 6 | 0% |
| Trustees of Tufts College | $8,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Malvern Preparatory School | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Generation Life | $5,303 | 2 | 1% |
| Franklin & Marshall College | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Vertical Raise Np Inc | $1,914 | 2 | n/a |
| Longwood Gardens Inc | $1,425 | 2 | 0% |
| National Football League Alumni Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kids at Play of Central Florida Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kelly Center for Hunger Relief | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stand for the Silent Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Panthers Diamond Club Incorporated | $800 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($59k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Wr Burgess Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Chubb Charitable Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About The Wr Burgess Foundation
- How much does The Wr Burgess Foundation give?
- The Wr Burgess Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $50,170 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Wr Burgess Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (45%), Religion (20%), Education (14%).
- Who are The Wr Burgess Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Camp Southern Ground Inc ($114k), A Haven ($20k), The Loomis Institute D/B/A the Loomis Chaffee School ($19k).
- Does The Wr Burgess Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wr Burgess 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Wr Burgess Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chubb Charitable Foundation, Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
- Where is The Wr Burgess Foundation based?
- The Wr Burgess Foundation is based in TX.
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