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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
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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.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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
FY2025still arriving9$50k11%
FY20249$42k44%
FY202310$35k40%
FY20229$27k22%
FY202113$35k31%
FY20208$13k50%
FY20194$28k25%
FY20185$10k60%
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$118kReligion$52kEducation$38kHuman Services$21kCivil Rights$11kYouth Development$6kInternational$6kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
TN
OK
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees
All grantees of The Wr Burgess Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Camp Southern Ground Inc$114,04060%
A Haven$20,11861%
The Loomis Institute D/B/A the Loomis Chaffee School$18,50060%
Laymen's Retreat League$11,40560%
Trustees of Tufts College$8,00030%
Malvern Preparatory School$6,00010%
Generation Life$5,30321%
Franklin & Marshall College$4,00020%
Vertical Raise Np Inc$1,9142n/a
Longwood Gardens Inc$1,42520%
National Football League Alumni Inc$1,00010%
Kids at Play of Central Florida Inc$1,0001n/a
Kelly Center for Hunger Relief$1,00010%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$1,00010%
Stand for the Silent Inc$1,00010%
Panthers Diamond Club Incorporated$80011%

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.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCamp Southern Ground Inc: $114,040 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetA Haven: $20,118 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetThe Loomis Institute D/B/A the Loomis Chaffee School: $18,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLaymen's Retreat League: $11,405 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMalvern Preparatory School: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeneration Life: $5,303 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFranklin & Marshall College: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLongwood Gardens Inc: $1,425 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Football League Alumni Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKelly Center for Hunger Relief: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStand for the Silent Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPanthers Diamond Club Incorporated: $800 over 1y, 1.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Chubb Charitable FoundationPA16.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

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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.

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 29 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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