· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $34k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND | $34,000 |
| A HAVEN | $6,069 |
| MALVERN RETREAT HOUSE | $2,805 |
| GENERATION LIFE | $2,341 |
| VERTICAL RAISE | $1,655 |
| RESURRECTION CATHOLIC CHURCH | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| LONGWOOD GARDENS | $800 |
| ST JOHN VIANNEY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AHA HAVEN6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +109%
- TLTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL6× · 2017–2022 · $19k · revenue +17%
Trustees of Tufts College3× · 2018–2021 · $8k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- STST THOMAS MORE CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $7k
- MPMALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +79%
- NFNATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE ALUMNI INCone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -35%
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.
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.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
We inspire students to lead ethical and productive lives through a college preparatory program that promotes the pursuit of academic and personal excellence.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…
Lowell school (the school) provides educational services to approximately 314 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. the school strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment, and offers a…
Linfield christian school provides a college preparatory education in a caring, relational, christ-centered environment that develops and inspires students to: know jesus christ as lord; love others as themselves; and grow in knowledge and…
To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 29 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds A HAVEN ↗
- Who funds THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LAYMEN'S RETREAT LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GENERATION LIFE ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Vertical Raise Np Inc ↗
- Who funds LONGWOOD GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE ALUMNI INC ↗
- Who funds Kelly Center for Hunger Relief ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds STAND FOR THE SILENT INC ↗
- Who funds PANTHERS DIAMOND CLUB INCORPORATED ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wr Burgess Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wr Burgess Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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