Missouri · Nonprofit
JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL
JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL (Missouri) receives grants from 128 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,408,797 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($18,249,325). 95 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $50M
- Funders on record
- 128
- Grants received
- $53M
- Net assets
- $211M
What John Burroughs School does
Mission
John Burroughs School seeks to instill the joy of living through active learning, integrity and service to others. Our mission is to foster in our students academic, physical and creative fulfillment, together with strength of character.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
John Burroughs School, founded in 1923, is a not-for-profit educational institute committed to a liberal arts education with a balance of emphasis among academics, arts, athletics and activities. John Burroughs School enrolls 665 students from throughout the metropolitan st. Louis area in grades 7 through 12.
$30,063,135 spentof which $3,327,695 as grants$24,106,184 earned by the program98% of program spendingBurr oak & bomber sports summer day camp for grade-school aged children.
$501,931 spent$1,068,989 earned by the program2% of program spendingAuxiliary services including: 1) operations of on-campus bookstore including general student supplies, John Burroughs School merchandise, and other items for the convenience of the students. 2) recreation center management and health and fitness club for members. 3) entrance exam revenue for 106 students who took the fifth grade exploratory exam.
$110,895 spent$182,900 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $30,675,961.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $167M to $216M (+30%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
22% of JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 38 funders to 67 funders, grant income fell $2.2M → $2.2M.
26 of 128 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.6M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Fiftieth Anniversary Scholarship Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL raised.
From the IRS filings of JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 128 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 29% · 2019 26% · 2020 21% · 2021 48% · 2022 36% · 2023 25% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
57% of JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
54% of JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $25M that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Fiftieth Anniversary Scholarship Fund · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Unitrust · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL?
- JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL (Missouri) receives grants from 128 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,408,797 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($18,249,325). 95 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 128 organizations giving $53,408,797 in grants to JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL, 95 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $18,249,325 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 128 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing