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THE BURTON FOUNDATION

THE BURTON FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,400 to it, the largest being The Cozen O'Connor Foundation Inc ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$122k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$48k
Net assets
$1.8M
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What The Burton Foundation does

Program

  1. N/a

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($71k) Expenses 100 ($208k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 124 ($88k) Expenses 94 ($196k) Net assets 92 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 1542 ($1.1M) Expenses 93 ($194k) Net assets 161 ($2.1M)2020 Revenue 151 ($108k) Expenses 80 ($167k) Net assets 157 ($2.0M)2021 Revenue 462 ($329k) Expenses 84 ($175k) Net assets 169 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 47 ($33k) Expenses 107 ($223k) Net assets 154 ($2.0M)2023 Revenue 53 ($38k) Expenses 63 ($131k) Net assets 147 ($1.9M)2024 Revenue 113 ($80k) Expenses 90 ($187k) Net assets 139 ($1.8M)2025 Revenue 171 ($122k) Expenses 47 ($99k) Net assets 141 ($1.8M)
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Revenue (171)Expenses (47)Net assets (141)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $1.2M to $2.1M (+75%).

$1.3M
$1.2M
$2.1M
$2.0M
$2.2M
$2.0M
$1.9M
$1.8M
$1.8M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $4k.

From the IRS filings of THE BURTON FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

THE BURTON FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

83% 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 THE BURTON FOUNDATION.

83%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

THE BURTON FOUNDATION draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states in all.

NY
PA
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE BURTON FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve3.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like THE BURTON FOUNDATION

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In New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE BURTON FOUNDATION?
THE BURTON FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,400 to it, the largest being The Cozen O'Connor Foundation Inc ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE BURTON FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $48,400 in grants to THE BURTON FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE BURTON FOUNDATION?
The Cozen O'Connor Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE BURTON FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 3 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing