Burrows Foundation
Little Falls, NY · EIN 22-3059155. Reported 139 grants totalling $1,265,249 to 52 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Burrows Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $2,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $250 and $10,000; the smallest was $50 and the largest $114,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little Falls YMCA | Little Falls, NY | $307,076 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Chapin School | New York, NY | $183,876 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, NY | $144,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Friends of Bassett | Cooperstown, NY | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hospice & Palliative Care Inc | New Hartford, NY | $80,250 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mvhs Foundation | Utica, NY | $60,250 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Masonic Medical Research Institute | Utica, NY | $58,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Friends of Norris Cotton Cancer Center | Lebanon, NH | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Berkshire School | Sheffield, MA | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Creative Outpost | Little Falls, NY | $32,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Abraham House | Utica, NY | $26,200 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mohawk Valley Choral Society | Little Falls, NY | $21,250 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Little Falls Community Outreach Inc | Little Falls, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Little Falls Hospital | Little Falls, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mmgimbi LLC | New York, NY | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Little Falls Area Food Pantry | Little Falls, NY | $12,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mohawk Valley Center for Arts | Little Falls, NY | $12,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Little Falls Pop Warner & Cheer | Little Falls, NY | $11,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Toronto | Toronto, British Columbia | $10,300 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Community Chest | Little Falls, NY | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Little Falls Public Library | Little Falls, NY | $6,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Little Falls Wca | Little Falls, NY | $6,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| A Better Chance Clinton | Clinton, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Arc of Herkimer | Herkimer, NY | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Broadway Theatre League of Utica | Utica, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Harlem Educational Activities Fund | New York, NY | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Asia Society | New York, NY | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Northfield Mount Hermon School | Hermon, MA | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ocean Reef Medical Center Foundation | Key Largo, FL | $2,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Christmas for Children Program | Dolgeville, NY | $1,206 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Amazing Gracie Gift Foundation | Mohawk, NY | $1,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Millers Mills Community Baptist Church | West Winfield, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Women's Fund of Herkimer | Clinton, NY | $1,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Little Falls Rotary Club | Little Falls, NY | $890 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Little Falls Canal Days Celebration | Little Falls, NY | $800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Little Falls Historical Society | Little Falls, NY | $800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Violet Festival Committee | Dolgeville, NY | $750 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Herkimer County Soil & Conservation District | Herkimer, NY | $500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Herkimer County Historical Society | Herkimer, NY | $400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| L&l Embroidery Inc | Johnstown, NY | $361 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New York Botanical Garden | Bronx, NY | $325 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community at Sunset Wood | New Hartford, NY | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boca Raton Regional Hospital | Boca Raton, FL | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Christmas in Little Falls | Little Falls, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Little Falls Little League | Little Falls, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Little Falls Police Benevolent Association | Little Falls, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nys 4-H Foundation | Auburn, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tom Greene Gto Sports Promotions | Lake George, NY | $225 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Legion Post No 31 | Little Falls, NY | $200 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Friends of the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetary Inc | Poughkeepsie, NY | $200 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Main Street First Inc | Little Falls, NY | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Little Falls Jrsr High School Yearbook | Little Falls, NY | $140 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
37 of 52 (71%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 82%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
2024 MEMBERSHIP AND CONTRIBUTION - Hospice & Palliative Care Inc
IN MEMORY OF BILL BURROWS - Friends of Norris Cotton Cancer Center
2024 CONTRIBUTION - JUDY CSATARI - Little Falls Hospital
2022 DEVELOPMENT FUND DRIVE - Mmgimbi LLC
DONATION TO SKATING CLUB FOR OFF-ICE TRAINING EQUIPMENT - A Better Chance Clinton
WILLIAM MCCARTNEY MEMORIAL
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 62 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 32 | $258,713 | $550 |
| 2022 | 34 | $292,628 | $2,000 |
| 2023 | 35 | $279,783 | $2,000 |
| 2024 | 38 | $434,125 | $2,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 92% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Burrows Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 1042, Little Falls, NY, 13365. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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