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Nathan B & Florence R Burt Foundation

Golden, CO · EIN 84-0972203. Reported 64 grants totalling $719,550 to 44 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$719,550granted, 2021-2024
44organizations funded
22%of grantees funded again the next year
$4,260,750assets, latest filing

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. Nathan B & Florence R Burt 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.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $7,500 and $15,000; the smallest was $2,500 and the largest $25,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
2 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
17 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
42 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Save Our Youth IncDenver, CO$55,000332024
Reach Out and Read ColoradoDenver, CO$50,000222024
Whiz Kids Tutoring IncDenver, CO$50,000332024
Denver Kids IncDenver, CO$40,000222022
Colorado UpliftDenver, CO$35,000222022
Boys Hope Girls Hope of ColoradoAurora, CO$30,000222024
Careers in Construction ColoradoColorado Springs, CO$27,500332024
Family Learning CenterBoulder, CO$25,000222023
Family Visitor ProgramGlenwood Springs, CO$25,000112024
Heart & Hand CenterDenver, CO$25,000222023
Sun Valley Youth CenterDenver, CO$25,000222024
Yess InstituteDenver, CO$25,000332024
Big Brothers Big Sisters of ColoradoEnglewood, CO$20,000222022
Mile High 360Denver, CO$20,000222024
Peak EducationColorado Springs, CO$20,000222024
True North Youth ProgramTelluride, CO$20,000222024
Breakthrough at Kent DenverEnglewood, CO$15,000222022
Community Coalition for Families & ChildrenWoodland Park, CO$15,000112023
New Legacy Charter SchoolAurora, CO$15,000112021
The PlaceColorado Springs, CO$15,000112022
Boys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo CountyPueblo, CO$10,000112021
Florence Crittenton ServicesDenver, CO$10,000112022
Impact on EducationLouisville, CO$10,000112021
Jeffco Human Services FoundationGolden, CO$10,000112023
PlatteforumDenver, CO$10,000112023
Reading PartnersOakland, CA$10,000112023
Rocky Mountain Public MediaDenver, CO$10,000112021
St Vincent De Paul ChurchDenver, CO$10,000112023
A Child's SongThornton, CO$7,500112024
Assistance League of Colorado SpringsColorado Springs, CO$7,500112023
Mountain Resource CenterConifer, CO$7,500112024
Thompson Valley PreschoolLoveland, CO$7,500112022
Hope House ColoradoArvada, CO$7,000112021
You Be You Early LearningDenver, CO$5,050112022
Boulder Community Housing CorpBoulder, CO$5,000112024
Boulder Day Nursery AssociationBoulder, CO$5,000112021
Colorado Family Life Center IncAurora, CO$5,000112021
Colorado Springs ConservatoryColorado Springs, CO$5,000112024
Early Connections Learning CentersColorado Springs, CO$5,000112022
Girls Incorporated of Metro DenverDenver, CO$5,000112021
Goodwill of Colorado Foundation Fka DiscoDenver, CO$5,000112021
Jefferson County Library Foundation IncWheat Ridge, CO$5,000112021
Arrupe Jesuit High SchoolDenver, CO$2,500112021
The Conflict CenterDenver, CO$2,500112023

16 of 44 (36%) 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 22%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. 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 kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 49 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
14 grants
Human Services
9 grants
Youth Development
7 grants
Recreation & Sports
5 grants
Crime & Legal
4 grants
Employment
3 grants
Arts & Culture
3 grants
Health Care
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202123$224,500$10,000
202212$140,050$10,000
202314$155,000$10,000
202415$200,000$10,000

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. 99% of this one's giving went to organizations in Colorado. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Colorado
$710K
California
$10K

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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.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Colorado.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 Nathan B & Florence R Burt 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 88, Golden, CO, 80402. 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.

EIN 84-0972203 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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