Burrows Foundation
Little Falls, NY · EIN 22-3059155. Reported 181 grants totalling $2,055,658 to 62 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. 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 $10,500; the smallest was $50 and the largest $150,000. 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. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little Falls YMCA | Little Falls, NY | $337,692 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, NY | $256,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Chapin School | New York, NY | $248,876 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Lower East Side Tenement Museum | New York, NY | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Friends of Bassett | Cooperstown, NY | $130,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Hospice & Palliative Care Inc | New Hartford, NY | $100,250 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Masonic Medical Research Institute | Utica, NY | $93,200 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Mvhs Foundation | Utica, NY | $80,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Abraham House | Utica, NY | $72,431 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Friends of Norris Cotton Cancer Center | Lebanon, NH | $72,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Creative Outpost | Little Falls, NY | $64,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Berkshire School | Sheffield, MA | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Mohawk Valley Center for Arts | Little Falls, NY | $33,616 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Little Falls Wca | Little Falls, NY | $24,185 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Asia Society | New York, NY | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Mohawk Valley Choral Society | Little Falls, NY | $21,750 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Little Falls Community Outreach Inc | Little Falls, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Little Falls Hospital | Little Falls, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Little Falls Area Food Pantry | Little Falls, NY | $15,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Mmgimbi LLC | New York, NY | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Mmgimbo LLC | New York, NY | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Broadway Theatre League of Utica | Utica, NY | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| 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 | $10,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| US Figure Skating | Colorado Springs, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Little Falls Public Library | Little Falls, NY | $8,123 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Arc of Herkimer | Herkimer, NY | $7,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Harlem Educational Activities Fund | New York, NY | $7,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| A Better Chance Clinton | Clinton, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Columbia Univeristy | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Herkimer Next Inc | Ilion, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Northfield Mount Hermon School | Hermon, MA | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Ocean Reef Medical Center Foundation | Key Largo, FL | $2,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Little Falls Rotary Club | Little Falls, NY | $1,890 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Frick Collection | New York, NY | $1,658 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Amazing Gracie Gift Foundation | Mohawk, NY | $1,250 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Women's Fund of Herkimer | Clinton, NY | $1,250 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Christmas for Children Program | Dolgeville, NY | $1,206 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Little Falls Canal Days Celebration | Little Falls, NY | $1,050 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Little Falls Historical Society | Little Falls, NY | $1,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Millers Mills Community Baptist Church | West Winfield, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Herkimer County Soil & Conservation District | Herkimer, NY | $750 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Violet Festival Committee | Dolgeville, NY | $750 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Dr Theodore Wind Scholarship Fund | Little Falls, NY | $680 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| American Heart Association | Utica, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Herkimer County Historical Society | Herkimer, NY | $500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Little Falls Police Benevolent Association | Little Falls, NY | $500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| 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 |
| Dolgeville Youth Commission | Dolgeville, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Friends of the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetary Inc | Poughkeepsie, NY | $250 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Little Falls Little League | Little Falls, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| 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 |
| Main Street First Inc | Little Falls, NY | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Little Falls Jrsr High School Yearbook | Little Falls, NY | $140 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
40 of 62 (65%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
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 - Friends of Norris Cotton Cancer Center
2025 CONTRIBUTION - JUDY CSATARI - Mvhs Foundation
2025 MEMBERSHIP AND DONATION - Hospice & Palliative Care Inc
IN MEMORY OF BILL BURROWS - Little Falls Hospital
2022 DEVELOPMENT FUND DRIVE - Mmgimbi LLC
DONATION TO SKATING CLUB FOR OFF-ICE TRAINING EQUIPMENT
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 81 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
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 |
| 2025 | 42 | $790,409 | $4,000 |
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
88% of its giving went to organizations in New York. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- 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 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
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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