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Nathan B & Florence R Burt Foundation

Golden, CO · EIN 84-0972203. Reported 64 grants totalling $719,550 to 44 recipients 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
44recipients, as named on its returns
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. 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.

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. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 49 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.

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

99% of its giving went to organizations in Colorado. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

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 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.

Colorado Gives Foundation34 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund33 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc25 shared recipientsThe Denver Foundation25 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc24 shared recipientsRose Community Foundation20 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  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). 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 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.

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