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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 72-6030712

The Burden Foundation

A private foundation in Baton Rouge, LA. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 3 grants and $917,671 paid in grants.

Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Preselected only

The return checks the box saying the foundation gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.
  • Tax year 2025

    $917,671

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $10,263,937
  • Tax year 2024

    $304,466

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $10,581,480
  • Tax year 2023

    $923,861

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $10,075,601
  • Tax year 2022

    $566,898

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $9,717,181
  • Tax year 2021

    $528,540

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $9,704,813
  • Tax year 2020

    $372,453

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $9,104,716
  • Tax year 2019

    $893,287

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $9,155,248
  • Tax year 2018

    $549,343

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $8,852,576

Grants paid in 2025

3 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. LSU FoundationBaton Rouge, LA

    Education

    $523,950
  2. LSU FoundationBaton Rouge, LA

    Education

    $250,000
  3. Baton Rouge Area FoundationBaton Rouge, LA

    Donor advised fund

    $143,721

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Education2 grants $773,95084% of the total
  2. Philanthropy and grantmaking1 grant $143,72116% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. Louisiana3 grants $917,671

Officers, directors and trustees

17 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • William SilviaPRESIDENT Hours 2Pay $0
  • Annette D BartonVICE PRESIDE Hours 2Pay $0
  • G Trippe HawthorneSECRETARY Hours 2Pay $0
  • Steele BuckholtzTREASURER Hours 2Pay $0
  • Leonard L Kilgore IIIBOARD MEMBER Hours 1Pay $0
  • Dr Tom J MeekBOARD MEMBER Hours 1Pay $0
  • Frances MonroeBOARD MEMBER Hours 1Pay $0
  • Brandon ParlangeBOARD MEMBER Hours 1Pay $0
  • Dorsey PeekBOARD MEMBER Hours 1Pay $0
  • Ann WilkinsonBOARD MEMBER Hours 1Pay $0
  • Juliet M YoungbloodBOARD MEMBER Hours 1Pay $0
  • Carlton MonroeBOARD MEMBER Hours 1Pay $0
  • Luke Laborde JrBOARD MEMBER Hours 1Pay $0
  • Susan TurnerBOARD MEMBER Hours 1Pay $0
  • James PocheBOARD MEMBER Hours 1Pay $0
  • Charles Lamar IIIBOARD MEMBER Hours 1Pay $0
  • Robert Hawthorne JrBOARD MEMBER Hours 1Pay $0

The return

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