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Burke Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$484k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
29%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 27
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$354k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Burke Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthEnvironmentAnimalsInternational
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving21$484k62%
FY20237$239k29%
FY202214$605k43%
FY202114$1.9M14%
FY202027$11Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$11MHealth$1.4MEnvironment$475kArts & Culture$416kScience & Tech$200kHuman Services$184kPhilanthropy$163kAnimals$65kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MT
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
VA
NC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Colgate University$10,471,07453%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$1,074,81820%
Steppingstone Scholars Inc$564,70532%
Yellowstone Forever$249,84212%
Philadelphia Museum of Art$209,73420%
The Montana Land Reliance$200,00031%
The Station Foundation$125,00023%
Tinworks Art$100,000214%
Barrett Hospital Foundation Inc$100,00028%
MaineHealth$100,00020%
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All grantees of Burke Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Colgate University$10,471,07453%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$1,074,81820%
Steppingstone Scholars Inc$564,70532%
Yellowstone Forever$249,84212%
Philadelphia Museum of Art$209,73420%
The Montana Land Reliance$200,00031%
The Station Foundation$125,00023%
Tinworks Art$100,000214%
Barrett Hospital Foundation Inc$100,00028%
MaineHealth$100,00020%
Episcopal Academy$85,00040%
The Bottom Line Inc$64,00020%
Via Art Fund Inc$50,00013%
National Wildlife Federation$49,71720%
Independent Feature Project Inc$26,25020%
Baker Industries Inc$20,00031%
Central Park Conservancy Inc$18,50020%
Every Mother Counts$10,00010%
Western Landowners Alliance$10,00010%
Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc$10,00010%
Greenlight Fund Inc$10,00010%
Museum Associates$10,00020%
The Release Recovery Foundation Inc$10,00011%
American Fund for the Southbank Centre Inc C/O McDermott Will & Emery LLP$10,00014%
Heights Philadelphia$10,00010%
The Trust for Public Land$10,00020%
Sesame Workshop$7,50020%
North Carolina Outward Bound School$5,00010%
The Center for Loss and Bereavement$5,00011%
Zoological Society of Philadelphia$5,00010%
Haven$5,00010%
Self-Help Enterprises$3,00030%
Facing History & Ourselves Inc$2,50010%
The One Love Foundation in Honor of Yeardley Love Inc$1,00010%
CureCervicalCancer$1,00010%
Peter's Place$1,00010%
The International Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Huru International Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($529k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Burke Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetColgate University: $10,471,074 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,074,818 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSteppingstone Scholars Inc: $564,705 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetYellowstone Forever: $249,842 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPhiladelphia Museum of Art: $209,734 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Montana Land Reliance: $200,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Station Foundation: $125,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTinworks Art: $100,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetBarrett Hospital Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetMaineHealth: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEpiscopal Academy: $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Bottom Line Inc: $64,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVia Art Fund Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $49,717 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIndependent Feature Project Inc: $26,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBaker Industries Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $18,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEvery Mother Counts: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWestern Landowners Alliance: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGreenlight Fund Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum Associates: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Release Recovery Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Fund for the Southbank Centre Inc C/O McDermott Will & Emery LLP: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetHeights Philadelphia: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trust for Public Land: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSesame Workshop: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Carolina Outward Bound School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Loss and Bereavement: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetZoological Society of Philadelphia: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHaven: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSelf-Help Enterprises: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFacing History & Ourselves Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe One Love Foundation in Honor of Yeardley Love Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCureCervicalCancer: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPeter's Place: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe International Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHuru International Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 39.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · National Philanthropic Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Burke Family Foundation

How much does Burke Family Foundation give?
Burke Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $483,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Burke Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (79%), Health (10%), Environment (3%).
Who are Burke Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Colgate University ($10M), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($1.1M), Steppingstone Scholars Inc ($565k).
Does Burke Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Burke Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Burke Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey.
Where is Burke Family Foundation based?
Burke Family Foundation is based in MT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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