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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 FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$11MHealth$1.4MEnvironment$475kArts & Culture$416kScience & Tech$200kHuman Services$184kPhilanthropy$163kAnimals$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $111k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$354k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLGATE UNIVERSITY$250,000
BARRETT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$50,000
VIA ART FUND$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA WESTERN$25,000
THE GOTHAM FILM AND MEDIA INSTITUTE$16,250
EPISCOPAL ACADEMY$10,000
THE RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION$10,000
GREENLIGHT FUND$10,000
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL$10,000
AMERICAN FUND FOR THE SOUTHBANK CENTRE$10,000
HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA$10,000
EVERY MOTHER COUNTS$10,000
THE HAMPTON LIBRARY$5,000
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $1.0M → 7%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $100k → 8%MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $50k → 9%THE STATION FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA WESTERN: $84k → 12%EPISCOPAL ACADEMY: $50k → 10%STEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS: $267k → 22%COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $7.0M → 11%VIA ART FUND: $50k → 17%BOTTOM LINE: $32k → 20%BONEFISH AND TARPON TRUST: $10k → 15%WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE: $10k → 7%NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $25k → 6%MAINE MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 7%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $25k → 7%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $100k → 8%GREENLIGHT FUND: $10k → 16%THE STATION FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA WESTERN: $84k → 12%HORIZONS THE EPISCOPAL ACADEMY: $15k → 10%STEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS: $51k → 22%THE RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $3.0M → 11%BOB WOODRUFF FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%BOTTOM LINE: $32k → 20%NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $25k → 6%MAINE MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 7%HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $10k → 8%THE STATION FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA WESTERN: $82k → 12%EPISCOPAL ACADEMY: $15k → 10%COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $250k → 11%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $15k → 17%IFP: $25k → 20%BARRETT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%EPISCOPAL ACADEMY: $10k → 10%GREENLIGHT FUND PHILADELPHIA: $125k → 22%COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $63k → 11%THE GOTHAM FILM AND MEDIA INSTITUTE: $16k → 20%BARRETT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%EPISCOPAL ACADEMY: $10k → 10%COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $51k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA WESTERN: $25k → 12%COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 11%COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $38k → 11%STEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS: $197k → 22%COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 11%STEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS: $50k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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MT
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$14M · 21 repeat orgs$606k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
16

Total granted

$14M
$480k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+24%

Still filing today

90%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEnvironmentEducationAnimalsInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CU
    COLGATE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $10M · revenue +60%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +44%
  • SS
    STEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $565k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • YF
    YELLOWSTONE FOREVERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +287%
  • GF
    GREENLIGHT FUND PHILADELPHIA
    one grant, 2020 · $125k
  • I
    IFP
    one grant, 2020 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
5
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
6
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
7
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
8
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
12
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Loss and Bereavement and the most unlike its peers is Tinworks Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts CentersHealth Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Independent K-12 SchoolsAddiction Recovery ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesPublic Library OperationsDomestic Violence ServicesMilitary Veterans SupportCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr19%20%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr19%1%20–35yr13%3%35–55yr16%95%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,719

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 52 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
27/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COLGATE UNIVERSITY — $10,471,074 · EducationCOLGATE UNIVERSITY+4 more — $296,086 · EducationDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $1,074,818 · HealthDana-Farber…THE STATION FOUNDATION — $125,000 · HealthTHE STATION…Barrett Hospital Foundation Inc — $100,000 · HealthBarrett Hos…MaineHealth — $100,000 · HealthMaineHealth+5 more — $36,000 · HealthSTEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC — $564,705 · OtherSTEPPINGS…UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA WESTERN — $275,000 · OtherUNIVERSIT…GREENLIGHT FUND PHILADELPHIA — $125,020 · OtherGREENLIGH…MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY — $55,000 · Other+17 more — $138,000 · Other+17 moreYELLOWSTONE FOREVER — $249,842 · EnvironmentTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE — $200,000 · Environment+3 more — $25,000 · EnvironmentPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $209,734 · Arts & CultureTINWORKS ART — $100,000 · Arts & CultureVIA ART FUND INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureINDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC — $26,250 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BOTTOM LINE INC — $64,000 · Community ImprovementGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $49,717 · AnimalsBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC — $10,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA — $5,000 · Animals
Education$10,767,160Health$1,435,818Other$1,157,725Environment$474,842Arts & Culture$405,984Community Improvement$74,000Animals$64,717

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $200,086 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY MOTHER COUNTS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $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 budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR LOSS AND BEREAVEMENT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 2y, 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 budgetHURU INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL WALDENSTROM'S MACROGLOBULINEMIA FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPETER'S PLACE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Silicon Valley Commun…United Way of Greater…National Philanthropi…Boston Foundation IncVanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Enterprise Holdings F…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…
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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Burke Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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