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Burke Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $226k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STORY COUNTY (AMES CHAPTER) | $110,000 |
| LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC | $30,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $20,000 |
| SISTERS OF CHARITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $20,000 |
| ST CECILIA CHURCH | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $20,000 |
| ST PATRICK'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $12,000 |
| BETHESDA LUTHERAN CHURCH | $12,000 |
| FOOD AT FIRST AMES | $12,000 |
| HOPE FOR THE WARRIORS PROJECT INC | $10,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| HAPPY JOE'S KIDS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF STORY COUNTY | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $354k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Burke Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in IA; read by stated purpose it is 91% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SUSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +53%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches6× · 2020–2025 · $225k · revenue +38%
- LSLUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $145k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Iowaone grant, 2020 · $250k
- HJHappy Joes Kids Foundationone grant, 2020 · $35k
- WBWatchtower Bible & Tract Societyone grant, 2020 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…
We, mercy hospital of franciscan sisters and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy hospital of franciscan sisters is a member of…
We, covenant medical center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. covenant medical center is a member of trinity health.
Empowering communities through specialized and inclusive reproductive health services.
We believe that access to affordable healthcare is a basic human necessity, and we strive to provide the widest range of medical servoces possible to the people in the iowa city and surrounding community who would not otherwise have access…
Dakota hope offers services that empower women and men to make choices about sexual health and pregnancy that will help them and their children to have a bright future. these services include pregnancy tests, ultrasound, and evidence-based…
We, mercy medical center - centerville and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communitites. mercy medical center - centerville is a member of trinity…
To provide christ-centered medical, parenting, and life-skill services to extend help, offer hope, and promote healing.
We, sartori memorial hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. sartori memorial hospital is a member of trinity health.
We, mercy health services - iowa and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. hospice of north iowa is a member of mercy health services - iowa…
We, mercy clinics and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy clinics is a member of trinity health.
We are a state licensed substance abuse facility which functions to provide a clinically managed residence treatment center for women and women with children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Services in Iowa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Obria Medical Clinic of Ames. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 41 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF STORY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHAS HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF STORY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP HERTKO HOLLOW INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD AT FIRST ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Hope For The Warriors ↗
- Who funds ASSAULT CARE CENTER EXTENDING SHELTER AN ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds OBRIA MEDICAL CLINIC OF AMES ↗
- Who funds INFORMED CHOICE OF IOWA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MARY GREELEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Becker Family Foundation · Underwood Family Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Robert V & Shirley V Dahl Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · United Way of Story County Inc · South Story Bank Charitable Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · United Way Worldwide · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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.
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.
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