· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ST CECILIA CHURCH | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $20,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $20,000 |
| SISTERS OF CHARITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY | $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 |
| HAPPY JOE'S KIDS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CAMP HERTKO HOLLOW INC | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF STORY COUNTY | $10,000 |
| MARTHA'S HOUSE OF HOPE INC | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 13% of Burke Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in IA; by stated purpose, 91%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- WBWatchtower Bible & Tract Societyone grant, 2020 · $25k
- SOSisters of Charity BVMone grant, 2021 · $20k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 CAMP HERTKO HOLLOW INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF STORY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD AT FIRST ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Hope For The Warriors ↗
- Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ASSAULT CARE CENTER EXTENDING SHELTER AN ↗
- Who funds OBRIA MEDICAL CLINIC OF AMES ↗
- Who funds INFORMED CHOICE OF IOWA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MARY GREELEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Burke Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burke Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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