· Private foundation
Burket-Plack Foundation Inc 0649-01-49
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $222k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| South Fork Natural History Society | $60,000 |
| Sky Mountain Wild Horse Sanctuary | $45,000 |
| Utah Film Center | $31,800 |
| Cattown Studios Inc | $30,000 |
| Marine Mammal Stranding Center | $28,000 |
| The Science and Conservation Center Inc | $20,000 |
| The Peregrine Fund | $13,000 |
| Philadelphia Metro Wildlife Center | $12,000 |
| Paws Crossed Rescue | $12,000 |
| Mobilization for Animals Pennsylvania | $10,000 |
| Community Cat Club Inc | $10,000 |
| The Spayed Club | $10,000 |
| Whiskers World Inc | $8,000 |
| Peaceful Fields Sanctuary | $8,000 |
| Chenoa Manor | $8,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 70% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against -52% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- ASATLANTIC SHARK INSTITUTE3× · 2021–2023 · $135k · revenue +143% · 48% of their budget
- MMMarine Mammal Stranding Center4× · 2021–2024 · $114k · revenue +22%
- UFUTAH FILM CENTER3× · 2021–2024 · $75k · revenue +77%
Funded once
KEY WEST WILDLIFE CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -52%
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.
Animal Welfare
Licensed organization dedicated to caring for injured, orphaned, sick and displaced wildlife for the purpose of releasing them back into the wild.
Cat rescue spay/ nueter
Animal rescue and housing
To reduce the number of cats taken to shelters by promoting the importance of spaying/neutering and cat adoptions.
Friends of Feral Felines provided Trap, Neuter, Vaccinate, Return (TNVR) subsidies for 1,919 unowned community cats
To manage feral and stray cat populations. The process involves trapping the cats in a humane manner, getting them spayed or neutered, vaccinated against rabies, and then returning them to their original location.
Animal Rescue
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Forgotten Cats Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Peregrine Fund Inc. 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.
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 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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. 23 of the 31 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 ATLANTIC SHARK INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Sky Mountain Wild Horse Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds Marine Mammal Stranding Center ↗
- Who funds THE SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA METRO WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEREGRINE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FORK NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MOBILIZATION FOR ANIMALS PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds Peaceful Fields Sanctuary Corporation ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN CATS INC ↗
- Who funds CHENOA MANOR ↗
- Who funds SPAY & SAVE INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS ↗
- Who funds THE SPAYED CLUB ↗
- Who funds STRAY CAT RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds WHISKERS WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MEOW ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CAT CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Main Line Animal Rescue Inc ↗
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: Joseph Robert Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Burket-Plack Foundation Inc 0649-01-49 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Marine Mammal Stranding Center — 10% of income from government
- Forgotten Cats Inc — 4% of income from government
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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