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Burket-Plack Foundation Inc 0649-01-49 at a glance

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Burket-Plack Foundation Inc 0649-01-49

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$336k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Animals$1.1MArts & Culture$195kEnvironment$129kHuman Services$21kEducation$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $250k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
South Fork Natural History Society$60,000
Sky Mountain Wild Horse Sanctuary$45,000
Community Cat Club Inc$35,000
Marine Mammal Stranding Center$30,000
The Spayed Club$30,000
Friends of Southern Ocean County$25,000
Cattown Studios Inc$25,000
The Science and Conservation Center Inc$20,000
The Peregrine Fund$10,000
Whiskers World Inc$10,000
The Spayed Club$10,000
Sweet Olive Farm Animal Rescue Inc$10,000
Peaceful Fields Sanctuary$8,000
Paws Crossed Rescue$6,000
Trustees of Tufts College$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Forgotten Cats Inc: $20k → 10%The Peregrine Fund: $20k → 8%The Science and Conservation Center Inc: $20k → 9%Philadelphia Metro Wildlife Center: $20k → 7%The Spayed Club: $30k → 10%Whiskers World Inc: $10k → 15%Cattown Studios Inc: $31k → 22%South Fork Natural History Society: $60k → 7%Atlantic Shark Institute: $60k → 7%Utah Film Center: $35k → 8%Sweet Olive Farm Animal Rescue Inc: $10k → 13%Friends of Southern Ocean County: $25k → 11%Marine Mammal Stranding Center: $30k → 11%Paws Crossed Rescue: $13k → 12%Peaceful Fields Sanctuary: $10k → 7%The Peregrine Fund: $20k → 8%The Science and Conservation Center Inc: $20k → 9%Philadelphia Metro Wildlife Center: $20k → 7%The Spayed Club: $10k → 10%Cattown Studios Inc: $30k → 22%South Fork Natural History Society: $60k → 7%Atlantic Shark Institute: $45k → 7%Utah Film Center: $32k → 8%Friends of Southern Ocean County: $20k → 11%Marine Mammal Stranding Center: $30k → 11%Paws Crossed Rescue: $13k → 12%The Peregrine Fund: $13k → 8%The Science and Conservation Center Inc: $20k → 9%Philadelphia Metro Wildlife Center: $20k → 7%Cattown Studios Inc: $25k → 22%Atlantic Shark Institute: $30k → 7%Friends of Southern Ocean County: $20k → 11%Marine Mammal Stranding Center: $30k → 11%Paws Crossed Rescue: $12k → 12%The Science and Conservation Center Inc: $20k → 9%Mobilization for Animals Pennsylvania: $13k → 7%Cattown Studios Inc: $25k → 22%Friends of Southern Ocean County: $20k → 11%Marine Mammal Stranding Center: $28k → 11%Paws Crossed Rescue: $12k → 12%The Science and Conservation Center Inc: $20k → 9%Philadelphia Metro Wildlife Center: $12k → 7%Cattown Studios Inc: $25k → 22%Friends of Southern Ocean County: $20k → 11%Marine Mammal Stranding Center: $26k → 11%SEE SCHEDULE ATTACHED: $360k → 22%Nonlethal Options for Animals Inc: $25k → 22%Nonlethal Options for Animals Inc: $20k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MT
NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
UT
VA
DE
NM
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 30 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against -52% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
1

Total granted

$1.7M
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
-52%

Still filing today

73%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsScience & TechArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MM
    Marine Mammal Stranding Center
    5× · 2021–2025 · $144k · revenue +27%
  • AS
    ATLANTIC SHARK INSTITUTE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $135k · revenue +143% · 48% of their budget
  • TP
    THE PEREGRINE FUND INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $79k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • KEY WEST WILDLIFE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -52%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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2
For Every Rescue a Life Saved

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.

Animals
3
Cat Tail Farms Feline Sanctuary

Animal rescue and housing

Animals
4
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
5
Starfish Animal Rescue
Animals
6
Cats At the Studios Inc

Cat rescue spay/ nueter

Animals
7
All About the Cats Rescue Inc

Rescue, save and possibly re-home animals in need.

Animals
8
Friends of Feral Felines

Friends of Feral Felines provided Trap, Neuter, Vaccinate, Return (TNVR) subsidies for 1,919 unowned community cats

Animals
9
Sirens Cove Animal Rescue Inc

Reduce the number of stray cats in South Florida by educating the public through social media, community events, & perform TNR services (Trap, Neuter, & Release)for stray cats. We also rescue injured cats, foster them until homes are found.

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10
Centre Wildlife Care

Licensed organization dedicated to caring for injured, orphaned, sick and displaced wildlife for the purpose of releasing them back into the wild.

Animals
11
Friends of Surfside Cats Inc

Stray Animal Care

Animals
12
Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Forgotten Cats Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 34 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
14/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Sky Mountain Wild Horse Sanctuary: $175,000 · OtherSky Mountain Wild Horse SanctuaryCATTOWN STUDIOS INC: $135,500 · OtherCATTOWN STUDIOS INCFriends of Southern Ocean County: $131,500 · OtherFriends of Southern Ocean CountyTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $78,500 · OtherTHE PEREGRINE FUND INCPaws Crossed Rescue: $56,000 · OtherPaws Crossed RescueNonlethal Options for Animals Inc: $45,000 · OtherNonlethal Options for Animals Inc+6 more: $70,000 · Other+6 moreMarine Mammal Stranding Center: $144,000 · AnimalsMarine Mammal Stranding CenterTHE SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $100,000 · AnimalsTHE SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION CENTER INCPHILADELPHIA METRO WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $72,000 · AnimalsPHILADELPHIA METRO WILDLIFE CENTER INCTHE SPAYED CLUB: $65,500 · AnimalsTHE SPAYED CLUBCOMMUNITY CAT CLUB INC: $45,000 · AnimalsCOMMUNITY CAT CLUB INCPeaceful Fields Sanctuary Corporation: $42,000 · AnimalsPeaceful Fields Sanctuary CorporationMOBILIZATION FOR ANIMALS PENNSYLVANIA INC: $37,000 · AnimalsMOBILIZATION FOR ANIMALS PENNSYLVANIA INCFORGOTTEN CATS INC: $34,000 · AnimalsCHENOA MANOR: $32,000 · AnimalsWHISKERS WORLD INC: $26,000 · Animals+7 more: $86,000 · Animals+7 moreATLANTIC SHARK INSTITUTE: $135,000 · Science & TechSOUTH FORK NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY: $120,000 · EnvironmentUTAH FILM CENTER: $74,690 · Arts & CultureFEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS: $20,500 · Youth DevelopmentTrustees of Tufts College: $20,000 · Education
Other$691,500Animals$683,500Science & Tech$135,000Environment$120,000Arts & Culture$74,690Youth Development$20,500Education$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSky Mountain Wild Horse Sanctuary: $175,000 over 5y, 32% of budgetMarine Mammal Stranding Center: $144,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetATLANTIC SHARK INSTITUTE: $135,000 over 3y, 48% of budgetSOUTH FORK NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY: $120,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetTHE SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $100,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $78,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $74,690 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA METRO WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $72,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetTHE SPAYED CLUB: $65,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY CAT CLUB INC: $45,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetPeaceful Fields Sanctuary Corporation: $42,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetMOBILIZATION FOR ANIMALS PENNSYLVANIA INC: $37,000 over 4y, 52% of budgetFORGOTTEN CATS INC: $34,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCHENOA MANOR: $32,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetWHISKERS WORLD INC: $26,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetSPAY & SAVE INC: $22,500 over 3y, 35% of budgetFEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS: $20,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSTRAY CAT RELIEF FUND: $20,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT MEOW: $11,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetSweet Olive Farm Animal Rescue Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetKEY WEST WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMain Line Animal Rescue Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMACS FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budget
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 Sky Mountain Wild Horse Sanctuary ↗
  • Who funds Marine Mammal Stranding Center ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTIC SHARK INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH FORK NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PEREGRINE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA METRO WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SPAYED CLUB ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CAT CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds Peaceful Fields Sanctuary Corporation ↗
  • Who funds MOBILIZATION FOR ANIMALS PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
  • Who funds FORGOTTEN CATS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHENOA MANOR ↗
  • Who funds WHISKERS WORLD INC ↗
  • Who funds SPAY & SAVE INC ↗
  • Who funds FEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds STRAY CAT RELIEF FUND ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT MEOW ↗
  • Who funds Sweet Olive Farm Animal Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds KEY WEST WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Main Line Animal Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds MACS FUND ↗

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.

Joseph Robert Foundat…Lincoln Financial Fou…Paypal Charitable Giv…Verizon FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Joseph Robert Foundation IncPA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Burket-Plack Foundation Inc 0649-01-49 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burket-Plack Foundation Inc 0649-01-49. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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