· Private foundation
Burks Family Foundation Inc CO Keith W Burks
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $62k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $148k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Butler University | $148,000 |
| Ascension St Vincent Foundation | $27,100 |
| Mountain Mission School | $15,000 |
| United Way of Central Indiana | $10,000 |
| IU Foundation | $10,000 |
| Indiana Golf Foundation | $5,000 |
| Cancer Support Community - Indiana | $5,000 |
| The First Tee of NaplesCollier | $5,000 |
| The Patriot Fund | $3,000 |
| Brightlane Learning | $2,500 |
| Naples Botanical Garden | $2,500 |
| United Way of Collier County FL | $2,500 |
| The Villages of Indiana | $2,500 |
| Gleaners Food Bank | $2,000 |
| Wheeler Mission | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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.
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 +62% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- BUButler University6× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +39%
- SVST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $187k · revenue +72%
- MMMOUNTAIN MISSION SCHOOL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- TTTHE THIRST PROJECTone grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue -37%
- EIElevate Indianapolis Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +645%
- SMSt Matthews House Naples Flone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
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…
Indiana united way is the leading voice to advocate, engage, and partner with a strong united way network and key stakeholders to advance human well-being throughout indiana.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
To mobilize people, ideas, and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…
The indiana university alumni association activates and supports the global alumni network- encouraging alumni to grow a lifelong connection with indiana university, and inspiring their ongoing generosity toward each other and the…
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
The mission of indy hunger network is to address systemic hunger issues and eliminate disparities in the greater indianapolis hunger relief system through collaboration on programs, advocacy, and research.
By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Villages of Indiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Patriot 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 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
24 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. 24 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 Butler University ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN MISSION SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY INDIANA ↗
- Who funds INDIANA GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Villages of Indiana Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP ↗
- Who funds THE THIRST PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Elevate Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds DREAM ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds Lake Maxinkuckee Environmental Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds Golden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
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: The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Hoover Family Foundation · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · 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 Burks Family Foundation Inc CO Keith W Burks 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.
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% 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.