Massachusetts · Private foundation
Burpee Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $998k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $275,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 19
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Burpee Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 25 | $998k | 64% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $302k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $294k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $370k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $375k | 41% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $443k | 53% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $105k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $788k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Horticultural Society of New York | $510,000 | 3 | 4% |
| The Bridge Inc | $310,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Bard College | $300,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $151,667 | 2 | 0% |
| National Park Foundation | $125,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Trust for Public Land | $110,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Thessalonica Agricultural & Industrial Institute (The American Farm School) | $83,333 | 1 | 1% |
| Crown Community Garden | $82,850 | 6 | n/a |
| The Fortune Society Inc | $81,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($872k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Burpee Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The New York Community Trust · Robin Hood Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Burpee Foundation
- How much does Burpee Foundation give?
- Burpee Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $997,547 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Burpee Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (32%), Environment (23%), Education (12%).
- Who are Burpee Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Horticultural Society of New York ($510k), The Bridge Inc ($310k), Bard College ($300k).
- Does Burpee Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Burpee Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Burpee Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, Robin Hood Foundation, Clif Family Foundation.
- Where is Burpee Foundation based?
- Burpee Foundation is based in MA.
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