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Burpee Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$998k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$1.2MEnvironment$839kEducation$440kHealth$400kArts & Culture$193kHuman Services$169kCrime & Legal$116kInternational$98kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $341k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+2 grants · $525k
$15,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YO$275,000
BARD COLLEGE$250,000
THE BRIDGE INC$100,000
SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES$41,667
THE FORTUNE SOCIETY$36,000
BARTLETT ARBORETUM ASSOCIATION$25,000
THE GIVING GROVE$25,000
GARDEN TIME INC$25,000
SKY HIGH FARM$20,000
ENVIRONMENTAL VOLUNTEERS ORG$20,000
QUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY$20,000
COLUMBIA CENTER FOR URBAN$18,000
CITY PARKS FOUNDATION$15,000
BACKYARD GROWERS INC$15,000
ISLAND HARVEST INC$15,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $385k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ISLAND HARVEST INC: $15k → 7%BOULDER CREST RETREAT: $20k → 7%BOULDER CREST RETREAT: $20k → 7%THE BRIDGE INC: $100k → 17%THE BRIDGE: $75k → 17%THE BRIDGE: $45k → 17%THE BRIDGE: $40k → 17%THE BRIDGE: $25k → 17%THE BRIDGE: $25k → 17%PRESBYTERIAN SENIOR SERVICE: $10k → 17%PRESBYTERIAN SENIOR SERVICES: $10k → 17%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

WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
DE
AZ
DC
LA
AL
TX
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 27 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
23

Total granted

$2.3M
$815k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+22%

Still filing today

89%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $519k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHealthInternationalEducationOther
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

  • TH
    THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK
    3× · 2019–2021 · $510k · revenue +184%
  • TB
    THE BRIDGE INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $310k · revenue +113%
  • BARD COLLEGE
    2× · 2017–2024 · $300k · revenue +256%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NY
    one grant, 2017 · $212k
  • NP
    NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue +117%
  • TA
    THESSALONICA AGRICULTURAL & INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE (THE AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL)graduated
    one grant, 2019 · $83k · revenue +63%
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.

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New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
2
Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens

The mission of the jenkins arboretum & gardens is to preserve natural, tranquil woodlands for community enjoyment, to showcase native plants and a world class collection of rhododendrons and azaleas, and to promote environmental…

Environment
3
Denver Botanic Gardens Inc

The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.

Environment
4
Stone Barns Restoration Corp Dba Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri

Stone barns center is a nonprofit farm, education, and research center with a mission to catalyze an ecological food culture. since 2004, we have been driving innovation in sustainable farming practices and mindful food choices that…

Arts & Culture
5
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
6
City Growers Inc

Through our original curriculum design that uses innovative growing spaces on rooftop farms, in school gardens, and public parks - city growers fosters a love of nature and encourages nyc youth to consider their place, agency, and future…

Food & Nutrition
7
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
8
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
9
National Tropical Botanical Garden

To enrich life by perpetuating tropical plants, ecosystems and cultural heritage through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education.

Environment
10
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…

Recreation & Sports
11
Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance

The garfield park conservatory alliance inspires, educates and provokes exploration through innovative programs and experiences in one of the nation's largest and finest plant conservatories. the conservatory changes lives through the…

Environment
12
Governors Island Alliance

Governors island alliance dba governors island foundation works to ensure the island's continued growth, vitality, and accessibility as a vibrant public resource and is the designated fundraising partner of the trust for governors island.…

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Queens Botanical Garden Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Andalusia Foundation. 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

47 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. 47 of the 66 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
36/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YO: $275,000 · OtherTHE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YOTHE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NY: $212,000 · OtherTHE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NYNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $125,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONCROWN COMMUNITY GARDEN: $82,850 · OtherCROWN COMMUNITY GARDENGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $70,000 · OtherBARTRAM'S GARDEN: $70,000 · OtherThe Orme School: $60,000 · OtherYMCA OF BUCKS AND HUNTERDON: $51,900 · OtherTHESSALONICA AGRICULTURAL & INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE (THE AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL): $83,333 · OtherTHESSALONICA AGRICULTURAL & INDUSTRIAL INSTITUT…+29 more: $493,634 · Other+29 moreTHE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $510,000 · EnvironmentTHE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NE…THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $110,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $100,000 · EnvironmentTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL …COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $72,500 · EnvironmentCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INCBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $55,000 · EnvironmentBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORA…Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture: $45,000 · EnvironmentQUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC: $40,000 · Environment+5 more: $94,500 · Environment+5 moreTHE BRIDGE INC: $310,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE …BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Human ServicesBOULDER CRE…PRESBYTERIAN SENIOR SERVICES: $20,000 · Human ServicesISLAND HARVEST LTD: $15,000 · Human ServicesBARD COLLEGE: $300,000 · EducationBARD COLL…DICKINSON COLLEGE: $23,500 · EducationDICKINSON…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $151,667 · Arts & CultureTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $81,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC: $60,000 · Health+1 more: $3,000 · HealthBACKYARD GROWERS INC: $47,000 · Food & NutritionTHE GIVING GROVE: $25,000 · Food & NutritionSKY HIGH FARM INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionChipping Hill Micro Farms: $15,000 · Food & NutritionBUCKS COUNTY FOODSHED ALLIANCE INC: $7,500 · Food & NutritionOsamequin Farm Inc: $4,380 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,523,717Environment$1,027,000Human Services$385,000Education$323,500Arts & Culture$151,667Health$144,000Food & Nutrition$118,880

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $510,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetTHE BRIDGE INC: $310,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $151,667 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $110,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHESSALONICA AGRICULTURAL & INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE (THE AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL): $83,333 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $81,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $72,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Orme School: $60,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBACKYARD GROWERS INC: $47,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetColumbia Center for Urban Agriculture: $45,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetQUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGarden Time Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetSERVICES FOR THE UNDERSERVED INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDANCE CENTER OF WESTCHESTER INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIVING GROVE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBARTLETT ARBORETUM ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetALLIES INC: $23,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDICKINSON COLLEGE: $23,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKY HIGH FARM INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEnvironmental Volunteers Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN SENIOR SERVICES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of the National Arboretum: $19,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC: $17,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetISLAND HARVEST LTD: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER CITY DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY AUDUBON SOCIETY: $15,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetMercy Ships International: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIANUS RIVER GORGE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEducation Outside: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY FOODSHED ALLIANCE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetGREYSTON FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANDALUSIA FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Horticultural Therapy Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PARKS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOsamequin Farm Inc: $4,380 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCONCERN FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The New York Communit…Robin Hood FoundationClif Family FoundationJewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Silicon Valley Commun…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …Donor Advised Charita…
The New York Community TrustNY13.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Burpee Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burpee Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Osamequin Farm Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Allies Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Burpee Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Burpee Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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 66 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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