Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Charles R Burke Jr Foundation
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.
- $199k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $26,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 44
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Charles R Burke Jr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $199k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $178k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $246k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $316k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $193k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $179k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 44 | $235k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $167k | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Fred Rogers Company | $232,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Quantum Theatre Inc | $222,500 | 9 | 3% |
| The Pittsburgh Promise Foundation | $170,800 | 9 | 1% |
| Aspinwall Riverfront Park Inc | $144,500 | 7 | 5% |
| The Mentoring Partnership of Sw Pa | $129,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Kenyon College | $104,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Carnegie Institute | $100,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Cultural Trust | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Second Harvest | $83,400 | 7 | 4% |
| Planned Parenthood of Western Pa Inc | $68,110 | 5 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($230k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Charles R Burke Jr 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 Burke Family Foundation · The Burke Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · The Buhl Foundation · Eqt Foundation · The Fine Foundation
How this is measured
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About Charles R Burke Jr Foundation
- How much does Charles R Burke Jr Foundation give?
- Charles R Burke Jr Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $198,895 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Charles R Burke Jr Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Education (19%), Youth Development (8%).
- Who are Charles R Burke Jr Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Fred Rogers Company ($233k), Quantum Theatre Inc ($223k), The Pittsburgh Promise Foundation ($171k).
- Does Charles R Burke Jr Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Charles R Burke Jr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Charles R Burke Jr Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Burke Family Foundation, The Burke Foundation, The Pittsburgh Foundation.
- Where is Charles R Burke Jr Foundation based?
- Charles R Burke Jr Foundation is based in PA.
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