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· Private foundation
CYNTHIA FOSTER BURKE FOUNDATION
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$8k
Granted FY2021
8
Grants
5
Communities
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of CYNTHIA FOSTER BURKE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
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2020
financial pursuitpursuit overalloverall objectives
2021
financial pursuitpursuit overalloverall objectives
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2021 · 8 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$1,052
- STEPHEN SILLER OTP$1,000
- CROSSROADS COMMUNITY CENTER$1,000
- THE SALVATION ARMY$1,000
- JUDICIAL WATCH$1,000
- THE ARC MERCER$1,000
- WOUNDED WARRIOR$972
- ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPI$555
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
20%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4k · 3 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2021, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
3
10
Total granted
$4k
$10k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
-67%
+17%
Still filing today
33%
40%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther
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
- MAMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $2k
- SJST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPI3× · 2019–2021 · $2k
- RQRYAN'S QUEST INC2× · 2017–2019 · $80 · revenue -67%
Funded once
- LLEADgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +1708%
- VPVFW POST 491one grant, 2020 · $1k
- BFBARBELLS FOR BOOBSone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -100%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
The Arc of Bergen and Passaic Counties
The arc provides support and assistance to individuals with disabilities and their families to help them build successful futures.
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2
Probation Association of New Jersey
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3
Meals on Wheels of Mercer County Inc
To assist participants in Mercer County, NJ in maintaining independence, dignity, health & well-being by providing comprehensive nutrician services and helping ease social isolation.
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4
Parkinsons Wellness Center of New Jersey Inc
Health
5
Meals on Wheels in Hunterdon Inc
Provide nutritious meals to the homebound senior citizens and disabled of Hunterdon County, New Jersey to maintain and improve their health. To operate congregate centers that serve independent senior citizens in Hunterdon
Human Services
6
Avidd Community Services of New Jersey
The operation and management of group homes and apts. for the benefit of developmentally disabled clients of the state of nj.
Health
7
Meals On Wheels of Somerset County
Providing meals to the elderly and needy
Food & Nutrition
8
Meals On Wheels People Inc
We enrich lives of seniors by providing nutritious food. (see schedule o for continuation)we also assist them in maintaining independence, provide human connections, and provide social support.
Food & Nutrition
9
Meals On Wheels of Salem County Inc
he mission of Meals on Wheels of Salem County (MOW) is to provide hot nutritious meals to disabled and persons who are over the age of 60 and unable to provide for themselves, prepare their own meals and make daily purchases of foods and…
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10
Leadingage New Jersey
Dedicated to advancing quality aging services through advocacy, education and fellowship.
Health
11
Out for Justice Inc
Out for Justice Inc. OFJ is an organization comprised of individuals who are directly or indirectly impacted by the criminal justice system advocating for the reform of policies & practicesthat adversely affect successful reentry to…
Crime & Legal
12
Justice Rapid Response Usa Inc
Crime & Legal
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arcmercer Inc and the most unlike its peers is Judicial Watch Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$15,979Health$1,080Human Services$1,000Public Benefit$1,000Food & Nutrition$1,000
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.
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.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation IncNJ13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation CYNTHIA FOSTER BURKE FOUNDATION 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- The Arcmercer Inc — 9% of income from government
- Lead Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BARBELLS FOR BOOBS.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 272027629 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on BARBELLS FOR BOOBS, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Cynthia Foster Burke Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Cynthia Foster Burke Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines