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Cynthia Foster Burke Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8k
Granted FY2021
8
Grants FY2021
8
Organizations funded FY2021
75%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$1,052
Organizations funded a year
1 to 11
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
5
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 75% of the organizations Cynthia Foster Burke Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 79% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
HealthHuman ServicesPublic BenefitFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20218$8k75%
FY202011$11k91%
FY20192$42050%
FY20181$1k100%
FY20171$60n/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Human Services$7kHealth$4kFood & Nutrition$2kEducation$1kCrime & Legal$1kPublic Benefit$1kReligion$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Cynthia Foster Burke Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$1,95530%
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 491$1,00010%
The Arcmercer Inc$1,00010%
Judicial Watch Inc$1,00010%
American Diabetes Association$1,00010%
TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc$1,00010%
Crossroads Community Center$1,0001n/a
Lead Inc$1,00010%
Barbells for Boobs$1,00010%
Meals on Wheels Inc$1,00010%
Ryan's Quest Inc$8020%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cynthia Foster Burke Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,955 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans of Foreign Wars Post 491: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Arcmercer Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLead Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBarbells for Boobs: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMeals on Wheels Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRyan's Quest Inc: $80 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Cynthia Foster Burke Foundation

How much does Cynthia Foster Burke Foundation give?
Cynthia Foster Burke Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $7,579 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Cynthia Foster Burke Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Human Services (35%), Health (20%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
Who are Cynthia Foster Burke Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($2k), Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 491 ($1k), The Arcmercer Inc ($1k).
Does Cynthia Foster Burke Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Cynthia Foster Burke Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cynthia Foster Burke Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Cynthia Foster Burke Foundation based?
Cynthia Foster Burke Foundation is based in NJ.

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 19 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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