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Cynthia Foster Burke Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Cynthia Foster Burke Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8k
Granted FY2021
8
Grants FY2021
5
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% 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
02FY2021 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$1,052
CROSSROADS COMMUNITY CENTER$1,000
THE ARC MERCER$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
JUDICIAL WATCH$1,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$1,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR$972
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPI$555
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE ARC MERCER: $1k → 11%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.
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.

20%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4k · 3 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +99% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

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

+99%
+30%

Still filing today

67%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21
HealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther
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

  • MA
    MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2k
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $2k · revenue +99%
  • RQ
    RYAN'S QUEST INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $80 · revenue -49%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • VO
    VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 491
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +2%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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.

1
Virtua Medical Group Pa

The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…

Health
2
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
3
The Arc of the United States

The arc of the united states (the arc) promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (idd) and actively supports their full inclusion and participation in the community throughout their…

Human Services
4
Meals on Wheels in Hunterdon Inc

To assist the homebound elderly/disabled of Hunterdon, New Jersey to maintain their independence by enhancing their nutritional health, thereby avoiding unwanted institutionalization.

Human Services
5
Disabled American Veterans - Dept of Nj

Assistance to disabled american veterans including assistance with claims, information and literature and assist local chapters and coordinate state convention

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6
Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc

Muscular dystrophy association (mda) is the #1 voluntary health organization in the united states for people living with muscular dystrophy, als, and related neuromuscular diseases. (cont. schedule o) for over 70 years, mda has led the way…

Health
7
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
8
The Arc of Union County Inc

To empower and support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. this organization will utilize all its resources to ensure that our individuals served, their families and all people with intellectual and…

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9
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…

Crime & Legal
10
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
11
Diabetes Technology Society

To facilitate research into the treatment, monitoring, diagnosis and prevention of diabetes.

Health
12
Critical Path Institute

The critical path institute is a catalyst in the development of new approaches that advance medical innovation and regulatory science. this is achieved by leading teams that share data, knowledge and expertise resulting in sound, consensus…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arcmercer Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

11 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. 11 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $2,052 · OtherMAKE A WISH FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 491: $1,000 · OtherVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 491Individual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY: $1,000 · OtherTHE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEYIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCROSSROADS COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,000 · OtherCROSSROADS COMMUNITY CENTERBARBELLS FOR BOOBS: $1,000 · OtherBARBELLS FOR BOOBSTHE SALVATION ARMY: $1,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $1,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS INCWOUNDED WARRIOR: $972 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIORST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,955 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RES…American Diabetes Association: $1,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Asso…LEAD INC: $1,000 · HealthLEAD INC+1 more: $80 · HealthTHE ARCMERCER INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $1,000 · Public BenefitTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$13,024Health$4,035Human Services$1,000Public Benefit$1,000Food & Nutrition$1,000

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

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cynthia Foster Burke Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cynthia Foster Burke Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • The Arcmercer Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Lead Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

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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