Maryland · Private foundation
Harry & Fay Burka Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $46k
- Granted FY2023
- 11
- Grants FY2023
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
96% of Harry & Fay Burka Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Harry & Fay Burka Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $46k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $15,189
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 22
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 4
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 55% of the organizations Harry & Fay Burka Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 11 | $46k | 55% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $47k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $61k | 64% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $41k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adas Israel Hebrew Congregation | $75,334 | 5 | n/a |
| The Griffin Museum of Photography Inc | $50,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Art Music Society Inc | $16,000 | 2 | 79% |
| Active Minds Inc | $9,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Temple Shirtikvah Inc of Winchester | $9,025 | 5 | n/a |
| People for the American Way Foundation | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| America-Israel Cultural Foundation Inc | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Washington Performing Arts Society | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Interfaith Action for Human Rights | $4,300 | 2 | 1% |
| The Anchor Fund | $4,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Harry & Fay Burka Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · England Family Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts · Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · United Way of the National Capital Area · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About Harry & Fay Burka Foundation Inc
- How much does Harry & Fay Burka Foundation Inc give?
- Harry & Fay Burka Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $46,063 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Harry & Fay Burka Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (78%), Religion (8%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are Harry & Fay Burka Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Adas Israel Hebrew Congregation ($75k), The Griffin Museum of Photography Inc ($50k), Art Music Society Inc ($16k).
- Does Harry & Fay Burka Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harry & Fay Burka Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Harry & Fay Burka Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, England Family Foundation.
- Where is Harry & Fay Burka Foundation Inc based?
- Harry & Fay Burka Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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