· Private foundation
Harry & Fay Burka Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k10 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADAS ISRAEL CONGREGATION | $15,189 |
| ART MUSIC SOCIETY | $8,000 |
| THE PEOPLE FOR AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY | $6,000 |
| ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $2,500 |
| WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| TEMPLE SHIR TIKVAH | $1,874 |
| AMERICA-ISRAEL CULTRUAL FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| HUMAN RESCUE ALLIANCE | $1,000 |
| THE ANCHOR FUND | $1,000 |
| THE DISTRICT CUP FOUNDATION | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TGTHE GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY INC4× · 2020–2023 · $50k · revenue +215%
- AMART MUSIC SOCIETY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $16k · revenue +210% · 79% of their budget
- AMActive Minds Inc3× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- SASAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +90%
- CPColumbia Pike Partnership Incone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +3%
- MTMARTHA'S TABLE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +27%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The District of Columbia Arts Center serves the Washington DC area by presenting high caliber and challenging works. It encourages professionalism among artists by providing a forum for educational and cultural exchange. DCAC was founded…
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
The mission of the d.c. policy center is to arm decision makers with fact-based, unbiased, and reliable research and analyses to help create a vibrant local economy that can maximize opportunities for residents, workers, and businesses in…
Amplify the work of our community by bringing people and resources together.
DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.
Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…
Washington project for the arts, inc. (wpa) supports artist-driven projects, advocacy, and dialogue so that artists can live, work, and flourish.
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
To enrich the quality of life, foster intellectual stimulation, and promote cross-cultural understanding and appreciation of local history and culture in all neighborhoods of the district through humanities programs and grants.
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
To improve the quality of life for all persons with intellectual disabilities and their families through supports and advocacy.
District alliance for safe housing, inc. (dash) is an innovator in providing access to safe housing and services to survivors of domestic and sexual violence and their families as they rebuild their lives on their own terms.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Performing Arts Society and the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY INC ↗
- Who funds ART MUSIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Active Minds Inc ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds THE ANCHOR FUND ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Alexandria Seaport Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC ↗
- Who funds Columbia Pike Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds EDENS COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum ↗
- Who funds GOOD PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Friendship Place ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SITAR ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMAGINATION STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DISTRICT CUP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL UNION MISSION ↗
- Who funds Good Neighbor Settlement House Inc ↗
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.
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
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 organization Harry & Fay Burka Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Imagination Stage Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Griffin Museum of Photography Inc — 5% of income from government
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 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.