New York · Private foundation
Helen Keeler Burke Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $126k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Helen Keeler Burke Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $126k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $118k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $116k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $135k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $121k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $106k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $104k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $106k | 14% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warriors of the Wonderful Sound Inc | $287,000 | 9 | 78% |
| Cate School | $123,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Water Street Glassworks | $96,000 | 6 | 5% |
| American Farmland Trust | $81,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Bridgeview School of Fine Arts Inc | $61,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Ox-Bow | $26,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Old Souls | $17,780 | 3 | n/a |
| Great Lakes Coalition | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $9,326 | 9 | 0% |
| Democracy Now Productions Inc | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($212k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Helen Keeler Burke Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Marin Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Helen Keeler Burke Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Helen Keeler Burke Charitable Foundation
- How much does Helen Keeler Burke Charitable Foundation give?
- Helen Keeler Burke Charitable Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $125,980 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Helen Keeler Burke Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (48%), Education (25%), Environment (11%).
- Who are Helen Keeler Burke Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Warriors of the Wonderful Sound Inc ($287k), Cate School ($124k), Water Street Glassworks ($96k).
- Does Helen Keeler Burke Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helen Keeler Burke Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Helen Keeler Burke Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is Helen Keeler Burke Charitable Foundation based?
- Helen Keeler Burke Charitable Foundation is based in NY.
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