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.

Helen Keeler Burke Charitable Foundation

Helen Keeler Burke Charitable Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$40k

Largest

01What it funds

0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$437kEducation$228kEnvironment$103kCivil Rights$34kCrime & Legal$16kRecreation & Sports$12kPublic Benefit$8kInternational$7kOther$0

02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k15 grants · $29k
$10k–50k5 grants · $97k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WARRIORS OF THE WONDERFUL SOUND	$40,000
WATER STREET GLASSWORKS	$20,000
OX-BOW	$15,000
BRIDGEVIEW SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS	$12,000
AMERICAN FARM LAND TRUST	$10,000
OLD SOULS	$6,000
CARTER P BROWN LEGACY PRESERVATION FUND	$5,000
GREAT LAKES COALITION	$5,000
CATE SCHOOL	$2,000
AMERICANS UNITED FOR THE SEPARATION OF	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
INNOCENCE PROJECT INC	$1,000
BRONX DEFENDERS	$1,000
OCEAN CONSERVANCY	$1,000
THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.0M · 30 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+25%

Still filing today

70%

83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentArts & CultureCrime & LegalHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsOther

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

WO
WARRIORS OF THE WONDERFUL SOUND INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $287k · revenue +40% · 78% of their budget
CATE SCHOOL
9× · 2017–2025 · $124k · revenue +51%
WS
WATER STREET GLASSWORKS
6× · 2020–2025 · $96k · revenue +28%

Funded once

AA
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS
one grant, 2017 · $8k
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THE ROSENBACH OF THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIAgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +69%
AW
ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE
one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -22%

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.

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…

International

Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

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Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment

World Federalist Association

Educate and advocate for a democratic federation of nations with enforceable world law to: abolish war and global violence in the resolution of disputes; protect universal human rights and freedoms; and restore and sustain our global…

International

Natural Resources Defense Council Inc

We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…

Environment

The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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National Forest Foundation

The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…

Recreation & Sports

Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wilderness Society; the most unlike its peers is Water Street Glassworks. 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

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 41 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/30

Grantees still filing

22/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$460,000Other$294,039Education$123,500Food & Nutrition$81,000Environment$40,000Crime & Legal$18,326Recreation & Sports$17,780

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Marin Community FoundationCA12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Helen Keeler Burke Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen Keeler Burke Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home