· Private foundation
The Bourke Foundation
Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- $10k–50k11 grants · $265k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $475k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BON SECOURS NOAH'S CHILDREN FUND | $100,000 |
| ASK CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| IGNITE CAMPAIGN - SAINT BRIDGET SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| PARAMOUNT THEATRE | $50,000 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| SCOTTISH RITE CHILDHOOD LANGUAGE CENTER | $29,849 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER VIRGINIA | $25,000 |
| SAINT GERTRUDE HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| RICHMOND SPCA | $25,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| PIEDMONT CASA | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF RICHMOND | $25,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS VIRGINIA | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 70% of your 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.
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.
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 mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Pediatric specialists of virginia's (psv) charitable mission is to meet the pediatric specialist staffing needs of inova and children's national medical center (cnmc) and to provide pediatric specialist consults to pediatric patients as…
The organization guides the community's children through life's critical moments with trauma-informed mental health and child development services. it believes that all children can be safe, happy, healthy and ready to learn.
Vcu health children's services at brook road (csbr), fka crippled children's hospital, is a resource and provider of specialized medical services customized to meet the specific needs of children and their families.
Dedicated to the mission of providing the best possible care and services for all children who come to us because of sickness and injury.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…
Chip of virginia administers and monitors a network of 7 agencies in 27 virginia localities who work with low-income families to assure that children from birth to age 6 receive the health care necessary for them to lead healthy lives,…
To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Greater Virginia and the most unlike its peers is The Paramount Theater Foundation in F/K/a the Paramount Theater Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 17 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 ASK CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDHOOD LANGUAGE CENTER AT RICHMOND INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds Children's Museum of Richmond ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT CASA INC ↗
- Who funds DOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds TUCKAHOE VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD 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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 The Bourke Foundation 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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.